The ARES II certainly delivers the chops and is the ultimate in graphics card for pure performance at the point of publishing this review. There is no other card that's faster, cooler nor quieter at its level of competition. For an elite card dedicated to hardware collectors and those who settle for nothing but the best, the ARES II is just the tech gadget you may have been looking for - even with its crazy price tag. There are some things that probably cannot be quantified by its cost and with product excellence on its side, we're also bestowing the ARES II with our Gaming Rig component award. more

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The ARES II certainly delivers the chops and is the ultimate in graphics card for pure performance at the point of publishing this review. There is no other card that's faster, cooler nor quieter at its level of competition. For an elite card dedicated to hardware collectors and those who settle for nothing but the best, the ARES II is just the tech gadget you may have been looking for - even with its crazy price tag. There are some things that probably cannot be quantified by its cost and with product excellence on its side, we're also bestowing the ARES II with our Gaming Rig component award. more

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While we weren't blown away by either of our GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost custom cards, both are good offerings that show improvement on the reference design. As we suspected in our reference card review, the GTX 650 Ti Boost is operating at close to maximum performance so don't expect any OC edition to produce significantly higher scores. more

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Apart from Netgear, the RT-AC66U is one of the preliminary 802.11ac routers to enter the market. Design-wise, it bears similar looks as its RT-N66U predecessor, so there's nothing really new here. The ASUS router features a nice spread of Gigabit WAN and LAN offerings, plus two USB ports with excellent network support for printers, storage devices, and 3G adapters. The upgraded ASUSWRT interface is a positive touch. We like its attractive layout and comprehensive networking features, including AiDisk (file sharing via the cloud), Network Print Server, plus Media Server support for iTunes, FTP, and Samba. The pre-loaded IPTV profiles and QoS rules are useful too. The real strength of this router, however, lies with its AC performance on the 5GHz band. Its throughput performance remains unsurpassed by those from D-Link, Netgear, and Linksys to-date. This makes the ASUS RT-AC66U a formidable router if streaming HD clips is what you have in mind. more

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If we consider overall potential too, the HD 7790 seems to already be performing close to its limit. Our overclocking efforts only saw about a 6-8% performance gain, which, while acceptable, was not all that impressive. On the other hand, the HD 7850 has plenty of room for overclocking, and we saw a much bigger gain in performance as a result. more

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One of the first 802.11ac routers to enter market, the ASUS RT-AC66U features a nice spread of Gigabit, WLAN and LAN offerings as well as two USB ports with excellent netowrk support for printers, storage device and 3G adapters.

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This ASUS is a checklist for the latest PC innovation. 23.6in multi-touch screen? Active 3D Blu-ray and gaming? Check. Bleeding-edge intel quad-core i7 and Nvidia graphics hardawre.

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For many years now, ASUS' motherboards are known for its strong balance of features, performance, and reliability. This has resulted in a strong brand following that's hard to erode, despite the competitive landscape. Also for the fourth year running, ASUS has strolled home with the Readers' Choice award for Best Motherboard Brand, garnering a whopping 56% of the votes along the way. more

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The ASUS F2A85-M is the first of our two mATX motherboards in this lineup and it sports a minimalist look with the familiar blue, dark brown and black color scheme associated with most ASUS boards. The first thing, or rather lack of it, that struck us is the absence of any cooling solution for the VRM system of the board. This is due to the fact of the reduced power phase design of such mATX boards (usually due to limited PCB space). more

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For many years now, ASUS' motherboards are known for its strong balance of features, performance, and reliability. This has resulted in a strong brand following that's hard to erode, despite the competitive landscape. Also for the fourth year running, ASUS has strolled home with the Readers' Choice award for Best Motherboard Brand, garnering a whopping 56% of the votes along the way. more

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The ASUS ROG ARES II is (and will be for some time to come) the fastest AMD-based offering that money can buy, provided you are willing to sacrifice some degree of smoothness and driver-dependent game compatibility/rendering quirkiness that is inherent in multi-GPU setups. more

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The ASUS ROG ARES II is (and will be for some time to come) the fastest AMD-based offering that money can buy, provided you are willing to sacrifice some degree of smoothness and driver-dependent game compatibility/rendering quirkiness that is inherent in multi-GPU setups. more

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The ARES II certainly delivers the chops and is the ultimate in graphics card for pure performance at the point of publishing this review. There is no other card that's faster, cooler nor quieter at its level of competition. For an elite card dedicated to hardware collectors and those who settle for nothing but the best, the ARES II is just the tech gadget you may have been looking for - even with its crazy price tag. There are some things that probably cannot be quantified by its cost and with product excellence on its side, we're also bestowing the ARES II with our Gaming Rig component award. more

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The ARES II certainly delivers the chops and is the ultimate in graphics card for pure performance at the point of publishing this review. There is no other card that's faster, cooler nor quieter at its level of competition. For an elite card dedicated to hardware collectors and those who settle for nothing but the best, the ARES II is just the tech gadget you may have been looking for - even with its crazy price tag. There are some things that probably cannot be quantified by its cost and with product excellence on its side, we're also bestowing the ARES II with our Gaming Rig component award. more

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The ET2300INTI would have been close to perfect had it come with an integrated TV tuner and a Blu-ray drive, but as it is, if what you are looking for is an all-round entertainment system or if you have an extensive collection of Blu-ray movies, you might want either stick an additional USB-based Blu-ray drive or forgo the ET2300INTI and stick to the older ET2411INTI. more

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The ET2300INTI would have been close to perfect had it come with an integrated TV tuner and a Blu-ray drive, but as it is, if what you are looking for is an all-round entertainment system or if you have an extensive collection of Blu-ray movies, you might want either stick an additional USB-based Blu-ray drive or forgo the ET2300INTI and stick to the older ET2411INTI. more

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The ROG Orion Pro is a gaming headset, and rightly so. It comes bundled with an audio enhancer called the Spitfire. This little dongle will change your life the way the discovery of a vibrator will change a teenage girl's. The Spitfire accepts both of the Orion Pro's jacks that not only turn it into a USB powered device; it amps up the headset's audio clarity, gives it true surround, and includes a ‘FPS mode'.

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The ROG Orion Pro is a gaming headset, and rightly so. It comes bundled with an audio enhancer called the Spitfire. This little dongle will change your life the way the discovery of a vibrator will change a teenage girl's. The Spitfire accepts both of the Orion Pro's jacks that not only turn it into a USB powered device; it amps up the headset's audio clarity, gives it true surround, and includes a ‘FPS mode'.

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All up, the ASUS DSL-N55U N600 is a great little router that excels in storage support and data sharing, and it can be purchased for under $160, which we think makes it good value. Its wireless performance was relatively swift and very reliable and the router overall never gave us problems once it was properly set up. This is important because the latest firmware is needed in order to make use of the USB applications such as AiCloud, Download Master and Media Server. The default firmware for this router only came with Download Master and it was not until we updated that we were able to use the Media Server and AiCloud features. The only other issue is that installing AiCloud was a little fiddly and we had to manually reset the router a couple of times before it would work. more

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Taiwan Excellence Gold Award 2013

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