Asus
Asus this week has become the latest PC video card manufacturer to announce a sub-75W video card based on NVIDIA's recently-released low-power GeForce RTX 3050 6GB design. And going one step further for small form factor PC owners, Asus has used NVIDIA's low-power GPU configuration to produce a half-height video card that can fit into low-profile systems. As Asus puts it, the GeForce RTX 3050 LP BRK 6GB GDDR6 is a 'big productivity in a small package' and for a low-profile dual-slot graphics board, it indeed is. The unit has three display outputs, including a DVI-D, HDMI 2.1, and DisplayPort 1.4a with HDCP 2.3 support, which makes the graphics card s viable option both for a a dual-display desktop and a home theater PC (Nvidia's...
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The proliferation of mobile devices, multi-computer homes, broadband internet access, inexpensive mass storage, and the replacement of many other home electronics by the PC (such as media devices like...
152 by Zach Throckmorton on 9/4/2011Intel Announces Ultrabook Fund, $300M to Kick off Innovation
At this year's Computex Intel announced a "new" category of notebook computer designed to further blur the lines between traditional notebooks and tablets: the Ultrabook. Requirements for an Ultrabook...
10 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/10/2011Android 3.2 on the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer: Tested
Back in June, Google announced that Android 3.2 would be arriving beginning this summer for Honeycomb tablets. Motorola, being Google's launch partner for Honeycomb, was first to get the...
30 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/3/2011Asus Bringing Android 3.2 To Eee Pad Transformers Tomorrow
We're still not sure whether the rumored performance upgrades are baked into Android's latest tablet iteration but we're glad to hear that updates seem to be rolling in quite...
8 by Jason Inofuentes on 7/27/2011The Summer of Honeycomb, Part 2: Win an ASUS Eee Pad Transformer
Want to know if you're the winner of our first Summer of Honeycomb giveaway? Congrats to AnandTech reader jdobratz for winning our first Eee Pad Transformer. Be sure to...
2046 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/17/2011Fusion E-350 Review: ASUS E35M1-I Deluxe, ECS HDC-I and Zotac FUSION350-A-E
Despite what you could buy many years ago for more than a thousand dollars, you can now get the same performance in a motherboard/CPU combo for under $200. ...
67 by Ian Cutress on 7/14/2011The Summer of Honeycomb, Part 1: Win an ASUS Eee Pad Transformer
We're all out of memory, congrats to AnandTech reader raimondi1337 for winning our last giveaway of 16GB of G.Skill DDR3-2133 memory. Be sure to respond to my email to...
4181 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/8/2011WarFactory Sentinel: Gaming on a Grand
Getting the monster gaming machines from boutiques in house for testing is often at least interesting if for no other reason than to see just how fast a computer...
37 by Dustin Sklavos on 6/8/2011Computex 2011: The ROG Releases
This week at Computex, along with the ASUS announcement of the Padfone, the UX series, and the $199 MeeGo netbook, we also have had a glimpse into what the...
17 by Ian Cutress on 6/3/2011Computex 2011: Danshui Bay Concept Motherboard
ASUS have been coming to Computex to sensationalize and dazzle the press with concepts for years, and this year is no different, regardless of whether something is technically feasible...
53 by Ian Cutress on 6/3/2011Computex 2011: Battle of the 600W GPUs
It wouldn’t be a trade show without a little bit of extreme thinking, to grab some headlines and show the punters how creative their engineers are. As part...
13 by Ian Cutress on 5/31/2011Computex 2011: Up Close with ASUS UX Series with SanDisk's U100 SSD
I met with SanDisk earlier today and to my surprise they had an ASUS UX Ultrabook in their meeting room. It turns out that at least one model in...
13 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/31/2011ASUS ET2700 All-In-One: Taking A Crack At the 27" iMac
Rounding out Asus’s Computex 2011 day one announcements is the ET2700, the company’s first 27 inch all-in-one PC. The prototype had previously been on display at CeBIT, but it’s getting...
40 by Ryan Smith on 5/30/2011ASUS 2011 UX Series: Ultra Thin and Light Sandy Bridge
ASUS just unveiled its 2011 UX Series, which looks a lot like a MacBook Air: p.p1 span.s1 The new UX comes with a 6Gbps SATA SSD, although ASUS didn’t...
23 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/30/2011The ASUS Padfone: A Smartphone That Docks into a Tablet
A number of you have asked for this innovation over the past few months: a smartphone that docks into a tablet. Given that the two platforms generally share the...
26 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/30/2011ASUS Eee PC X101: Running MeeGo, Windows Optional - Starting at $199
It wouldn't be Computex without another Eee PC announcement and today's is a big one. ASUS officially introduced the next-generation of Eee PC, the X101: The X101 weighs...
10 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/30/2011Android 3.1 on the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer
I ran into a number of hiccups in my review of the Eee Pad Transformer last month. Some of the issues were of course due to the early nature...
43 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/28/2011NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 560: The Top To Bottom Factory Overclock
NVIDIA’s GF104 and GF114 GPUs have been a solid success for the company so far. 10 months after GF104 launched the GTX 460 series, NVIDIA has slowly been supplementing...
66 by Ryan Smith on 5/17/2011ASUS P8Z68-V PRO Review: Our First Z68 Motherboard
ASUS P8Z68-V PRO: Friend or Foe? Yet another 6-series chipset is upon us from Intel. In terms of just consumer level desktop Cougar Point chipsets, this makes the seventh on...
99 by Ian Cutress on 5/11/2011ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Review
ASUS was at the forefront of the netbook revolution thanks to its close partnerships with Intel and Microsoft. ASUS has been all but absent from the smartphone and tablet...
128 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/21/2011