The Asus ROG Strix motherboards have shown remarkable performance and reliability in previous iterations and here it is easy to pick a premium Z790 model that offers handy overclocking options (like a Start button on the board), without going overboard. Yes, there are no-holds-barred versions from the Asus ROG stable, but this ROG Strix offers a good balance of features without bursting the bank.

The Asus TUF Gaming Geforce RTX 4080 is the fastest graphics card based on Nvidia's AD103 graphics unit in the test field so far. However, it is not only fast, but also particularly quiet and efficient.

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For the ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4080 OC Edition, it’s just a tad bit faster right out of the box with some extra performance if you don’t really want to deal with any kind of performance tweaking at all.

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The ASUS TUF Gaming RTX 4080 OC Edition is a lady card in terms of design. ASUS continues to do a more than excellent job in this respect, as we saw with the last generation as well. In this sense, it must be said that the margin for improvement with this generation is smaller in terms of cooling, also due to NVIDIA's choice to leave the heatsink from the 4090 FE also on the 4080.