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- Here we are at the Asus ROG booth here for Computex 2019, and they have 10 new X570 motherboards on display. And, we're gonna be covering all that plus some monitors, plus a heap of other new things that are really cool. They got their ProArt series and a lot of things. But, you guys wanna know about the motherboards, so we're gonna start from the top to the bottom, and this is gonna be quite a long one, because there's so many details to go through. Starting off from the top to the bottom, we have the ROG Crosshair VIII Formula with 16 Power Stages, and also has an EK Water Block over the VRM for custom water cooling, and on top of that, the bottom half is cooled with a heat sink with an OLED display across the top to the bottom. I mean the-- This thing looks absolutely gorgeous in person. Of course, the pricing is still to be determined, though that will come out closer to the release date of the Ryzen 3000 series chips. In terms of availability, I do hear around from all the board partners, you can expect these boards to be released about a week before those CPUs go on sale. Now, other things they have included is 5G Aquantia LAN on this board, as well as all metal shielding in all the 8-pin areas. This is across all the X570 boards, and you get WiFi 6 included, and an integrated IO shield. Now, only two of the models don't have integrated IO shields. I will point them out as we go along, but moving beside that is the Crosshair ROG VIII Hero with 2.5G Realtek, so they're stepping it down from 5G to 2.5G. It's also got WiFi 6, and the same VRM with 16 Power Stages, which also on this VRM phase features no driver separated from the MOSFET. The driver's actually in the MOSFET, which makes for better efficiency and lower latency. You also got for M.2 drive support PCI 4x4. You get two of those on pretty much every single board here throughout the lineup, except the ITX versions. Now, for you Mini-ITX lovers out there, they've got the X570 I Gaming. This features 10 Power Stages, WiFi 6, however in this case, you will need to mount the IO shield that will come included, but the design does look pretty cool. They're featuring mesh over this little Mini-ITX solution, and they've integrated the heat sink fan for the PCiE Gen 4 on the chipset over to the left hand side of the board. And then, if you want a little bit more but you still want a small DTX form factor, then they've got the Crosshair VIII Impact. Still has 10 Power Stages, and the orientation of the Power Stages are slightly different, and so you also the support with that orientation, freeing up some space another slot for a SO-DIMM lane. They can support two NVMe drivers with a PCiE Gen 4x slot. Now, also on this board they have a separate section for the audio, which features the SupremeFX S1220. I have tested the FX audio on the motherboards in the past, and it is really good, but on top of that, you are getting the feature set for the USB type-C out to go to your front panel. Now, moving down through the ROG X570 boards, we have the E Gaming. This features AX 6 WiFi 2.5 gig NIC, as well as 16 Power Stages. It takes away the OLED, but also does include some RPG display still included for the bling. Now, the memory does have one phase, and this is an important difference between these ROG boards and also the top tier ROG boards, is that they have two phases supporting for the memory, but again, still able to absolutely be fine for enthusiast overclockers on air and water. Those real top tier boards that you see, they're mainly for LN2O overclocking, or for someone who just wants the absolute best. And then, besides that we got the ROG X570-F, which again features still 16 Power Stages, but takes away the WiFi 6, but includes a 1 gigabit Intel NIC instead of the 2.5G solution. Now, another thing about the X570 ROG boards is that all of them come with USB Flashback. Essentially, you won't need RAM or a CPU installed in order to update your BIOS, which in the future if there's new CPUs coming out then you don't have to worry about having the newer gen CPU, buying that and not supporting that particular CPU. But, that's only six motherboards out the way. We still got another four to cover, and two of these are right beside me here. These are the TUF GAMING series. This is the X570-Plus WiFi and just the X570-Plus. Now, you do get two NVMe PCiE Gen 4x4 slots, one of those featuring a heat shield to help drop the temperatures down on the NVMe drive. All the chipset's heat sinks here as well do have a fan, whether it's more obvious or not obvious, but of course the WiFi versus the non-WiFi edition, you're just simply adding those extra features in. And then, moving on into the more value-orientated options here for the X570 boards is their Pro and P series. The Pro has 14 Power Stages similar to the TUF, and also features PCiE Gen 4x4. You get one of those with a heat sink and no integrated IO shield, just like the TUF GAMING series. Then, the last in the line is the X570-P, still has 12 Power Stages and it's the cheapest X570 board coming from Asus here, so they are taking care of you on the VRM side of things, but there is an NVMe slot, but there are no heat shields for those NVMe drives, so they are pretty much cutting down on everything, except the VRM to give you guys solid overclocks and a great experience that you would expect from using that Asus BIOS and getting all the overclocks you'd want on even a 12 core. So now, just like the motherboards, we've got a heap of different monitors to get through. This is the PG27UQX, 144Hz, HDR1000, 4k monitor with 576 local backlit zones. Now, this does support Nvidia's G-Sync technology but you will need some serious grunt to power this monitor properly. I'd be thinking somewhere in the lines of two RTX 2080 Tis, since it's of course 4k, 144Hz. But, checking this thing out, it does feature Mini LEDs, which is a new technology coming in that Asus is really going hard on, and they're putting on top of that a QLED layer, so you're getting the best colors coming through, coupled with an IPS screen. This thing looks absolutely gorgeous in person. Now, in terms of pricing and release dates that's still to be determined but I do hear this thing is very close to release. Next up here, we have the XG438Q. This is a large size gaming display, FreeSync 2, HDR600, 120Hz, VA panel, and of course it's 43 inches big, so you will need a lot of grunt, just like the monitor behind me to power this thing if you want to get it. It is slated for a quarter three release. The pricing is still to be determined, though I hear it's not gonna come in that too expensive, like you can expect to see this thing probably under 1500 dollars. Now, continuing on with monitors, we got the Asus TUF GAMING VG27AQ and also the 32VQ. Both of these feature a really high refresh rates. The 32-inch having 144Hz VA panel. Now, they've got ELMB with FreeSync enabled at the same time, which is pretty much a first for the monitor industry. That means you can change refresh rates, but still have that ultra low motion blur with the backlight flicking through. Now, this extends to the same 27-inch model, except that's got a 155Hz IPS panel. So, a little bit smaller but in my opinion does look a little bit better that the 32-inch. In terms of release dates and pricing, the pricing's still TBD, but the release dates are very close, so you can expect that out next month some time. Now, last up in the line of monitors is their flagships, essentially, which don't have a whole lot to do with gaming. This is the ProArt series, and in particular we're talking about the PA32UCX, which has Thunderbolt support, 1200 nits of CCD brightness, 10 bit, HDR 4k, IPS, and 100% sRBG color accuracy with 1152 backlit zones, and it's little brother the PA27UCX has 576 zones, HDR 10, and 1000 nits of CCD brightness. In terms of the pricing, it's still in the air. They don't give me any rough figures really to work with either, but you can expect these monitors to come out in quarter three. And now, last up in the lineup is peripherals, so we'll talk about their new electrostatic headsets, but they also have some new power supplies, the Strix 600 and 750 watt gold-rated power supplies. These are still to be determined in terms of release dates and pricing, but they are stepping it down from their Thor series making things more affordable. But, in terms of a headset, they have what's called the Theta, and this is electrostatic on the highs, and dynamic speakers for the lows. So, the headset does feature two individual speakers inside, and this is said to give you better bass, as well as giving you a clearer clarity on mid-range, and also the higher vocals. And, another headset they got as well is the ROG Theta 7.1, which is a true 7.1 gaming headset with speakers all out to give you that proper surround sound. And, on this particular headset, they do have a microphone that uses AI to actively cancel out repetitive noises that aren't that of a human voice. I did try this in motion, and it actually works pretty well. I was quite surprised, but in terms of release dates and pricing, you should see at the end of July, the Theta electric being released, and then September will be when the Theta 7.1 should come to market. As for one of the most underrated products here on display, I thought this was pretty cool. This is the ROG Strix Arion, and it's call the S1C, and it's got speeds up to 1000 megabytes per second. But, this is an external NVMe add-in solution. So, you can get your own NVMe card, add it in, and then on the mobile you can plug it into a USB that supports high speeds, and then you're good to go with really fast transfers. I'm hoping to get one of these in, so when I do my file transfers over USB 3.2 for example, I can then test out the speeds properly for you guys. In terms of release date and pricing, it is quarter three but the pricing is still to be determined. And, with that aside guys, I'm gonna quickly snip over to a very special snippet right now that is actually incredible. Before we close out this video however, there is something that I have been privileged to see, and I never even knew it existed. This is the only prototype in existence. This is a GTX 780 Ti Mars, and this was so close to-- (thriller music) And, that about wraps things up for the Asus ROG booth, and also their other booths that they have here for Computex 2019. If you guys enjoyed this video, then you know what to do. 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