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so we are at the azuz stand here and i'm joined by dennis and now one question before we even get into any enthusiast tech at all I've been a longtime fan of Zeus however Dennis here says it's pronounced many different ways with an official ruling on the name as from four years ago yet yes so say it with me together a sous a sous yeah so something we're constantly trying to educate about now I come from IT way way way back in the day when i bought bored so in the very beginning I said asus and then I came to this industry when it was a sous but as you mentioned for the last four years plop four plus years it's been asus asus I don't know I've got that's gonna take some time for me to work in a Zeus ASIS ASIS ASIS ASIS ASIS I'm going to try and remember that so we're going to move on now to some enthusiasts tech knowledge and questions here the biggest one of my mom was the Zeus tricks really the brand on the say that the GPU cool is there really i mean i bought a gtx 1060 Wiles here and a gtx 1070 really good focus on those strict schools with that fat flat base was there anything was that thing coming back from the DC 2 series so yeah so the strict schooling does come in direct to you 3 as well as directs to you too it's got the you know the patented wing blade fans on it but it's actually been a really exciting generation for us because we've got a lot of stuff that enhance what i call gamer roi so return on investment from the gamers point of view right so adding things like customizable or RGB lighting that can be synced with motherboard now so for us like we've been doing we've been doing gaming a long time right so we feel that we have a pretty good understanding so it's not lighting for the sake of lighting right it's like a very sophisticated look choosing the right shade of color that you want to match a perfect build right beyond that we've got the first graphics cards with actual 4-pin pwm fan headers on the card itself so when you're really overclocking when you need that extra cooling you can plug fans directly into the graphics card and map those three the GPU temperature see that's what we like to hear the PWM fans beautiful design they're coming from Azusa ases okay rewind it back a sous so we get that i'll try to a sous i'm going to try and get that right from here on in so yeah I've definitely been impressed with the cooling solutions on those GPUs the RGB lining I know a lot of people aren't big fans of that myself included though the OCD market out there people who want that new lighting on the on their graphics cards asus is taking care of that with the RGB lighting as you said yeah so again it's all about customization and personalization right so not just having ok you have one pattern one color and that's all you get right so the people that want lighting they can turn it on they can tune it to exactly what they want and if you don't like it you can shut it off right this is going not just through the GPU cool as the motherboards as well on all the x 99 lines e170 lines so is there anything else that's going to set asus aside from the other brands out there and really sort of or anything in the works that's going to really that maybe the customization in the software or whatnot so within or RGB space you're definitely going to see that ecosystem expand from our side engineers are basically working on tirelessly on getting all that synchronized and a lot of that is with the mindset of like okay so if you want the or RGB you don't want a ton of applications open to control each individual one right so you're definitely going to see that space expand as well and we were also the first ones to actually put that 5050 header right on the motherboard so you can easily add LED light strip and have that sync up with everything else in your rig definitely one thing with the motherboards as well I've noticed the order overclocking features very great if you're a complete noob with overclocking asus will take care of you in that you just hit the auto button and you're pretty good to go right yeah and that was really something that came about with all silicon really not being created equal right like you remember back in the day used to be able to find an overclocking guide match all the settings and you would be able to hit 4 gigahertz 4.2 gigahertz right it was pretty general and you know in terms of that but you also needed to have a lot more knowledge back in those days as well like a note especially with overclocking as well but nowadays i vs asus have the market covered if you're a complete new bra yeah so I mean that's where we've invested a lot in five way optimization and particular what you're talking about auto tuning right because at the end of the day like okay so there's there's the speeds and feeds of gigahertz but we found that most consumers are just looking to get the performance that they paid for right so with auto tuning you can basically extract 95% the cpu's potential performance just with one click essentially and that's what people are looking for right they just want to know okay I bought a case series processor I know I should be overclocking I just want to click a button and have it happen right and so that process that I could take up to like two days before to get to that ninety-five percent level and then if you want to you can start playing more with ratio V Corps and like even pcl k if you want but a lot of people are happy with that ninety-five percent mark right exactly Ryan that's that's what matters to the masses if you don't know anything about overclocking as well but nothing I've noticed here is the rogue series of the laptops coming out with that big GTX 10 series push their the desktop graphics cards coming into the laptops Zeus are definitely taken care of aces are definitely taking care of that market right so we've got two things here so ROG we made an acronym so it's actually not raag it's ROG but yeah we've got the Hat we've got all the Pascal refresh laptops you're really excited about that we've got the g7 five tues with the the GTX 1070 this is actually the first north american exposure for the g 800 so that will be compatible with the external water cooling dock and that's running a desktop GTX 1080 now that that is your definite desktop replacement but like over in the sports area for example we've got GL 50 tues running so that's the more ultra portable gaming laptop that still has you know all the performance that that you want so the definitely the cooling on there as well you go thats tricks design the shallow fans as well coming into the laptops as well specifically the the ducted cooling so what goes out the back the exhaust right because you don't want the heat going into well nobody use a laptop on their lap anymore but you know just so it's not cooking your desk so you don't need to have a bulky cool or underneath it definitely all those laptops as well as the desktops here we got the VR on display here and all those new series graphics cards supporting VR so definitely this have a mini or micro ATX size and also a full-sized midsize ATX case coming out premades as well guess you guys are really covering pocket everything enthusiast yeah absolutely i mean what we've really seen is being the whole vr trend is causing a renaissance in pc gaming right so people are becoming more interested in it again and so we're kind of here to remind them like if you build your own pc there's a lot of things you can do with that pc you haven't just built a console right and so that's super exciting for us right no consoles no consoles but you know on the pre-built side we do have like the g20 right which is a small form-factor we've got the standard mid tower g11 and then we've also got you know sli gtx 1080 GT 51 the beasts yeah and also last question we got here is the 4k seen as well as asus have any plans to really push anything other than i think i heard rumors about a 4k 144 hurts monitor in the works is that obviously you guys want to get that out in just a pstn or what not i'm not really sure about that is there is that got an expected release date or anything like that no information just yet it does kind of depend on the panel tech but to be honest like where we meet investments like in the ROG curb the PG 348 Q is having ultra-wide quad HD right 3440 back working 40 and the reason that's important rice you don't run into that 60 Hertz issue right so that that panel that monitor can do 100 Hertz and so that's that's really been the main limiting factor displayport 1.2 and being capped at 60 Hertz at 4k so once we start moving to like DP 1.3 and things are going to be very very interesting than yeah that's definitely things to look forward to from a asus there i got to say that right i'm going to change my vocabulary to match the official pronunciation now i'd like to thank Dennis very much for coming on this interview and if you guys have any questions or comments for either of us about this interview and be sure to drop a calm in the comment section below and I'll catch you guys in another tech video very soon any final words before we get out of here I know thanks for making the trip and visiting us in the asus rog booth the asus rog booth catch you guys in the next tech video thanks for tuning in bye