Asus revealed its new docking station entitled ROG XG Station today, which translates to Republic of Gamer XG Station. People worldwide are scratching their heads what the 'XG' means, but that's a different topic.

Punters who bought a notebook thinking that the Intel graphics chip would be able to run Crysis and Stalker can hook their graphically challenged laptops up to the docking station using the Express Card slot. The docking station will channel everything through its innards and feed it to a second, external monitor, which means one also has to buy a new LCD display to have fun.

The ROG packs an Nvidia 8600GT graphics card with 256 megabytes memory, 4 USB 2.0 ports and a spews forth Dolby Digital Live sound. It also received a Reddot Design Award Honourable Mention, which certainly must be a selling point. The unit's big LED screen shows such interesting things as GPU temperature, master volume, frames per second, GPU fan speed and the scale of one's idiocy for buying a notebook with Intel graphics on board and having to shell out more money for Asus' new external unit and an external monitor.

Apparently, the unit provides one regular PCI Express slot so anyone not happy with the 8600GT can upgrade it. Asus uttered that lab experiments on terror stricken notebooks packing Intel 945GM and 965GM graphics showed a 12 and 6.7 times better performance respectively. X