ASUS, one of the largest makers of motherboards, has announced the launch of its factory-overclocked GeForce GTX 500 series DirectX 11 graphics cards - the GTX 580 and GTX 570.

These feature the pinnacle of Nvidia GF110 Fermi technology, using lower power draw to deliver more performance. They are also excellent overclockers, allowing ASUS exclusive Voltage Tweak technology to go even further, giving users access to potential 50 per cent core clock boosts, said an ASUS statement.

The GeForce GTX 570 is the newest addition to the GTX 500 lineup, overclocked to 742MHz on the GPU core. It also features 480 Cuda cores with the Cuda clock at 1484MHz. The large 1.28GB GDDR5 video memory is set to 3.8GHz effective rate.

The extreme processing power of the ASUS Republic of Gamers Rampage III Extreme motherboard with three ASUS GeForce GTX 580 graphics cards was recently put to the test in a record-breaking endeavor, where this ultimate combination served up an incredible 3DMark03 score of 217252 marks.