Experience a New Era of ROG with a Range of High-Performance Products

Recognizing that a successful gaming experience depends on more than just what is inside a PC, ROG now as well includes new PC peripherals. The first peripheral in the ROG family is the Vulcan ANC gaming headset with active noise-cancelling innovation, which ensures an immersive audio experience, whatever the gaming environment. Combine all the great ROG hardware and attach it to an ASUS VG278H 3D 27-inch display in other words designed for gaming, and gamers can become immersed in the latest titles.

The Crosshair V Formula with AMD 990FX chipset-based is not only the first ROG motherboard with AM3+ CPU support, however it is as well the first ever AMD motherboard to support both 3-Way NVDIA® SLITM and AMD CrossFireXTM as then as offer UEFI BIOS. The usual selection of advanced ROG overclocking tools are on hand too, during onboard SupremeFX X-Fi 2 delivers the most intense and immersive gaming audio experience. Better all in all, high-performance Intel® Ethernet with GameFirst innovation creates a LAN connection in other words fast enough to keep up with the pace of modern multiplayer gaming over an internet connection in other words also used being used for other online tasks.

Matter of fact make it the ultimate gaming motherboard

To as a matter of fact make it the ultimate gaming motherboard, the Crosshair V Formula/ThunderBolt as well comes with the ThunderBolt audio/LAN combo expansion card. The class-leading XONARTM audio research provides dramatically better sound quality than any standard audio card, during its built-in headphone amplifier with adjustable impedance settings make it perfect for getting the drop on the gaming competition. The Crosshair V Formula/Thunderbolt as well incorporates the award-winning Bigfoot NetworksTM KillerTM E2100 networking platform with exclusive Advanced Stream DetectTM innovation that automatically classifies and prioritizes traffic for online games, HD video and audio streams for optimum performance, even when performing these tasks simultaneously.

The Maximus IV Extreme-Z is the latest model in a long line of ROG motherboards designed from the ground up to be an overclocking enthusiast's dream come true. The Maximus IV GENE-Z takes the successful ROG motherboard recipe and shrinks it to a microATX form factor that will appeal to speed freaks and case modders alike. Support for both NVIDIA® SLITM and AMD CrossFireXTM offers the ultimate in flexibility for 3D graphics, nevertheless that does not mean the integrated GPU features of the Intel® Z68 chipset are wasted. Full support for the Lucid® VirtuTM graphics virtualization engine means the Maximus IV GENE-Z can seamlessly switch between discrete and integrated graphics on-the-fly as the application demands, during SupremeFX X-Fi 2 audio and Intel® Ethernet with GameFirst ensure a first-class gaming experience.

The ROG MATRIX GTX 580 is a high-performance graphics card for enthusiasts and gamers who demand the very best with NVIDIA® GeForce GTX 580 GPU. Enhanced TweakIt, ProbeIt and Safe Mode overclocking utilities offer unequalled hardware adjustment, during GPU Tweak provides instant settings adjustment and monitoring. The 19-Phase Super Alloy Power innovation provides greater overclocking headroom with enhanced power efficiency and component durability.

The extreme effective cooling

ASUS DirectCU II technology as well provides in the extreme effective cooling by combining copper heatpipes that fix in direct contact with the GPU core with two huge sound-dampened fans that suck through 600% more air and achieving 20% cooler operation than the reference design.

The ROG MARS II/2DIS/3GD5 elevates extreme high-performance gaming to greater heights. The dual NVIDIA® GeForce GTX 580 design ensures phenomenally high frame rates in the latest games at maxed-out detail settings, during the all-new GPU Tweak overclocking utility with real-time clock and fan speed adjustment offers unique tweaking opportunities. 19-Phase Super Alloy Power research and Direct CU dual-fan cooling makes for cool, rock-solid operation too.

Integral part of this competition-destroying desktop

Overclocking features form an integral part of this competition-destroying desktop, with a one-touch ‘Level Up' button built directly into the chassis for an instant real-time speed boost. Exclusive ASUS DIGI+ VRM innovation and innovative thermal management ensures that the ROG CG8565 stays cool even when it is pushed to the limit, during the ASUS Xonar sound card provides immersive gaming audio.

The ROG Vulcan ANC Gaming Headset completes the new range of Republic of Gamers accessories. It is perfect for gaming in noisy environments, or just those times when external speakers are not appropriate. The Vulcan ANC Gaming Headset uses active noise cancelling research specially designed to filter external noise from both its high-quality speakers and boom microphone. The result is crystal-clear sound quality for music, movies, games and even VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) calls.

ASUS, the world's top 3 consumer notebook vendor and the maker of the world's best-selling and most award winning motherboards, is a leading enterprise in the new digital era. ASUS designs and manufactures products that perfectly meet the needs of today's digital home, office and person, with a broad portfolio that includes motherboards, graphics cards, optical drives, displays, desktops, Eee Box and all-in-one PCs, notebooks, netbooks, tablet devices, servers, multimedia and wireless solutions, networking devices, and mobile phones. Driven by research and committed to quality, ASUS won 3,398 awards in 2010, and is widely credited with revolutionizing the PC industry with the Eee PCTM. With a global staff of more than 10,000 and a world-class R&D team of 3,000 engineers, the company's revenue for 2010 was around US$10.1 billion.