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my coverage of Computex 2016 is proudly sponsored by fractal design MSI and g.skill we're nowadays soos I know there's some stuff you guys want to see here and we'll start out with what I think you want to see the most which is which is this this is their new GT X 1080 this is our OG Strix and and it's it's pretty cool they have a custom PCB on this of course they've gone with an 8 + 2 phase power delivery so they're completely redesigned the board the power delivery they have an 8 pin plus a 6 pin connecter therefore providing juice to the card they have RGB LED lighting and they have no other color accents on the card at all except with RGB LED lighting that's how it should be done good job Asus even on the back you got this little logo right there ROG and there's a couple unique features of this card one is that they have redone the i/o here or the least the outputs for the video they've given you an extra HDMI and that reason they've done that is because if you're using VR you're going to be using your HDMI for your VR headset they're giving you a second one in case you happen to also have an HDMI monitor that's convenient of course they still got a couple display ports on there they got the dual link DVI and the other thing they've done here down on this end is they've added a couple fan connectors because we all know we have fan connectors on a motherboard that will often run based on a CPU temperature for example this will give you the opportunity to plug in a couple fans and have them actually ramped up a ramp down based on the GPU temperature that's pretty convenient so if you have like some fans that would directly provide airflow onto the GPU connect those up and if the GPU gets hot fans get the fans get juice here a couple more specs I'm going to cheat off of for here this has an OC mode it'll go up to 1936 megahertz boost clock so I would imagine that might even push over 2,000 megahertz just right out of the gate memory clock is 10 gigabit gigabits per second and of course it features Asus Ora RGB lighting and more on that in just a second the other thing I have is this right here this is the our gxg station - and look you just pop it open like that and it opens up basically this is an external device of a light connect a laptop now asus has already done a version of this but they've changed now so they're actually using thunderbolt for this one originally they had a proprietary connection Thunderball does introduce a little bit of latency what would they want decided they wanted to do is go with a standard that was a little bit more broadly accepted and open standard I don't know if it's open but it's at least a standards a little bit more common they are going to do a higher-end version of this as well that will use the proprietary standard so for those who want the maximum performance and don't really care about thunderbolt they'll have that option but you can just drop in a graphics card here it's got active cooling on there it's got even a little plasma guy on the front which is pretty cool and it will provide its own power so if you are the kind of person who likes to have a laptop and then bring it home and plug it in and then game on it this is a kind of cool device for you it looks badass too I mean it's an rog product so that kind of goes without saying I also wanted to thank Logue or I'm okay I want to thank Kane for being here and playing playing games in the background well know why I know why these people playing these games uneasy with these controller I can't like this is I have no words we have our Asus Ora RGB lighting the demo showing showing right here is demonstrating a very unique feature when it comes to RGB lighting in cases look you have a graphics card that lights up RGB you have a motherboard that lights up RGB you have RGB lights inside the case you even have RGB lights something on the keyboard here as well as I thought there was a mouse here earlier it's gone ok it's about that even though RGB lighting on this is our G or our og monitor right here is all synced up Wow so they've created Universal standard so you can connect it whether it's connected via a USB or whether it's net could be like PCI Express like the graphics card it will all synchronize and that's pretty cool you can even maybe in the future maybe connect something up external so light your desk up to I don't know about that I don't know where I heard that though and finally I have this new asus motherboard look at it isn't it beautiful no ok what this actually is is Asus Project Avalon this is an ROG device the actual completed project is right here and I do have some b-roll of it sort of being taken apart and disassembled and whatnot but here's what Asus did they took the ATX standard and they threw it out the window like screw that we don't like the ATX standard it's too constraining what could we do if we just kind of went with our own layout for everything so what they ended up with was this board so you have kind of the main motherboard pieces it's on top right here that's where you actually have your CPU socket four dimm slots which you typically wouldn't be able to get on a case or system this size maybe you could depending if we go in micro ATX or something but definitely not mini ITX they have a separate power plane here so there's a separate piece of PCB in the middle of the board that delivers power to different components and then they basically have edge connectors that they've used to lay in like a backplane here four SATA slots so you can slide in SSDs there in the Front's they have an extra element over on the side that drops down overhears to give you a unique positioning for your graphics card so you can have actual access to it by simply opening up the side panel of the case which you just press and pop off like that these are freaking heavy like milled aluminum pieces as far as we can tell at least they're very substantial this is an rog product so they were going for a you know that sort of aggressive gamer look but it's really is is one of the coolest things i've seen here to be honest because they're simply using edge connectors to take the different modules of the motherboard and assemble it all together so that you end up with a complete working system but you have separate chambers for like the main motherboard and the memory and the CPU you've got this chamber over here which is basically to give you your fans support what they've done with it here is they taking an ek predator and I've dropped it in there ek predator with minimal all I did was add a couple 90 degree angle angle connectors on there to provide water cooling support in here have a water-cooled graphics card over on this side as well and it's just a pretty cool completed project product they have an air-cooled version of it as well and we don't know how much it's going to cost we don't know what when it's going to come out but I do like that ROG likes to kind of throw standards out the window do their own thing and kind of push the industry forward a little bit and although this would be sort of a self-contained unit I was asking them if they would ever consider making sort of a their own standard so that case manufacturers could come in and develop their own products or something like that they're not really going that route this just kind of working on this for right now but they're really interested in seeing what people think of this concept this design and the idea of just you know there's different ways motherboards can be put together there's different ways computers can be put together and this I thought was a pretty compelling example of that but that's gonna wrap it up for my Asus booth coverage guys I'd like to say one last sponsor shout out to my sponsors fractal design MSI and g-scale they're sponsored links are down in the description click those to show them some love thanks for watching this video and I'll be back with more 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