Micro-Star International (MSI) showed off 13 motherboards and four graphics cards made to be used with Nvidia’s scalable link interface (SLI) technology, for better gaming performance.SLI enables users to connect two or four Nvidia graphics-processing units together for improved picture quality and multimedia performance.Introduced at last week’s Computex IT show in Taipei, the multimedia NX7950GX2 is a monstrous card that comes equipped with two graphics processors on board. Connect two of these graphics cards together and you get Quad SLI, four graphics processors firing away at once to ensure top picture quality with the latest animation and 3-D visual effects.It also can hold up to 1GB of double data rate, third generation memory that runs at 1200MHz, for faster processing. It’s MSI’s latest, most powerful graphics card. And it doesn’t come cheap. For a card like this, MSI says the street price is around 23,000 new Taiwan dollars (US$708). The card was designed for gamers, and is compatible with Microsoft Windows Vista.Another graphics card the company was showing off is a concept card not yet in production. The Geminium GO is MSI’s first upgradeable graphics card, allowing users to change out an old graphics processor for a new one. It’s also made to support two Nvidia graphics processors on one board. The company made this card smaller by combining a desktop card with a graphics processor on one side, to a laptop card with a graphics processor on the other. Several of the motherboards MSI showed off at Computex were made for Intel’s latest processor, including one for use with the 975X express chipset and two with P965 express chipsets. Two of its motherboards support Advanced Micro Device’s latest Athlon 64 FX or X2 central processors, which work with DDR2 (second-generation) memory chips, as well as Nvidia graphics chips optimized for SLI.-Dan Nystedt, IDG News Service (Taipei Bureau)Check out our CIO News Alerts and Tech Informer pages for more updated news coverage. Related content feature 13 essential skills for accelerating digital transformation IT leaders too often find themselves behind on business-critical transformation efforts due to gaps in the technical, leadership, and business skills necessary to execute and drive change. By Stephanie Overby Jun 05, 2023 12 mins Digital Transformation IT Skills tip 3 things CIOs must do now to accurately hit net-zero targets More than a third of the world’s largest companies are making their net-zero targets public, yet nearly all will fail to hit them if they don’t double the pace of emissions reduction by 2030. This puts leading executives, CIOs in particul By Diana Bersohn and Mauricio Bermudez-Neubauer Jun 05, 2023 5 mins CIO Accenture Emerging Technology case study Merck Life Sciences banks on RPA to streamline regulatory compliance Automated bots assisted in compliance, thereby enabling the company to increase revenue and save precious human hours, freeing up staff for higher-level tasks. By Yashvendra Singh Jun 05, 2023 5 mins Digital Transformation Robotic Process Automation feature Expedia poised to take flight with generative AI CTO Rathi Murthy sees the online travel service’s vast troves of data and AI expertise fueling a two-pronged transformation strategy aimed at growing the company by bringing more of the travel industry online. By Paula Rooney Jun 02, 2023 7 mins Travel and Hospitality Industry Digital Transformation Artificial Intelligence Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe