Asus

When we got the word earlier this year that Intel was going to delay the introduction of its own USB 3.0 chips, the designs of many motherboards were suddenly changed, reflecting the loss of the planned USB 3 ports.
Now, Asus has several motherboards which will include an add-in card that has two SATA 3.0 ports [...]

SLI, a method of sharing the graphics load between certain nVidia video cards, to achieve greater performance (.e.g. Divide and Conquer), is something that nets nVidia $5 each time a motherboard maker wants to include the ability in any of its motherboards. That is $5 per board. Not a bad deal.
The word is that the [...]

We all know that the motherboard, memory, and CPU cooler manufacturers are making a big push into the product arena with versions of Intel i5 compatible items. With no less than 11 entries, Gigabyte is going in big with the launch of Intel’s latest processor, no doubt fueled by things it already knew, and are [...]

Sure, I know that title makes little sense, but that conveys the strange tale of the AsusTek company, one that was just recognized as building the very best consumer motherboards, and a maker of various other computer parts, both for the retail, and the OEM, spaces.
And that is the problem. Asus could be much larger [...]

These are both technologies that are bound to make some changes in the computing landscape, once the screw ups in the chipsets currently available are repaired.
Articles on AnandTech, and a few other places tell us that the SATA 3 chip, made by Marvell, and currently the only one available, has some real problems with achieving [...]

Almost anyone who builds computers has a healthy respect, if not love, for the name Asus. For most, it goes back to the motherboards it released that would do things that Intel did not want done, and did it well. I think of the dual P III motherboard that, by clever trickery, allowed users to [...]

So often we find that motherboard manufacturers copy techniques from each other, which is how so many of the features, though they have widely different names, are essentially as identical as can be, while getting around any legal infringements.
Maximum PC has an article that makes a change from what usually happens, which is that the [...]

Have you been looking for a netbook that comes without the Windows tax? It seems that it is harder and harder, because, when they want to drive away competition, Microsoft can amazingly make copies of Windows XP so inexpensive that OEMs cannot help but give in. After all, you don’t think it was all your [...]

There is no doubt about it, all the major manufacturers are jumping on board with motherboards based on the Intel Atom dual-core processor. With the need to save energy, and bad economy, plus the general idea that efficiency and utility is all that is needed in a computer, many people will be buying much smaller [...]

No one will dispute that ASUS has become one of, if not the, preeminent brands out there for computer mainboards. Now, the company’s ‘economy’ brand, ASRock, is coming into its own as a purveyor of quality motherboards with many of the features of the ‘high priced spread’.
AnandTech has an article detailing the new offerings from [...]

With the hubbub about the Consumer Electronics Show, everyone is looking forward to the announcement of something. Apple fans have already gotten their list of items to put on the list, or lust after, depending upon price and budget, but others have to wait a little longer. This is one of the great things about [...]