A Visit to the Asus Booth at Computex 2016: A Look at the Latest and Greatest from Taiwan's Leading Technology Company

As I walked through the halls of Computex 2016, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and anticipation. What new technology would Asus have in store for us this year? As it turns out, the Taiwanese company had a plethora of innovative products to showcase, including a custom-built video card that's sure to impress even the most seasoned gamers.

One of the standout features of this video card is its two four-pin PWM fan headers directly built into the card. This allows for more precise temperature control and can be beneficial in systems where CPU fans may not ramp up or down as needed, but the graphics card does. For example, if you have a water-cooled system on your CPU but a separate graphics card that's getting really hot, this feature ensures that the fan headers are controlled solely by the graphics card, providing optimal cooling.

But what really sets this video card apart is its display I/O configuration. Instead of just two DisplayPort outputs, Asus has opted for two DisplayPort and two HDMI ports. This is because many users will be using their graphics cards with VR headsets like Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, which require the latter connection. By providing multiple HDMI ports, Asus has made it easier for users to connect their systems without having to sacrifice any output options.

As I continued my tour of the Asus booth, I stumbled upon a peculiar-looking product that caught my eye – an external graphics card enclosure called the ROG X G Station. This is essentially a separate unit designed to house and power a dedicated graphics card, allowing users to upgrade their laptop's graphics capabilities without having to purchase an entirely new machine.

The most exciting feature of this enclosure is its Thunderbolt 3 connection, which replaces the proprietary PCIe connection used in previous versions. While it does introduce some latency and decode/encode processing overhead, it provides a universal connection that can be supported by most laptops with a Thunderbolt 3 port. This makes it an attractive option for users who want to take advantage of external graphics capabilities without being tied to a specific platform.

The enclosure itself is also quite impressive, featuring a sleek acrylic design and pass-through ports for USB 3 and Gigabit Ethernet LAN connections. But what really sets it apart is its ability to display a pulsating LED effect on the front – a retro-style core reactor that adds a touch of flair to the overall design. And with Asus's Aura RGB lighting software, users can synchronize the enclosure's lighting effects with other ROG components in their system.

But wait, there's more! I also got to experience firsthand the capabilities of Asus's Aura RGB lighting feature. When linked up with a variety of ROG components – including a motherboard, PCIe graphics card, LED strips inside the case, keyboard, mouse, and even monitor LEDs – this software allows users to create stunning, synchronized light effects that add an extra layer of visual flair to their system. It was truly mesmerizing to see all these components come together in perfect harmony.

That's all from my visit to the Asus booth at Computex 2016. With its innovative video card and ROG X G Station enclosure, Asus is sure to be a major player in the world of PC gaming for years to come. And with its Aura RGB lighting feature, users can take their system to the next level with style and flair.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enawesomesauce networks coverage of Computex 2016 is brought to you by gigabyte fantex cable mod and g.skill without them i would still be at home with more free time click the links in the description for more info alright guys I've made my way over here to the Asus booth they've got a lot of cool stuff but I really just care about the video cards for some reason here at Computex 2016 and this is really exciting this is there ROG strict gtx 1080 this thing is pretty wicked and it's gonna be launching later this week so keep an eye out for it it's pretty awesome you can see it's got a completely new really engineered and redesigned cooler the Strix cooler of course with the turbo fans it's got three beautiful fans that go across the aluminum heatsink they're custom PCB we've got a single eight pin and a single 6 pin PCI II connector amazing looking backplate very nice it's got a little bit of a ventilation open there as well now this is actually pretty cool because if you look at the front here and I'll punch in on a b-roll shot there's two four pin pwm fan headers directly built into the video card and the reason for that is is because sometimes you had the fans in your system your chassis fans configured to ramp up or down depending on the temperature of your CPU but if you have something like a you know a Corsair H 100 ID GTX or whatever or water cold system on your CPU but sometimes your graphics cards getting really hot but your CPU not necessarily and so because of that your system fans won't wrap up and give the the proper cooling that your graphics cards need so it's actually nice that the you'll actually have up to two fans that can be completely dependent on your GPUs temperature which is nice to see another cool little addition here and this is also how you can tell this is a custom PCB is if you look at the display i/o we're actually seeing of course your agora dual link DVI but in addition to that you've got two DisplayPort and two HDMI and the reason why issue says pretty much exit out one of the display ports and replaced it with HDMI is because you're gonna be filling up that HDMI port with that in oculus rift or an HTC vive anyway which basically leaves you with no more HDMI outputs on your video card and since a lot of people are still using HDMI based monitors Asus figured it made a lot more sense to have at least two of them on there instead of one so altogether a pretty awesome card again be sure to keep an eye out for it and I'm gonna go ahead and see what else is around this booth because there's there's a lot of cool stuff here alright guys I've moved about 10 inches from the video card and now we have the the ROG X G station - this is essentially an external graphics card enclosure the graphics card which is a GTX 1080 in here right now is sold separately we're just talking about the enclosure here and actually saw an earlier version of this back in CES in January and it's changed a lot probably the biggest change and probably the best change that I found is that it's no longer using a proprietary connection which was PCIe before now it's actually using Thunderbolt 3 I'm a Thunderbolt 3 you're introducing a bit more latency there's a bit more decode and encode going on so you're not gonna get quite the performance out of Thunderbolt 3 as you are with PCIe however it's going to be a universal connection that can be pretty much supported by any laptop with that TB 3 connector but that being said there are a lot more cool features to this as well it's got a bunch of pass throughs in the back USB 3 as well as Gigabit Ethernet LAN so you can connect you know whatever peripherals your keyboard mouse and of course your Ethernet cable back there it's also got kind of a nice little aesthetic see-through window which is acrylic I believe and you've also got like a little bit of a pulsator I don't know kind of a retro looking thing in the middle I'm not sure exactly what it is some kind of core reactor flux capacitor thing it's pretty wicked though there is no pricing available for this yet I asked the guy couldn't get a number out of him although he did say that asus is trying to push this in time for the holiday season this year pretty cool so asus is also showing off their aura RGB lighting effects here actually a really cool function that i can do is if you have a bunch of ROG components that are RGB LED compatible with the aura software you can basically link them all up and control them through the software at the same time and not only that you can see that they're completely sync so right here we've got an ROG motherboard a PCIe graphics card you get the LED strips inside the case keyboard mouse and even the LEDs on the monitor they are all in sync actually they're not quite in sync right now they're they're actually I think somewhat a 6 rep came by and like scrambled the settings but I swear to god they were like perfectly in sync a second ago this is going horribly wrong anyway you should just take my word for it but this feature is awesome and it does work back to you me alright guys that is pretty much gonna wrap it up here for my coverage of the Asus booth at Computex 2016 thank you all so much for tuning in hope you enjoyed the content and special thanks to my sponsors once again for making this trip possible shout outs to gigabytes cable ma g.skill and fantex go ahead and check out the links below if you want more info there but thank you guys so much for tuning in I'll be seeing you guys in the next oneawesomesauce networks coverage of Computex 2016 is brought to you by gigabyte fantex cable mod and g.skill without them i would still be at home with more free time click the links in the description for more info alright guys I've made my way over here to the Asus booth they've got a lot of cool stuff but I really just care about the video cards for some reason here at Computex 2016 and this is really exciting this is there ROG strict gtx 1080 this thing is pretty wicked and it's gonna be launching later this week so keep an eye out for it it's pretty awesome you can see it's got a completely new really engineered and redesigned cooler the Strix cooler of course with the turbo fans it's got three beautiful fans that go across the aluminum heatsink they're custom PCB we've got a single eight pin and a single 6 pin PCI II connector amazing looking backplate very nice it's got a little bit of a ventilation open there as well now this is actually pretty cool because if you look at the front here and I'll punch in on a b-roll shot there's two four pin pwm fan headers directly built into the video card and the reason for that is is because sometimes you had the fans in your system your chassis fans configured to ramp up or down depending on the temperature of your CPU but if you have something like a you know a Corsair H 100 ID GTX or whatever or water cold system on your CPU but sometimes your graphics cards getting really hot but your CPU not necessarily and so because of that your system fans won't wrap up and give the the proper cooling that your graphics cards need so it's actually nice that the you'll actually have up to two fans that can be completely dependent on your GPUs temperature which is nice to see another cool little addition here and this is also how you can tell this is a custom PCB is if you look at the display i/o we're actually seeing of course your agora dual link DVI but in addition to that you've got two DisplayPort and two HDMI and the reason why issue says pretty much exit out one of the display ports and replaced it with HDMI is because you're gonna be filling up that HDMI port with that in oculus rift or an HTC vive anyway which basically leaves you with no more HDMI outputs on your video card and since a lot of people are still using HDMI based monitors Asus figured it made a lot more sense to have at least two of them on there instead of one so altogether a pretty awesome card again be sure to keep an eye out for it and I'm gonna go ahead and see what else is around this booth because there's there's a lot of cool stuff here alright guys I've moved about 10 inches from the video card and now we have the the ROG X G station - this is essentially an external graphics card enclosure the graphics card which is a GTX 1080 in here right now is sold separately we're just talking about the enclosure here and actually saw an earlier version of this back in CES in January and it's changed a lot probably the biggest change and probably the best change that I found is that it's no longer using a proprietary connection which was PCIe before now it's actually using Thunderbolt 3 I'm a Thunderbolt 3 you're introducing a bit more latency there's a bit more decode and encode going on so you're not gonna get quite the performance out of Thunderbolt 3 as you are with PCIe however it's going to be a universal connection that can be pretty much supported by any laptop with that TB 3 connector but that being said there are a lot more cool features to this as well it's got a bunch of pass throughs in the back USB 3 as well as Gigabit Ethernet LAN so you can connect you know whatever peripherals your keyboard mouse and of course your Ethernet cable back there it's also got kind of a nice little aesthetic see-through window which is acrylic I believe and you've also got like a little bit of a pulsator I don't know kind of a retro looking thing in the middle I'm not sure exactly what it is some kind of core reactor flux capacitor thing it's pretty wicked though there is no pricing available for this yet I asked the guy couldn't get a number out of him although he did say that asus is trying to push this in time for the holiday season this year pretty cool so asus is also showing off their aura RGB lighting effects here actually a really cool function that i can do is if you have a bunch of ROG components that are RGB LED compatible with the aura software you can basically link them all up and control them through the software at the same time and not only that you can see that they're completely sync so right here we've got an ROG motherboard a PCIe graphics card you get the LED strips inside the case keyboard mouse and even the LEDs on the monitor they are all in sync actually they're not quite in sync right now they're they're actually I think somewhat a 6 rep came by and like scrambled the settings but I swear to god they were like perfectly in sync a second ago this is going horribly wrong anyway you should just take my word for it but this feature is awesome and it does work back to you me alright guys that is pretty much gonna wrap it up here for my coverage of the Asus booth at Computex 2016 thank you all so much for tuning in hope you enjoyed the content and special thanks to my sponsors once again for making this trip possible shout outs to gigabytes cable ma g.skill and fantex go ahead and check out the links below if you want more info there but thank you guys so much for tuning in I'll be seeing you guys in the next one\n"