If there's one reason to hate those guys from VR-Zone, that's the fact some of them are now rollin' around a lot of hot pieces of hardware at Computex Taipei these days, and you can understand what you want from "hardware." As a first example, take the image below... but leaving this aside, there are a lot of other things to see there. After all, hot chicks are the salt and pepper of Computex, but the "main dish"...that's a completely different thing!


The first edition of Computex Taipei, also known as the Taipei International Information Technology Show took place back in 1981, when small and medium sized businesses in Taiwan got together to display their latest products, but since early 1990s, it really took off, becoming the second largest computer expo in the world today, after CeBIT. This year's edition just took off, and it is expected to last until the 7th of June, but leaving girls aside, here's a quick overview of what you should see there...

Asus tries to bring ultimate audio into our houses, apart from doing what they do best - motherboards, videocards, monitors, and all the rest. At Computex, you should go and see the latest Xonar cards, as well as the Asus chicks, of course!


Abit, once known as an exclusivist motherboard producer, now seems to push its brand name slowly into the consumer electronics market, since they have announced a digital photo frame with a built-in printer. I would really like to see that up close and personal, but anyway - if you're one of their older fans, don't despair! There are still enough Abit motherboards around, including high-end models, as we've been used to see so far from this excellent company.


There are a lot of interesting things to see from MSI, apart from the chicks present at the company's booth. A must see is the Atom mini-ITX motherboard which is being shipped as part of the barebone Wind system, as well as the MSI 9600 Hybrid Freezer videocard, with "semi-passive" cooling.


Apart from having its own Atom mini-ITX board ready, Gigabye also arrived at Computex with a interesting silent cooling solution for video cards, which you can see in the image above. Claiming that this passive cooling system "cools better than the standard Nvidia solution" is a very courageous thing to do, and I can only hope the Gigabyte GeForce 9600 GT Dual Core card can live up to these expectations.

As I said, these were only a few highlights. If you're in Taiwan or somewhere near, you should definitely go and check Computex Taipei, you have no excuse to miss it!