Earlier this month, NVIDIA released their new powerhouse card, the GeForce GTX 580. ASUS has sent us their GTX 580 to put through our strenuous suite of testing. The reference design used by ASUS was somewhat surprising as they will typically use their own custom PCB. The GTX 580 is supposed to bring improvements in power consumption [...]

Not just another pretty face? ASUSTeK is the most prolific motherboard manufacturer in the world. They command 40% of the motherboard market for PCs today. Their motherboards are in all manner of PCs from ASUS designed and sold PCs, as well as larger builders like HP and Dell, to the enthusiast user who purchases components [...]

I bought a Asus P6X58D Premium back in July of this year and It seems as if it would be a great little board if it would work like it is supposed to work. It has all the features that people are looking for these days including (but not limited to)  SATA III, USB 3.0, [...]

Introduction: The HTPC market is different things to many people. Some require bleeding edge gaming on their 50″ LED TV, while others demand a quiet and efficient streaming box that is capable of decoding all formats of video smoothly with rudimentary gaming ability being a plus, not a necessity. The latter of these two groups [...]

Introduction the Rampage III Extreme In 2006 ASUS® started Republic of Gamers (ROG) to provide quality components and maximum performance to gamers and power users.   ROG caters to the hard core gamers as well as the overclocking community.  Whether users are overclocking on air, water or even using extreme cooling such as liquid nitrogen, the [...]

Introduction: A motherboard is probably the single most important component to the enthusiast. For a person in the know, this is pretty obvious, but for a newer user this may come as new information. Many forums as well as review sites fail to reveal the big picture, and there are a plethora of components used [...]

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After seeing plenty of topics in various tech forums regarding the decision between the GTX480 or the HD5870, we figured it was time to chime in on the debate. With support from ASUS allowing us to review these two cards, the ENGTX480 and EAH5870, we have all of the information we need for this stand [...]