Its that time of the year again when we pack our backs and head east to the greatest computer components show on earth- Computex. This year, the focus is on three things- AM2 motherboards, Conroe/Core2 motherboards and the 7950 quad SLI capable GPU from nVidia. Almost all the component manufacturers are showing one or more of these products at their booths so lets find out what we saw today. this year, we'll let the pictures do the talking by placing captions on what we saw.

We started off with Epox who have introduced their new line-up called Optimus targetted at gamers

Epox's ATI x3200 chipset AM2 board	Epox's nForce 590 chipset based AM2 board

Epox's Intel 965 chipset based Core 2 board	Super Spy Pic- nVidia's upcoming integrated video chipset board for AM2

Our next stop was at DFI

DFI's recently released x3200 motherboard	DFI's highly anticipated upcoming nForce 590 motherboard

Teaching an old dog new tricks: DFI changes their nF4 boards to AM2 platform	DFI's 975X based board for the Core2 platform

We quickly peaked at Shuttle's booth before heading over to ASUS- more on Shuttle another day.

The new Shuttle chassis- looks good	The new Shuttle form factor- we werent that impressed.