welcome to the ASUS Booth so I know in my preview I said ASUS had a wide
variety of products here but I only showed like one motherboard no no no no
no they have more stuff than that ASUS is involved in everything from monitors
to allinone PCS notebooks tablets motherboards video cards networking even
cases I think although not really in North America so let's have a look at
what they got here number one they have a g53s so this is part of their gaming
series that is also uh populated by the
g74 which is the 17 or rather yeah the
17-in version this is the 15-in version these are I've actually done an unboxing
of a g53 at one point so these are super beefy gaming machines with huge cooling
vents at the back and basically the Republic of Gamers edition of what a
notebook would be next we've got the ASUS Transformer Pad TF300 so this is
kind of a lower cost version of the Transformer Prime it uses a plastic back
instead of the metal back and personally I actually prefer this I've talked about
the Galaxy Tab 10.1 how I like the plastic back because you don't worry
about scratching it or like staining it with your
fingerprints this makes sense to me uh right the mobile dock that goes
with it so the mobile dock adds not only a keyboard and additional expansion
including not that but ah USB as well as
an SD slot but it also adds additional battery life so when you dock you can
have up to to 15 hours of battery life between the battery that's in here and
the battery that's in here together it also has a touchpad which you can use to
navigate the Android OS that's on it finally the Zen book so the Zen book is
one that I actually did a full NCI Tech tips episode on and at that time the
Zenbook had a bit of a quirk where down
here the touchpad was non-responsive you can see with the latest Zenbook the
mouse cursor is moving can you see that the mouse cursor is moving even though
I'm touching all of the touchpad it continues to move just fine so the Zen
book the one problem that I might have had with it gone let's move around to
the other side of the
AC here we've got one of their all-in ones this is also something that I've
done video coverage of in the past although I had Windows 8 preview running
on it it looks like they've only got Windows 7 so my video is definitely
cooler from last time than this one but it's a pretty neat little all-in-one
machine it's on my CX Tech tips Chan
we've also got a couple of their uh of their high-end networking products
including a wireless router here as well as another other more different wireless
router here so this is the RT n66u Dark Knight this is a phenomenally popular
router at NC right now I actually don't know too much about it myself but I can
tell you we're selling a lot of them and they aren't coming back so that's as
strong an endorsement as there can be on the other side of the ASUS board our
board Booth we have their motherboard so we have everything from their ramp our
Republic of Gamers Maximus 5 Gene so this is basically all of the features
that you would find in a full-size ATX gaming machine except in a mini or Micro
ATX form factor so that is SLI and Crossfire compatible compatibility
awesome cooling all the io that you could possibly need except for that
additional three expansion slots we've also got the saber-tooth z77 which I
think I've covered pretty early already it looks like some of the dust covers have walked off but uh yeah one of them
still on here that's where one of the fans goes that's where the other fan goes so it's got their thermal armor
which allows you to basically keep all the components cool and free of dust
we've also got a susus VG series 27 in
light boost compatible 3D display as you
guys probably know if you watch my show I pretty much don't believe you should
be buying a 3D display unless you get one with light boost it makes an
enormous difference in terms of the Cross talk between the images as well as
the um headache inducing this personally I get a headache from 3D Vision 1 no
headache 3D Vision 2 last but not least we've got a gaming machine over here
that uh apparently antech got their little pause on this one too because uh
it's all Anta out as well as ASUS out so this is one of their direct CU cu2 cards
ASUS is actually one of the few vendors that does triple slot graphics cards now
while this may not be ideal for users who are running SLI especially you want
like three-way SLI or three-way Crossfire cuz they won't all fit in a
board it is ideal if you're running a single card because it means that you've
got that much more metal strapped to your card keeping it cool so if you can
see from the bottom you know what I can't see from the bottom this guy's
actually got two cooling fans built in and the rest of the system is pretty neat too this is a really neat power
supply there aren't many 80 plus Platinum power supplies and not many low
wattage ones so what you'll discover is that most power supplies Peak at around
50 to 60% uh load in terms of their
efficiency that's where they're going to hit their maximum efficiency and with
the highly efficient gaming parts that we have these days like GTX 680 radon
hd7970 as well as the new IV Bri processors what we need in terms of
high-end power supplies is low wattage extremely efficient power supplies in
order to get the most out of them Kingston also got their grubby paws on
this boots with some hyperx memory going on in here as well as a hyperx SSD
welcome to the NVIDIA Booth NVIDIA I mean these guys are doing so much
amazing stuff these days not just with GeForce on the desktop but also with
Tegra on the mobile side so for their Booth they've actually got you can use
these but personally I prefer the touchcreen interface they have an ASUS
tablet powered by an NVIDIA Tegra chip that is outputting to here which looks
really good and looks very impressive and all that stuff but what is even more
impressive is the fact that that hold on
how do I move there we go is the fact that they have this going on the
full-sized 1080p TV right in front of me
here so you can you can play with your tablet you can play with a remote
controller whatever you want we are experiencing HD gaming at its finest in
spite of the fact that this device is thinner than a phone which is pretty
cool so let's keep moving right along in the Nidia boo here we've got a couple of
other things including the ASUS Transformer Prime so I've covered this
one in the past already this is running the Tegra 3 processor which is a five
core processor it has four main cores and one auxiliary core for power saving
and you can check out my unboxing on my Linus Tech tips Channel if you want any
more details on it Tegra 3 basically turns
Android into the experience that I thought it should have been Tegra 2 is
fast especially for things like gaming but in terms of the overall snappiness
and responsiveness of the platform Tegra 3 really kicks it up remember Tegra 3 is
a quad core effective versus two cores effective for Tegra 2 we've also got a
couple pretty neat gaming notebooks here 67 67 670s and 670s so these are from
MSI and isus this MSI model is actually the one that I'm more familiar with this
uses their custom steel series designed by Steel series backlit keyboard as well
as their Dine Audio audio solution both of these are really a couple steps ahead
of the competition in terms of what they're doing to make the tactile
experience of your your notebook gaming notebook excellent as well as the audio
experience now these are not for the faint have heart these are thick
notebooks they're heavy however if you want the ultimate gaming experience on
the go with a quad core processor a high-end NVIDIA graphics card then
that's pretty much what you're going to want to go with new g75 and this is the
new g75 so this is a brand new design
the g74 saw several revisions of CPUs as
well as gpus go into it before it looks like they have finally redesigned this
notebook I actually haven't seen this one yet you can see remnants of the
original g74 design like the way the hinges are positioned here however
theyve looks like they've completely redone the interior design so they've
got a great soft touch feel here this is
actually a bit rougher than most soft touch which I think is a good thing
because it'll keep it from wearing out as quickly as most soft touch finishes
do in terms of I/O we've also got an upgrade here we've got Blu-ray s
two USB 3 super speed ports and on the
other side we have a wide variety of things
actually we've got more Super Speed USB two more of those we've actually got
HDMI gigabit Ethernet as well as what
the heck is that one is that
Thunderbolt looks like it's Thunderbolt correct me if I'm wrong here guys but I
think that's Thunderbolt leave a comment under the video if I'm wrong and coupled
together with the NVIDIA Booth one of their board part Partners decided to
come to the tech Fair as well galaxy has got a beastly gaming machine going in
here with one of their custom nonreference video cards that it looks
like a GTX 670 GC with the dual fan
cooling solution so they've got that running a 3D Vision demo over here on
this table oh no they don't have 3D Vision
sorry they have 3D Vision stuff here but they've got it running unen Heaven just
so you can see how absolutely beastly it is also if you come check out the Galaxy
Booth make sure you bug them for one of these I've got one these are um these
are dead gpus from rmas over the years
so these are older gpus and they put them in plastic and it makes for like a
really cool little keychain finally they've got their lineup of graphics
cards Unfortunately they don't have the GTX 670 or 680 here cuz they're rarer
than hen teeth however as a show deal we
do have the GTX 670 for $369.99 that's a Galaxy reference card which is pretty
cool however remember the GTX 670 and 680 are great for surround gaming but so
is the MDT series from Galaxy so they've got a 560 570 and 580 that are all
capable of three monitor surround gaming we actually did an NCIX Tech tips on
that not that long ago on the ncixcom channel so thank you for checking out
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