Asus announces board with support for NVIDIA's physics card

While announcing their newest motherboard, the P5N32-SLI Premium/WiFi-AP, Asus accidentally explained the reason behind three PCI Express slots: an NVIDIA physics card. Both ATI and NVIDIA have been working for some time with Havok studios in search of a physics rendering solution. Havok is well known for creating physics engines for games like Half Life 2. The Asus board is designed to run a physics card alongside with Quad-SLI, and was built with the NVIDIA Nforce 590 chipset. The board is compatible with Core 2 Duo and has 4 DIMM slots for DDR2 533/667/800.