Alder Lake CPUs’ favorable price/performance ratio was initially spoiled by expensive motherboards. However, after the arrival of models with Intel B660 chipsets, the unfavorable situation began to turn around and in some cases quite dramatically. Asus TUF Gaming B660 Plus WiFi D4 with support for DDR4 memory, which is far cheaper than DDR5, can handle even the fastest CPUs. And the vast majority of users won’t even feel any bottlenecks.
Yes, the “main” topic with the most attention was motherboards (and the tech around them), but peripherals under the Asus banner also shone at the HWCooling Techtour ‘26 conference. Mice, keyboards, headphones… and there is more, which, incidentally, students also won for their activity. In this article, to give a better idea, we will map out roughly how it all looked. At the Asus booth, but also outside it. Read more “What Did Asus Have for Schools? Mobos, but Also Peripherals”
The Computex tradeshow this year seems to involve various anniversaries for many companies. In the case of Asus, the company is celebrating 20 years of its “premium” gaming brand, ROG. We visited the booth Asus has at the trade show as well and will show you some of the new hardware the company brought to its booth—because of this anniversary, much of it is quite extraordinary and forms a celebratory lineup called ROG Edition 20. Read more “The most interesting (and craziest) Asus hardware at Computex”
Failures of the 12V‑2×6 power cable (formerly 12VHPWR) have become the scourge of recent GPU generations. Especially for Nvidia cards pushing this power standard, but also for a few Radeon models using these connectors. Various attempts to work around or mitigate the risks have popped up; this time, Asus is introducing the Equalizer special‑purpose cable for its power supplies, that aim to prevent connector melting in several ways. Read more “Asus ROG Equalizer: Robust 12+4pin connectors that don’t burn?”
