Posts Tagged Asus

Gigabyte gaining on ASUS in motherboard sales

Gigabyte is said to be picking up the pace on motherboard sales, according to a news report from digitimes.com. The Taiwanese PC component giant is said to have sold 4.9million motherboards during the first three months of 2013, just fractionally behind the five million sold by chief rival ASUS. Digitimes says both vendors shipped a [...]

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Next-gen Nexus 7 tablet to ship 12 million units in 2013: report

The second-generation of Google’s popular little seven-inch tablet is expected to ship some 12 million units in just seven months. Taiwanese news site digitimes.com is reporting from sources in the Google-designed ASUS-manufactured tablet’s supply chain that the device will go on sale in June or July. Sources say as many as one million units in [...]

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New ASUS GT 520 graphics card offers silent running

Taiwanese component giant ASUS has released a new low-profile graphics card aimed at media centre PC systems. The new GT520 SILENT features Nvidia’s GeForce GT 520 graphics processor unit (GPU) and fanless design to reduce noise levels from the graphics card to zero. It includes 1GB of DDR3 memory and supports accelerated playback of 1080p [...]

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ASUS launches dual-core GeForce GTX 590

The neverending story between AMD and Nvidia took another turn today with ASUS’ release of Nvidia’s latest dual-core graphics card. The new ASUS GTX 590 features twin GF110 GPUs running at a core clock speed of 612MHz with 3GB of GDDR5 graphics memory. ASUS also includes its own Voltage Tweak overvolting tool to push the [...]

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ASUS offers free replacement on affected Sandy Bridge products

Taiwanese notebook and PC component maker ASUS has announced that it has begun shipping replacement B3-stepping motherboards and notebooks. The news comes as the company announces the reintroduction of Intel’s troubled platform is ahead of schedule. Chip giant Intel announced on January 31 that a design flaw affecting hard drive connections had been found and [...]

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