ASUS has finally decided to officially announce its ROG XG Station. Back when it was first introduced and showcased, the XG Station was packing a Geforce 7900GS, but today when it is officially announced, the new ROG XG Station packs a bit more punch with Geforce 8600GT with 256MB of memory.

ROG XG Station has a rather attractive black case with an LCD that shows real time info about GPU frequency, temperature, fan speed and current FPS number. The new XG Station comes with dual PCI-Express x1 slots, which theoretically support SLI. With PCI-E x1 slots SLI will probably end up highly crippled, so it will probably stay as a theoretical solution.

As we already mentioned, this external graphics card should pack a decent punch with the Geforce 8600GT inside. The card runs at 540MHz for the GPU and comes with 256MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 700MHz (1.4GHz effective). According to Asus's press release, the ROG XG station should end up to be up to 6.7 times more powerful than Intel's 965GM integrated graphics solution.

The XG Station packs two DVI ports, one TV-Out and even two USB ports. According to the rumors, this one should end up priced at €349 in Europe. All we need now is the release date, and some benchmarks. We doubt that Asus will miss the chance to promote this one on this year's Computex show.

Still, the fact that it is huge and bulky, not to mention the price, might prove to be a problem.