This includes 2 awards for the P9X79 series Motherboards;

One Must Have award for the P9X79 Deluxe motherboard from Kit Guru who state ““Asus have a fantastic reputation for creating some of the finest motherboards available to the enthusiast audience. I have been very impressed with their latest P9X79 Deluxe motherboard since I started testing some time ago. The UEFI bios is fully featured, intuitive and capable of achieving some fantastic, stable, overclocked speeds.” Click here to read more

And 5/5 stars from Expert Reviews for the P9X79 Pro motherboard who state ““…… it’s fully loaded, easy to set up and let us perform fairly ambitious stable overclocks, so is a good buy nonetheless. “  Click here to read more

We have also won 3 awards for the Sabertooth X79 Motherboard.

The first is a recommended award from TechRadar who state “As X79 boards go, the Sabertooth is competitively priced, has all the crucial features and looks built to last” Click here to read more

The second is an innovation award from eTeknix who have said “If you’re after a board that offers rock-hard stability, reliability and offers the performance to match, all for a relatively low price point, we don’t think that you’ll be disappointed with the Sabertooth X79 motherboard from Asus.” Click here to read more

And lastly a performance award from Hexus who have stated;

“The Good,

- Lots of ASUS goodies,

- BIOS is the best in the business,

- Designed for overclocking” Click here to read more

The editor’s choice award from eTeknix.  Andy Ruffell from eTeknix states “ Overall, it’s a worthy board to be added into the Republic of Gamers product line-up and has huge potential behind it, and though we’ve looked quite extensively at the board, there are still a lot of areas that can be explored in further detail, and that’s exactly what we’re going to do. The Rampage IV Extreme has now earnt its right in our test bed lab and will be used for further testing as we explore further into X79 and the true potential behind the processors and chipset.” Click here to read more

The Diamond award from hardware heaven who state; “A pretty spectacular selection of components. Intel has, once again, excelled in producing a new platform. Backed by some great products form MSI and ASUS the X79/i7 range offers great benefits in productivity and gaming.” Click here to read more

The Must Have award from Kit Guru who state; “The Rampage IV Extreme Edition is going to find a home in many a high end enthusiast system, due to the ‘no compromises’ design ethic. The Republic Of Gamers products are a showcase range for ASUS and after using this for the last week we can see why. The UEFI bios is well engineered, cleanly organised and offers a wide array of processor tweaks to get the most from the machine.” Click here to read more

And the performance award from Overclock 3d who quote; “The ASUS Rampage IV Extreme is a Titan. We can’t think of anything we’d like on a motherboard it hasn’t got, apart from the ‘Back to BIOS’ button on the DX79SI. Performance is stunning in stock or overclocked trim. We’re sure other boards will come close for in performance the average user, but if you want a motherboard that will take you to the stratosphere and beyond, the Rampage IV Extreme is the one, and a winner of our OC3D Performance award.” Click here to read more

ASUS won Best Motherboard Manufacturer beating rivals Gigabyte and MSI. The article states that they were particularly pleased with the ASUS Maximum IV Gene-Z and have wrote a review on what they think of the product. Click here to read review

ASUS have also won best Graphics Manufacturer over both MSI and Sapphire in the reader voted awards and Best PC & Laptop Manufacturer where bit tech staff state, “third reader-voted award recognizes the company’s work in the manufacturing of whole PCs and laptops; an area in which the company has enjoyed enormous success thanks to the strength of the EEE brand.”

Other winners include Cooler master for Best case Manufacturer, Scan computers for best Retailer as well as corsair for best memory and best PSU manufacturer.

 To find out more about these awards click here

Andy Ruffell states; “This card offers so much more than what others do on the market currently and the main reason for that is that it’s made by Asus.” He then goes on to say, “They are always keen to break the boundaries, where others play it safe and that’s what gets people and enthusiasts talking and being honest with you, it’s an enthusiasts graphics card, so they can honestly say that the marketing team have done a good job in that department.”

In the review he comments what qualities the card has that has led to it winning the award; “With overclocking, the first key ingredient is the cooler of which Asus plumped for the fantastic and world acclaimed DirectCU II and in the process of bolting it on, gave it some steroids so that it takes up a whopping three slots, but who are we to judge if it keeps temperatures down and from our thermal tests, you can see it did exactly that whilst also maintaining low acoustics”

To read more Click here

This week we have also won 4/5 stars for the P8Z68-V motherboard from computer active.

Simon Crisp states; “Asus’s P8Z68-V is a well laid-out board and an attractive one too in its blue, black and grey finish with passive heatsinks keeping the chipset and power components cool,” he then goes onto say “Asus has provided plenty of support for the integrated graphics output: on the rear input/output socket panel there are VGA, DVI and HDMI ports.” To read more Click here

Our thermal engineers have developed exclusive DirectCU cooling technology, integrating direct-contact copper heat pipes that touch the GPU core for faster and more effective heat dissipation, and thus lower temperatures and better performance.

Our new Silent designs have been applied on the GT 430, GT 440, GTS 450 and HD 6670 previously, and now on the HD 6770 model.

The DirectX® 11-compatible ASUS HD 6770 DirectCU Silent features 800 stream processors and 40 texture units, plus 1GB of GDDR5 video memory. This means it is more than able to handle HD gaming with details and effects set to medium or higher, which was unheard of with previous silent cards.

Highlights of this product include;

• ASUS DirectCU Silent graphics cards are the coolest silent choice currently available. Totally quiet 0dB passive cooling creates a hushed usage environment and runs 16%* cooler than conventional passive cards, presenting unmitigated multimedia and gaming performance
• The heatsink on the HD 6770 DirectCU Silent offers up to 95%* larger surface area than its respective reference design for faster heat dissipation
• ASUS exclusive Super Alloy Power components offer a 15%* performance boost and 2.5* longer product lifespan
• The HD 6770 DirectCU Silent ships with 1GB of GDDR5 video memory to handle HD gaming in high detail and with most effects turned on.

In November issue of PC PRO , Sasha Muller Laptops Editor has stated; “The colour accuracy is stunning for such an affordable monitor. An average Delta E of 2.8 indicates that colours are accurate and true to life, and the maximum Delta E deviation of 5.8 only reinforces the Asus’ excellence.”  

It then goes onto say “With low power consumption allied with fine performance, this is an affordable monitor that won’t disappoint”

This monitor has been given the PC pro award over many others that were tested. These include the Iiyama E2273HDS-1 monitor, the LG IPS236V and the AOC e234372

It received a 6 star rating out of 6 for image quality, a 6 star rating for features and design and a 5 star rating out of 6 for value for money.

Read the full review here: http://www.vortez.co.uk/contentteller/articles_pages/asus_eah6850_directcu_review,1.html

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