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ASUS Announces ROG Strix & ASUS Dual AMD Radeon RX 7600 Graphics Cards

NOTE: This is a press release. It presented exactly as the company released it with no editing by SFF.N. While we at SFF.N try avoid using direct press releases for our news coverage, there are instances when doing so is necessary due to time constraints. — ASUS today announced the ROG Strix AMD Radeon RX 7600, ASUS Dual AMD Radeon RX 7600 and ASUS Dual AMD Radeon RX 7600 V2 graphics cards, which are designed to strike the perfect balance between affordability and gaming power, with stunning visuals and fluid performance. Key generation-over-generation upgrades make the ROG Strix AMD Radeon …
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Asus Releases Statement Regarding BIOS Updates and Warranty Coverage

  Asus has released an official statement regarding the highly controversial BIOS updates they released to attempt to resolve their motherboards causing Ryzen 7000 series processors to overvolt and turn into Gamers Nexus videos. Unfortunately for users, the previous fixes voided their motherboard warranty. Let’s look at the statement.     Oops..sorry. Wrong statement. Not sure how I mixed those up… Here is Asus’ statement: 2023/05/15 We want to address the concerns that have been raised by our users about whether recent BIOS updates will impact the warranty of ASUS AM5 motherboards. We would like to reassure our customers that …
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ETA Prime Tests Asus ROG Ally Emulation Performance and It’s Excellent

  ETA Prime has taken a deep dive into the performance of the of the Asus ROG Ally in emulation. The performance is excellent even with the ROG Ally emulating Playstation 3 at 60FPS in God of War 3. It does draw more power for that game then it would for other system, however that level of performance is excellent. Check out his video below, and make sure you subscribe.  
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ETA Prime Reviews Asus ROG ALLY Hand-Held PC

  ETA Prime has gotten his hands on the new $699 (US) Asus ROG ALLY. This handheld PC is meant to compete directly with the SteamDeck, but has a lot more power. The system uses the AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme APU featuring eight Zen 4 cores with 16 threads, a 12CU RDNA3 Radeon iGPU, and 16GB of LPDDR5 at 6400MT. Storage is handled by a 2230 sized M.2 drive, and the system features a 7-inch 120Hz 1080P IPS display with FreeSync variable refresh rate. It uses Windows 11 as its OS of choice. Aside from the increased processing power, the …
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Asus Launches Mil-Spec ExpertCenter PN53 Ryzen 7000 Powered Mini-PC

  Asus has announced their latest mini-PC; the ExpertCenter PN53. It features a Ryzen 7000 series APU with Radeon 600M graphics, two M.2 PCIe 4.0 slots, and DDR5 memory. It can support up to four 4K monitors or a single 8K monitor, and Asus is claiming performance improvements of 34% and 29% in single and multi-threaded performance respectively. Asus is aiming this little unit at people who need enhanced durability, and have tested it to the MIL-STD-810H military-grade durability standard. However, to be very clear about this, there is not certification testing body for this standard. Asus itself says the …
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Asus GeForce RTX 4080 Noctua OC Costs as Much as RTX 4090

  Do you have $1,650 US Dollars to spend on a GPU? Neither do I. However, for those that want to pay RTX 4090 prices for an RTX 4080 you can now buy the 4-Slot  Asus RTX 4080 Noctua OC. I’m not going to list this as a news post because there is absolutely no way I can keep opinion out of this overpriced owl face. Look, I like Noctua. I really do. The L9 series coolers have been my go-to for SFF cooling. Their fans are top notch. Even the huge NH-D15 is worth the money at $109 it …
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ASUS Announces the GeForce RTX 4080 Noctua Edition Graphics Card

Press Release: When an article is marked as such, it is posted verbatim from a Manufacturer’s text, and does not reflect the views or opinions of SFF.Network. ASUS today announced the GeForce RTX 4080 Noctua Edition graphics card, a continuation of its collaboration with the legendary cooling company, building on the previous GeForce RTX 3070 and RTX 3080 Noctua variants. This year ASUS and Noctua have worked together to tame the power of the mighty GeForce RTX 4080 graphics card. Noctua fan-design prowess and an ASUS custom-built vapor chamber combine to create the quietest air-cooled RTX 4080 on the market. …