Did you know that you can wirelessly stream PC games to your television?...
Can you connect a PC to your TV without wires? There’s enough interesting display technologies around now that stream video directly from a graphics card onto a TV screen over the air, and when...
View ArticleASUS demos glasses-free 3D gaming laptop
To 3D or not 3D, that is most definitely the question which we’re finding ourselves asked every time we wander in to a shop to buy a new monitor or laptop. If your objection to stereoscopic gaming is...
View ArticleASUS launches noise cancelling gaming headset
Not only is it a tedious bore, the real world can be such an unnecessary distraction when trying to listen for footsteps coming around the corner or place that last block on a Minecraft masterpiece....
View ArticleAre ultrabooks the future of PC gaming?
How powerful does a laptop need to be? It’s a pertinent question. Last week Razer unveiled a laptop it proclaimed the “saviour of PC gaming”. But the big laptop news is that we’re about to be deluged...
View ArticlePC market still growing. Lenovo more than others
Market research companies IDC and Gartner have released their quarterly report on PC sales. Amusingly, on the day that we’re supposed to be entering the post-PC era with the launch of Apple’s iOS 5,...
View ArticleWin a state of the art ASUS Z77 series motherboard
Asus have just released their Z77 series of motherboards, and they’re giving a bunch away to celebrate. You stand a chance to win one of three varieties. The first prize is the ROG Maximus V Gene, is...
View ArticleThunderbolt motherboards on their way
Just 15 months after the technology first appeared in a commercial form, ASUS and MSI have finally announced the first PC motherboards that will ship with built in Thunderbolt ports. Thunderbolt, if...
View ArticleASUS unveils first Wireless ac laptop
Over at Computex in Taiwan, ASUS has has been showing off the world’s first laptop equipped with 802.11ac wireless networking, the next iteration in the WiFi standard that theoretically promises up to...
View ArticlePC Gaming Alliance contest carries Intel Ultrabook grand prize
The PC Gaming Alliance, a non-profit group composed of influential hardware and software developers such as Intel and Epic, revealed today its Game United Contest and asked for entrants to record a...
View ArticleAsus unveils the RoG ARES II multi-GPU behemoth. Quake, mortals.
AMD has shown reluctance to release their own-brand HD 7000 range dual-GPU card, leaving affiliate manufacturers like Asus, Club3D and HIS to cobble together their own polygon-crunching beasts. As a...
View ArticleAsus SSD announced with RAIDR high-speed PCIe interface
Taiwanese manufacturing mogul, Asus, are aiming their Republic of Gamers sub-brand squarely at the performance SSD arena by announcing its very own PCI-Express solid state drive. Well, it’s kind of a...
View ArticleAsus GTX 650-E unveiled – a graphics card for the low-wattage generation
This is the new Asus GTX 650-E, a low-power graphics card that takes all the juice it needs from your motherboard, without the need for a secondary power connector from the PSU itself. That means even...
View ArticleAsus Transformer AiO: an 18.4 inch Android tablet that turns into a PC. Don’t...
Has anyone in the history of computing ever wanted an 18.4-inch Android tablet? How about an 18.4-inch Android tablet that transforms into a dumb 18.4-inch display the moment you dock it into its...
View ArticleAsus tease Gryphon and Z87-deluxe motherboards, will support Intel Haswell CPUs
Asus have dropped a few teaser images of their upcoming Gryphon and Z87-Deluxe motherboards on the Republic of Gamers minisite. The Z87 motherboards will house Intel’s 4th Generation Haswell Core...
View ArticleAsus GTX 670 DirectCU Mini: pint-sized without compromise?
Asus have unveiled their latest effort to squeeze performance components into a miniscule form factor. The diminutive GTX 670 DirectCU Mini has just landed on my desk and what they say is true; size...
View ArticleAsus GTX 670 DirectCU Mini review
I really, really want to love this diminutive new card from Asus. It’s fantastically well engineered and at once quicker, quieter and cooler than the reference design card from Nvidia itself. It also...
View ArticleAsus Xonar U7 and Phoebus Solo revealed: external and internal soundcards for...
Whether you’re eager to dig around the insides of your PC or whether the mere sight of a screwdriver fills you with unearthly terror, Asus has got some seriously high-end soundcards for you. They’ve...
View ArticleAsus to bring RoG goodness down to the mainstream with a Z87-based Hero
The new 4th Gen Core processors from Intel are set to touch down around Computex time next month and in preparation Asus have announced their full line-up of Z87 motherboards. Along with a new range...
View ArticleAsus are taking orders for 4K monitors, if you have $3,500 handy
Got three and a half thousand bucks weighing down your coin purse? There are lots of ways to lose it. Charitable contribution, perhaps, treating loved ones, paying off debts OR, if you want a sharp...
View Article4K gaming: early benchmarks reveal the rigs we’ll need to play at...
With Asus announcing pre-orders for their PQ321Q 4K PC monitor – at a wallet-sweating $3,500 – just how prepared are our rigs for 4K gaming? The answer, coming out of a quick benchmark test over at...
View ArticleAsus unlocks overclocking on lower-end Haswell motherboards
Asus seem to be losing ground to their motherboard rivals, Intel at the moment, but they’ve sniped back at Intel’s imposed restrictions on CPU overclocking. If you have any Asus 8-series mobo for the...
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