Posts Tagged Asus

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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ASUS launches new 24-inch P-IPS ProArt series LCD monitor

Taiwanese PC component maker ASUS has released something a bit “old school” – a 24-inch LCD monitor that features 1920×1200-pixel resolution. The new PA246Q ProArt series monitor breaks with recent tradition amongst LCD monitor makers on a couple of fronts. First, it’s a 16:10-aspect ratio monitor with 1920×1200-pixel resolution. Growth in widescreen video playback has [...]

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ASUS to ship up to 2million tablets in 2011: report

While rumours of three new Apple iPhones are getting almost as much airplay as the new iPad 2, the tablet market looks set to make some major inroads into the PC mainstream in 2011. The latest report from online source digitimes.com, Taiwanese notebook and PC component specialist ASUStek is planning on shipping up to two [...]

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