ASUS today announced that the Transformer Book T100 is now shipping with a 500GB HDD keyboard dock. The ASUS Transformer Book T100 is a 10.1-inch ultraportable with an Intel® Atom™ ‘Bay Trail’ quad-core processor and detachable HD display than can be used as a standalone Windows 8.1 tablet. Featuring a sleek design and durable finish, the Transformer Book T100 with the HDD keyboard dock remains one of the lightest ultraportables, weighing it at just 2.5lbs, while the tablet remains one of the lightest in the 10-inch category at 1.2lbs. The Transformer Book T100 is also pre-installed with Microsoft Office Home & Student 2013 with full versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, the perfect productivity solution for both school and work.

Availability & Pricing The ASUS Transformer Book T100 with HDD keyboard dock is currently available at Amazon, Newegg, Tiger Direct, and other select retailers starting at MSRP $399.99.

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About ASUS ASUS is a worldwide top-three consumer notebook vendor and maker of the world’s best-selling, most award-winning, motherboards. A leading enterprise in the new digital era, ASUS designs and manufactures products that perfectly meet the needs of today’s digital home and office, with a broad portfolio that includes motherboards, graphics cards, optical drives, displays, desktop and all-in-one PCs, notebooks, netbooks, servers, multimedia devices, wireless solutions, networking devices, tablets and smartphones. Driven by innovation and committed to quality, ASUS won 4,256 awards in 2013 and is widely credited with revolutionizing the PC industry with its Eee PC™. ASUS has more than 12,500 employees around the globe with a world-class R&D team of 3,800 engineers. Company revenue for 2012 was approximately US$14 billion.

PR Contacts for North American Market: Nick Mijuskovic Technical Marketing – ASUS Computer International Nick_Mijuskovic@asus.com

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By now anyone who is a fan of ASUS knows what the Matric like of cards look like as the exterior design has remained the same for all Matrix branded cards, but what we do not know are the exact specs are such as GPU speed, memory clock speed or the real kicker the price. ASUS has released a lot of pictures showing off these new cards in an effort to wet the appetites of would be buyers in the gaming and consumer market, and in truth it will probably work. To a tech nerd or geek a new video card is like a new porno to watch and not be missed.

You can see in the pictures however that ASUS has added a few new things including a very custom PCB that will be geared toward the overclocker. The cooler that comes attached on these new cards features a dual-fan design that incorporates 5-heatpipes and a 14-phase VRM circuit as well as a large aluminum fan array. For those like myself who love a backplate on their video card ASUS once again aims to please by including one on these cards. Power will be provided via the 2 8-pin power connectors and for those who want to go extreme in their overclocking adventures there is also a provided LN2 button. These cards look good, sound great on paper and will most likely be a huge success for ASUS, but for now all we can do is wait impatiently for them to arrive. Until that day thanks for reading Tech Of Tomorrow. Have a great Friday and a safe and exciting weekend folks.

Source: Toms Hardware

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These companies went neck to neck in 2013 and ASUS only won by a photo finish leaving Gigabyte with a feeling of chance to possible overcome their numbers this Q1. The hard thing though is at this time point the entire PC market is rather flat and that tends to have a serious effect on how much is being bought by the consumer, which hurts sales dramatically. The numbers that are being brought forth are not those that are officially from either camp, but rather from Digitimes Reports , which reports that Gigabyte shipped 20 million motherboards last year with 40% shipped to China.

Gigabyte plans on changing their strategy up a bit this year according to comments made by Gigabyte President Alexander Ma. They plan on accomplishing this by aggressively targeting the mid and high-end marketplace in an effort to boost their average selling price (ASP) and their overall gross profit and return. Like I stated earlier though this market is rather flat and sales are predicted to decline by 5% or more in 2014 so Gigabyte has an uphill battle right out of the gate. Mr. Ma hopes that sales at least stay flat and that in the best case scenario sales will see a slight boost in total years sales.

Other companies are not so lucky, and 2^nd-Tier vendors like MSI on top followed by ASRock, ECS and Biostar expect a much further dip in overall motherboard shipments. Can anyone say “Ouch”? This is just the tip of the iceberg and more dips in sales will be seen across the board in the PC world in 2014. Hopefully we sill see better motherboards with a variety of new things such as color schemes and alternate form factors that still have some uncharted territory. What would you like to see in a motherboard that is not happening now? Thanks for reading Tech Of Tomorrow. Happy Hump Day my brothers and sisters of tech!

Source : Maximum PC

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It isn’t entirely clear yet just what exact form the device will take, though being portable it’s likely to be similar to the Shield or take on a Tablet design. Compared to the Nvidia Shield it has similar performance power, but has only half the internal storage, with only about 6GB of it being actually useable meaning only a few Android games can be installed at a time.

Given this info, it’s likely that Asus is trying to create a cheaper, price wise competitive model, not something to replace the Shield but rather an option for those not looking to spend $249.99. We’ll report further if any new info gets officially announced/revealed. What do you guys think? Does the thought of ASUS jumping into this sound appealing to you? Let us know in the comments below!

Source: Tom’s Hardware

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The ASUS Chrombox will allow users to access the chrome browser and store with 100GB of Google Drive space, connecting via dual-band 802.11 a/b/g/n Wifi.

All of the models will be packed 4.88 x 4.88 x 1.65 inch boxes, and include integrated intel HD graphics, 2 or 4 GB of DDR3 RAM, HDMI out and Displayport out with the option for dual monitors, 12 GB SSD, 4 USB 3.0 ports, 1 Lan Port, 1 Kensington lock, Bluetooth 4.0, and a 2-in-1 card reader.

Only two of the three models will be available in North America, one with an Intel Celeron 2955U processor, and the other with an Intel Core i3-4010U processor. The third model that we won’t be seeing just yet uses an Intel Core i7-4600U processor. The two models we can expect will be arriving for sale beginning sometime in March.

So what do you think? Does a Chromebox have a place in your tech collection?  Let us know in the comments section!

Source: ASUS

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The SANAM cluster is capable of pumping out 532.6 TFLOPS with an energy efficiency of 2.3 GFLOPS/Watt, built using 210 ESC4000/FDR G2s, consisting of 420 AMD FirePro S10000 dual-GPUs and an array of 420 Intel Xeon E5-2650 eight-core processors, leading to a total of 38,400 processing cores.

ASUS has taken this chance to help boost the awareness of this server and make it clear to people just how powerful and efficient it is, you can check out it’s product page and full specs here.

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The card is totally designed by the ROG team and features the same racecar red and black color theme that is the mainstay of the ROG series of products. So what exactly is this new Mars 760? Well ASUS has taken a pair of GTX 760s and put them on a single PCB. The GeForce GTX 760 is a mid level card so it seems a bit odd for ASUS to come at things this way, but results will show if this is badass or just ass-bad.

There will not be a limited amount of the cards made and seeing only 1000 of them will be a thing of the past, and hopefully this will see prices at an affordable range as well. Teaming up with NVIDIA ASUS has come up with a 2-card solution that can represent a Quad-SLI configuration and freeing up 2-PCIe lanes in the process as well. Why oh why a GTX 760 we all may ask and here was the answer: The GTX 760 still has 1,152 CUDA cores, which together gives it 2,304: this is Titan territory! Yet, with a GHz+ core clock, it’s even faster than Titan, and the Ti 780 in some games! The MARS 760 is – for the first time – a MARS affordable to many. No longer a limited run 1,000-part device, it provides a real alternative to those interested in buying GK110-territory products.

In the pics you can see the card is designed with looks as well as performance in mind and there is a giant sized MARS logo on the top of the card that features a pulsating red light. The card is based of a dual slot design so it should fit in most cases without problem. The DirectCU technology is still the essential and fundamental core of the cards design featuring dual fans, dual heatsinks, and 8 heatpipes all used to keep those GTX 760s running cool. Underneath there is a high-endurance frame that doubles as a heatspreader for the VRMs and memory. The long card is further braced on the backside and to protect the additional components using an aluminum bracket. ASUS like always when making their high-end cards has a 100% custom designed PCB that they build the new Mars 760 upon and there is nothing else like it on the market.

ASUS likes to take thing a bit further than other companies and tries to make their components and their PCB A++. The Mars 760 features a 12-phase DIGI+ VRM design has Super Alloy Power hardware and (Nichicon GT-series) Black Metallic Caps, providing longer life/harder wearing components. On the backside there are over a dozen super-low noise POSCAPs to enhance OC and stability potential. Both GeForce GTX 760 cores can run up to 1072mhz and combining the 2GB of memory for each card you get 4GB of total GDDR5 memory that runs at 6GHz (effective).  These are connected to the PLX PCI-Express 3.0 switch, providing the maximum throughput to the PCI-Express 16x connection. Adding another MARS 760 and connecting the SLI link gives you a Quad-SLI configuration with four GPUs! ASUS has some initial test scores directly from them if you want to see a preview of how the fast the card is supposed to be. Thanks for reading Tech Of Tomorrow.

Source: ASUS 

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G-SYNC makes it so that the Monitor’s refresh rate is synchronized with the GPU’s rendering rate, meaning that images are displayed at the exact moment the GPU renders them.

This gets rid of of various display problems in a lot of games like screen tearing or stuttering without the use of performance hampering settings like V-sync.

Basically it’s all of the good when it comes to smooth visuals with none of the bad. Asus plans to incorporate G-SYNC into it’s monitors beginning in 2014, with the first planned release being an upgraded version of the VG248QE at a price point of $399 in the first half of 2014.

Source: ASUS 

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Like usual ASUS has gone above and beyond and manufactured a card based on a totally non-reference design and featuring their Direct Copper connection to the GPU allowing better heat dissipation along with many of the other things you have come to enjoy about ASUS cards.

Direct CU II means there are 2 fans as you can se in the video and most fans know this, but for those in the new, there you go. Digi+VRM as well as Super Alloy Power allow the card to run with decreased electrical noise ASUS claims up to 30%, and by improved power conditioning and high quality parts the card should have a lifespan 2.5 times that of a reference card. ASUS also has very fine tuned fan control that will automatically adjust the fan speed according to the cards need, so if you are overclocking and the card is getting hot, the fans will spin faster and if the card is running cool the will run slower.

Unlike a reference card the ASUS rear I/O offers dual DVI connections a DVI-I, and DVI-D as well as standard display port (AMD reference has 2 Mini DP connections) and a standard HDMI connection. ASUS also has their own proprietary overclocking and monitoring suite called GPU TWEAK that offers an excellent and easy to navigate and use GUI many users swear by.

The card has dual six-pin power connections and comes with a Molex to six-pin power converter cable, as well as all the necessary drivers. The card is off to the testing phase now, but everything you need to get up and going is included in the box except your PC J. So what do you folk’s thing so far, look interesting? Are you and AMD fan awaiting the test results, if so let us know what you want to see it tested against first in our mini poll down below. Leave a comment let us know what’s on your mind here on Tech of Tomorrow, thanks for reading and watching.

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ASUS has just released their new Z87 Maximus VI Formula motherboard that covers all the bases when it comes to a solid place to start your build. The M-VI Formula is a crossover product, as anyone familiar with the ASUS Sabertooth line of motherboard knows that those boards use a very nice armor protection that protects the board and the user, and that series has always been a favorite of mine due to that factor.

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The new Formula version 6.0 has that same armor installed on the board bringing a ROG series product with the armor of a Sabertooth for motherboard protection, which is a first and solid idea all around methinks. You can also integrate your liquid cooling system onto the Maximus VI Formula by way of connections and the cooling apparatus on the top of the board. You do not have to do this, and air-cooling is still available, but the option to go hog wild is available as well. Options and more options fill this motherboard that is geared for the enthusiast user who wants everything to be on his/her motherboard without sacrificing anything for sub-standard quality.

Sound, something that recently has started to get taken more seriously, flourishes on the Maximus VI Formula, which not only uses high-end components in the design of the sound system. It also has the components segregated away from the other electronic parts of the motherboard offering cleaner (Less Noise and Hum) audio.

They also integrate superior headphone and front panel audio amps so you can even use audiophile level headphones if you want to get the absolute clearest sound reproduction. Regardless of what type of speaker system you are using you can choose from 2-4-6 or 8-channel configurations depending on your need and with the included ASUS audio software you can customize your audio to exactly how you prefer it to be.

There are 8 fan headers with anti-static protection in various locations around the board, which is plenty, and with ASUS board you can totally customize the name, speed, and amount of electricity they use within the BIOS, or in the Windows environment via ASUS software. The board has 3 PCIe slots designated by PCIe1/16/8 then PCIe2/8/4 and then PCIe3 at 4X supporting both CrossFire and SLI configurations.

ASUS also recommends that if you are using an SLI or CrossFire system that you use at least a 1000w PSU for maximum stability, and using the EZplug located on the bottom of the Maximus VI Formula is also recommended if you are utilizing all the PCIe slots at the same time. Most gamers use 1 or 2 cards, and only the hardcore enthusiast builders really need anything more anyways.

Memory support is incredible with up to 3000MHz support through approved XMP profiles and with all the other options in the BIOS overclocking comes pretty easily as well. If you just want to get reasonable speed enhancements this board has automatic settings guaranteed to work, but for extreme overclocking that requires special cooling and things that you cannot fit in your case. In the environment of a home reality, that to me is far more important than what you can get using dry ice or LN2 for your cooling as most homes are welcoming to that type of setup.

Like I said before ASUS has covered all their bases with this release. USB, 2.0, 3.0 as well as HDMI and DisplayPort connectivity for users wanting to utilize the onboard graphics available on the CPU are covered on the rear I/O, where both the digital and analog audio and Ethernet connections are located as well. Today we do the unboxing and first look over on our YouTube channel and for users already into the color scheme of the R.O.G series of boards you will really like what you see here today, so check out the video down below. I think that this board is cool enough to do a build around so this baby is going into some new crazy system build and your ideas are always an inspiration, so if you have something to say lets hear it in the comments below.

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