Xbox buttoned up in black
Two versions, one secret handshake with Vole
Images from certification agencies have prematurely unboxed the Asus ROG Ally 2. The surprise is that one of them appears to be Vole's long-rumoured Xbox handheld.
ASUS unveils Doom Edition RTX 5080 ROG Astral graphics card
More expensive version of the ROG Astral
ASUS has partnered up with Bethesda and ID Software to unveil a special edition of its Geforce RTX 5080 ROG Astral graphics card, the Doom Edition. This limited edition version will get the Doom design with gold accents and be bundled with several goodies.
AMD 9800X3D chips under fire
Flaming expensive
More than 100 AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D chips have reportedly gone belly-up, most of them when nestled in ASRock motherboards.
Gigabyte mocks Asus
EZ Latch Plus doesn’t mangle your motherboard
Gigabyte has thrown some serious shade at Asus with a new video flexing its EZ Latch Plus mechanism—showing a GPU being installed and removed a hundred times without any damage to the motherboard’s PCIe slot.
AMD ditches reference design for Radeon RX 9070 board makers
Partners will have full control
AMD has scraped its reference design for the upcoming Radeon RX 9070 series, leaving board partners like ASUS, XFX, and Sapphire to take the reins.
ASUS announces new ROG Phone 9 FE smartphone
Less expensive version with Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip
ASUS has officially announced its less expensive version of the ROG Phone 9, the ROG Phone 9 FE, which will use the Qualcomm Snapdragon Gen 3 SoC, while the rest of the specifications remain the same.
ASUS details TUF and PRIME series Radeon RX 9700 graphics cards
Confirms 16GB of VRAM for both RX 9700 XT and non-XT
ASUS has detailed the upcoming Radeon RX 9700 series graphics cards, including TUF and PRIME series versions, that will launch as soon as AMD gives the green light, confirming the RDNA 4 architecture and 16GB of VRAM for both the Radeon RX 9700 XT and the Radeon RX 9700.
AMD and ASUS patch inter-core latency issues in Strix Point APUs
New BIOS Update
ASUS and AMD have announced a solution to the longstanding issue of inter-core latency in the new Strix Point APUs.
G.SKILL and ASUS break DDR5 frequency overclocking world record
Hits DDR5-12112
G.SKILL has announced that it managed to set a new overclocking world record for DDR5 memory frequency, reaching a rather impressive DDR5-12112 frequency.
ASUS ProArt Display 5K PA27JCV to be available in early-November
27-inch 5K monitor with 218ppi, HDR10, DisplayHDR 500, and more
ASUS has announced that its ProArt Display 5K PA27JCV, a 5K (5120 x 2880) monitor with 218 pixels per inch (ppi), 99% of the DCI-P3 color gamut coverage, HDR10 and VESA DisplayHDR 500 support, built-in Auto KVM, and all the bells and whistles when it comes to connectivity, will be available in early-November at $799 MSRP.