You are paying an extra $160 for a sicker, yes a sticker! Two of the exact same graphics cards, made by the exact same manufacturer, in the exact same factory are priced $160 apart. The only difference between the two is that one has an AREZ stick on it and the other has an ROG sticker on it. This is all caused by NVIDIA's GeForce Partner Program.
At Computex ASUS has been showing a lot of new products, one of them is their new Republic of Gamers (ROG) Thor 1200W Platinum Power Supply. This 1200W unit is said to be made by Seasonic, based on their Prime Platinum platform. While ASUS was showing off the 1200W version, it will be delivered in an 850W version as well.
Back in November 2017 Razer sort of shocked the mobile world by releasing their own phone, which was aimed towards mobile gamers. It looks like ASUS is getting into the game as they have just announced the ROG Gaming Phone. ASUS seems to be pulling out all of the stops with this new smartphone.
ASUS has just introduced one of its first crypto-currency mining motherboards based on Intel's 300-series chipset platform. This is great news for miners as cheaper Pentium Gold and Celeron processors for this platform are now available. The board is the H370 Mining Master and will put out 20 PCI-Express gen 3.0 lanes as x1 slots.
ASUS has just introduced the Republic of Gamers (ROG) Aura Terminal. This is an RGB LED control terminal that gives you four addressable RGB LED channels. The box will plug into one of your motherboard's USB 2.0 headers and will interface with ASUS Aura Sync RGB software.
ASUS today has just introduced their Republic of Gamers (ROG) Swift PG27UQ gaming monitor. This 27-inch monitor features a Ultra HD 4K (3840 x 2160) resolution, 144 Hz refresh rate, and NVIDIA G-SYNC HDR.
In this episode of our weekly tech podcast we talk about Corsair's wireless mechanical gaming keyboard, NVIDIA hopefully announcing a new graphics card soon, the GPP and AREZ brand, new cases from NZXT and more!
Now many of the major brands we know did sign up for the program and were forced to remove AMD graphics cards from their website and in turn from their gaming lines. One of these companies was ASUS, which removed AMD-based cards from their very popular Republic of Gamers (ROG) line. With that ASUS created a new line for AMD cards called AREZ.
We've been waiting for new gaming displays that offer 4K resolution, a 144 Hz refresh rate, and possibly NVIDIA G-Sync technology. Well it looks like we are getting closer to a real release of one of these displays, the ASUS ROG Swift PG27UQ.
In this episode of our weekly tech podcast we talk about our reviews of the Tesoro GRAM XS Keyboard and the KitSound Voice One Smart Speaker, the new 2000-series Ryzen processors, a very small eGPU, ASUS's new AREZ brand and more!
