Introduction ASUS has been bringing high quality components to the PC world for the past two decades. They are not slowing down and they continue to help lead the way to a faster, more effective and efficient tomorrow. Keeping with the tradition of quality and cutting edge innovation is no small task and like few [...]

Few people in the PC world, if any, aren’t familiar with Asustek Computer Inc., better know as Asus. The Taiwanese based company has been in existence since 1990, and as of 2011 is listed as the fifth largest PC vendor in the world. The company involves itself with many aspects of PC hardware which include [...]

Today, we have the ASUS GTX 570 DirectCU II, with a custom PCB design, that will be going onto our test bench to see how closely it performs to the marketing hype. The DirectCU line of cards from ASUS are catered to the overclockers out there in the market. The DirectCU has precision mounting, putting [...]

The Republic Of Gamers series gets a Z68 based microATX board with the Maximus IV GeneZ. Following the tradition of its forebears, Maximus signifies the best of the Intel lineups from ASUS and the Gene moniker tells us it is in microATX format. The Z indicates this is a Z68 based chipset and not a [...]

Today, we have the ASUS HD 6870 DirectCU, with a custom PCB design, that will be going onto our test bench to see how closely it performs to the marketing hype. The DirectCU line of cards from ASUS are catered to the overclockers out there in the market. The DirectCU has precision mounting, putting the [...]

In 2005, SilverStone created the Temjin TJ07, a tower chassis with unprecedented unibody construction and compartmentalized layout for an almost limitless liquid cooling configuration. Then in 2006, the Temjin TJ09 was released with classic styling and a see-through air duct designed for cooling. In 2008, they created the first retail computer chassis to implement 90 [...]

Introduction: The P8P67 PRO is one of the latest Cougar Point motherboards from ASUS for the LGA 1155 “Sandy Bridge” architecture. Targeted between the basic P8P67 and the Deluxe, the motherboard aims to bring nearly all of the power of the Deluxe, at a more modest price point. For a more detailed breakdown of the [...]

Reasoning For This: As Netbooks become more and more popular in our lives, it will be nice to know you can extend the Netbooks life longer with a few easy upgrades you can do yourself. Most Netbooks will come with 1GB of RAM, which in todays world or memory hogging applications, is an extremely minuscule [...]