ASUS

March 9th, 2011

ASUS M4A88TD-M/USB3 & M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 AM3 Motherboards Review

AMD has made it a point of marketing to concentrate upon adding value to certain price segments and their supporting motherboard manufacturers have really caught on.  Today we will be taking a look at two products which take this mantra to heart:  the sub-$110 ASUS M4A88TD-M/USB3 and M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3.  Both use the 880G/SB850 chipset combination [...]

February 7th, 2011

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti Roundup: ASUS, EVGA, Gigabyte & MSI

When it was originally released  a few weeks ago, NVIDIA’s GTX 560 Ti impressed us with its excellent performance coupled with a highly accessible price.  NVIDIA’s board partners have been quick to offer up some of their own custom overclocked versions and in this roundup we take a closer look at four such cards from [...]

November 29th, 2010

ASUS Xonar Xense 7.1 Premium Gaming Audio Set Review

ASUS hasn’t been in the PC audio market for all that long but in a short amount of time, they have gained the respect of many hard to please audio aficionados.  Their latest creation is the Xense 7.1; an all-in-one solution that incorporates a sound card and a set of specially modified Sennheiser headphones.  The [...]

November 15th, 2010

Overclocking the ASUS GTX 580 Voltage Tweak Edition

In our original review of the GTX 580, we found it to be a ready and willing overclocker which we could push quite far above its reference clock speeds.   To explore the limits of these cards a bit further, in this article we take the ASUS Voltage Tweak Edition out for a run around [...]

November 14th, 2010

ASUS P67 ‘Sandy Bridge’ Motherboards Preview

Many have heard rumors of Intel’s upcoming Sandy Bridge architecture and the motherboards which are sure to accompany any upcoming products.  Naturally, motherboard manufacturers are well on their way towards releasing supporting designs and in this article we take a quick look at some of ASUS’ offerings.

November 3rd, 2010

Asus Sandy Bridge P67 Motherboards Spotted

Motherboards from the Asus line of Sandy-Bridge, P67 chipset were shown off in Europe this week; the ROG Maximus IV Extreme, TUF Sabertooth P67, P8P67 Deluxe and P8P67. The Maximus IV Formula is slated to handle absolute everything that could possibly be thrown at it, sporting 4 x PCIe 2.0 x16 slots, allowing for 3/4-way [...]

September 12th, 2010

ASUS GeForce GTS 450 1GB DirectCU TOP Review

ASUS isn’t all that well known for releasing completely over-engineered cards on the day of launch but this time they are doing things differently.  Their GTS 450 1GB DirectCU TOP edition is a completely custom product from bottom to top and it even includes some blisteringly high clock speeds as well.  The price?  $139, only [...]

September 8th, 2010

ASUS Radeon HD 5850 1GB DirectCu TOP Review

The HD 5850 may be getting on a bit in terms of age but this hasn’t stopped ATI’s board partners from fine tuning the design.  ASUS has now released their DirectCU TOP version that aims to simply be one of the best HD 5850 card available but in such a cluttered market, it will really [...]

August 13th, 2010

Asus Releases Details and Pricing on EEE Pads and Tablet

Asus CEO Jerry Shen released details about the much anticipated line of Asus EEE Pads including some key points on features and pricing. The company intends to offer the device in a few different flavours, including the 10-inch ASUS Eee Pad EP101TC which dumped Windows 7 Embedded Compact for Android 3.0; expected in March 2011 [...]

August 6th, 2010

Asus Announces RoG Rampage III Formula Motherboard

ASUS is proud to present the next evolution in the Republic of Gamers (ROG) product lineup. The new Rampage III Formula motherboard delivers both stunning looks and performance based on the Intel X58 chipset. Designed for uncompromised gaming performance, the Rampage III Formula features NVIDIA 3-way SLI and ATI CrossFire X support, true USB 3.0 [...]