With next generation graphics architectures still a good ways off, we’ve seen a steady stream of manufacturers introducing custom versions of current GPUs. Unfortunately these cards are meant as flagship products that make a bold statement so they are usually reserved for certain well-heeled consumers. This has led MSI, ASUS, Zotac and many others to [...]

The ASUS ROG MARS II Limited Edition video card brings true dual-GeForce GTX 580 GPUs to the table. Take two of these and you can have a true GTX 580 Quad-SLI system. We’ll dive into performance, including Battlefield 3, and see what these can do directly compared to 4-way CrossFireX. What we are about to [...]

Asus has been around a long time and is one of the top rated motherboard and graphic card manufacturers in the world. In the graphics cards area they are well known for their innovative and attractive cooling solutions to deal with the heat generated by the latest round of GPU’s. This time around they sent [...]

Dual-GPU graphics cards are becoming an interesting story. While both NVIDIA and AMD have introduced their own reference dual-GPU designs for quite some time, it is the custom build models from board vendors like ASUS and EVGA that really peak our interest because of their unique nature. Earlier this year EVGA released the GTX 460 [...]

ASUS began bundling copies of Battlefield 3 (not Limited Edition) and an ASUS-Battlefield 3 themed Lanyard with GeForce GTX 560 Ti DirectCU II TOP graphics card and Xonar D2X PCI-Express 7.1 channel sound card. You can buy either of those and get a Battlefield 3 coupon that can be redeemed on Origin. The GeForce GTX [...]

When it was released, the Radeon HD 5770 was immensely popular for the money. A decent shader processor count versus good features versus an acceptable price. That makes the 125~150 EUR card offering a decent gaming experience. Over the summer AMD decided to respin and rebrand some of its graphics card, and that entails a [...]

Whether you are a gamer or work in some part of the graphics design field, its more than likely that if your motherboard has onboard graphics, it just can’t handle what developers are throwing at us these days. And VisionTek is where third party manufacturers come in to play, such as VisionTek, ASUS, Gigabyte and [...]

SANTA CLARA, CA — (Marketwire) — 10/14/2011 — The best 3D technology for the PC just got better with the introduction of new NVIDIA®3D Vision™ products, which deliver greater realism and immersion than ever for 3D games, movies and photos. NVIDIA 3D Vision 2, the next generation of NVIDIA’s award-winning 3D technology, features sleek, newly-redesigned, [...]

ASUS every now and then, does crazy weird stuff, for example every year they are producing a handful of graphics cards that pretty much nobody can buy. We’ve seen the original brutal Mars, the exemplary ARES but ASUS is at it again with the all new Mars II, yep that’s right. The x-factor products makes [...]

A few months ago I took a look at the MSI R6850 Cyclone PE / OC graphics card, a very solid mid-range card that sold for just under $180 at the time of writing. Today we will be taking a look at the ASUS GTX560 Ti DirectCU II TOP graphics card, an Nvidia-based Fermi GPU [...]

A couple of weeks ago we were allowed to post a ‘preview’ of the ASUS MARS 2 video card. Today, we follow up that preview with a look at the performance of this video card. The ASUS MARS 2 retails for $1499.99 plus $10.60 for shipping! Not everyone is going to spend this time of [...]

At the moment we’re going through these little phases with video cards; we get a couple in and then it dies down for a few weeks. Then a few more come in and it dies down a little bit again. The latest card to slide into the lab here comes from Sapphire and is an [...]

Welcome to the second half of our 580 Faceoff. There are many high-performance graphics cards out there, and the NVIDIA GTX 580 is one of the best. Many manufacturers have made their own versions of the GTX 580, so how do we know which card to buy? We’ve already taken a look at the ASUS [...]

Welcome to the first half of our 580 Faceoff. There are many high-performance graphics cards out there, and the NVIDIA GTX 580 is one of the best. Many manufacturers have made their own versions of the GTX 580, so how do we know which card to buy? This week, we’ll be taking a look at [...]

ASUS has often been one of only a handful of companies that really pushes the limits of technology on their custom designed products including graphics cards, sound cards, notebooks, motherboards and more. Just a little over a year ago I wrote a review of the ASUS ARES Dual Radeon HD 5870 graphics card – the [...]

The name ASUS is well known as the maker of world’s best selling motherboards with the biggest market share globally. Asus is also know as one of the top makers of video cards utilizing very high quality components and decent levels of overclocking right from the factory to eek out a bit more performance than [...]

I have got to be honest with you – most of the time getting me excited for graphics cards any more is a chore. Unless we are talking about a new architecture from NVIDIA or AMD, card vendors are hard pressed to the same attention from me they used to a couple of years ago [...]

Already so impressed with what the MARS II has to offer, we knew what had to be done. Using GPU Tweak, the overclocking software that replaced ASUS SmartDoctor, it was time to see just what kind of overclocking performance could be had from the new MARS II from ASUS. I’m expecting good things from the [...]

The GTX 580 has proven to be at the top of the food chain in the single GPU arena. AMD has taken shots with the HD6970, falling short on performance, but mitigating that with better pricing. With that said, ASUS has brought together a video card in the ENGTX580 DirectCU II that pushes the performance [...]

We classify graphics cards in three broad categories. Low-end cards provide a reasonable boost in performance over integrated graphics and can, with low-detail settings, play most modern games at a 720p resolution. Mid-range cards, usually costing between £100-£200, offer significantly more power, enabling you to run a 1080p resolution with decent image-quality settings. Spend a [...]