Modders and overclockers powered by Asus

MANILA, Philippines - Asus recently invited top overclocker Mike “DJSub” Patelo to PGF 2012 in order to showcase his overclocking skills and the extreme overclocking capabilities of the ROG series of motherboards, as well as offer free advice and tutorials about overclocking to anyone who dropped by the Asus booth.

He also took the time to educate curious users and passersby about the Asus products that make it possible for him to break world records such as the exclusive OCKey from the Maximus V Extreme.

Side-by-side with the Philippines’ top overclocker was Paul Tan and the talented case modders from RigNoobies who were invited to show off their modded and custom-made, Asus-powered rigs.

In a surprising turn of events, three of these rigs recently bagged the first, second and third places in an international case modding contest held at rog.asus.com.

In order, the winners were Camshow who won a Maximus V Formula, Tantric who won an Asus HD7850-DC2-2GD5-V2, and anthony8659 who won a Maximus V Gene. To learn more about their rigs and the contest, input this link into your browsers — http://bitly.com/Oi9QcI.

Maximus V Formula Z77-based motherboard

While there are casual gamers, there are gamers who demand only the best from their machines, and often this means turning up every setting to the max.

To cater to their special needs, Asus offers the Maximus V Formula to form the basis for their systems. This motherboard caters to hardcore gamers and PC modders with the innovative Fusion Thermo that uses a hybrid design that can be switched between convenient air-cooled setups and active water-cooling for superior heat dissipation.

This design combines a pure copper water-cooling channel with electroplated nickel barbs along with an integrated heat pipe buried beneath air-cooling fins. It helps achieve that overclocking edge when it comes to gaming and benchmarking.

The upgraded SupremeFX IV utilizes premium audio capacitors, a 300ohm headphone amplifier, and exclusive Red Line Shielding to isolate analog and digital signals from interference to deliver up to 110dB SNR in-game audio.

Maximus V Extreme Z77-based motherboard

For the extreme overclockers, the Maximus V Extreme motherboard is equipped with the latest ROG Extreme Engine DIGI+ II technology that ensures optimum energy efficiency through the use of digital controllers for providing precise overclocking control over the CPU, DRAM, and iGPU.

It also features Japanese Nichicon GT-Series 10K black metallic capacitors that last up to five times longer than standard solid capacitors.

The Maximus V Extreme features OCKey, a hardware-based overclocking attachment that features an onscreen graphical overlay that displays the parameters of OSD TweakIt and OSD Monitor.

The former gives on-the-fly access to key system settings, while the latter offers advanced system monitoring and POST tracking with no additional hardware or software requirements.

Subzero Sense provides accurate subzero temperature monitoring for critical components without having to utilize professional thermometers; while VGA Hotwire headers offer precise, hassle-free graphics card overclocking with a simple soldering task on the voltage points of the board and select Asus graphics cards.

NVIDIA Kepler Powered GTX 680 DirectCU II TOP

The Asus GeForce GTX 680 DirectCU II TOP graphics card delivers a true flagship product for dedicated PC gamers and performance enthusiasts.

The TOP-selected 28nm NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 GPU has been overclocked by Asus to 1201MHz to boost frame rates in games, offering users 143MHz over reference.

Its Asus-designed DirectCU II thermal design runs 20 percent cooler than stock, while the twin 100-mm fans keep noise at bay with 14dB quieter operation.

Asus also added the 10-phase DIGI+ VRM which digitally regulates power delivery with 30 percent noise reduction, and works in tandem with durable Super Alloy Power components that last 2.5 longer than reference.

Furthermore, users can tap the greater overclocking and overvolting capabilities of the card through both the hardware-level VGA Hotwire and the software-level GPU Tweak utility.