 Welcome to the ASUS booth. So I know in my preview I said ASUS had a wide variety of products here But I only showed like one motherboard. No, no, no, no, no They have more stuff than that ASUS is involved in everything from monitors to all-in-one PCs Notebooks tablets motherboards video cards networking even cases. I think although not really in North America So let's have a look at what they got here number one. They have a g53s So this is part of the gaming series that is also Populated by the g74 which is the 70 are rather. Yeah, the 17 inch version This is the 15 inch version these are I've actually done an unboxing of a g53 at one point So these are super beefy gaming machines with huge Cooling vents at the back and basically the Republic of gamers edition of what a notebook would be Next we've got the ASUS transformer pad TF-300 So this is kind of a lower cost version of the transformer prime It uses a plastic back instead of the metal back and personally I actually prefer this I've talked about the Galaxy Tab 10.1 How I like the plastic back because you don't worry about scratching it or like staining it with your fingerprints This makes sense to me Alright the mobile dock goes with it So the mobile lock adds not only a keyboard and additional expansion including not that but a USB as well as an SD slot But it also adds additional battery life So when you dock you can have up to 15 hours of battery life between the battery that's in here and the battery that's in here Together and also have the touchpad which you can use to navigate the Android OS that's on it Finally the Zenbook So the Zenbook is one that I actually did a full NCIX Tech Tips episode on and at that time The Zenbook had a bit of a quirk where down here the touchpad was non-responsive You can see with the latest Zenbook the mouse cursor is moving Can you see that the mouse cursor is moving? Even though I'm touching all of the touchpad it continues to move just fine So the Zenbook, the one problem that I might have had with it, gone Let's move around to the other side of the ASUS too Here we've got one of their all-in-ones, this is also something that I've done video coverage of in the past Although I had Windows 8 preview running on it, it looks like they've only got Windows 7 So my video is definitely cooler from last time than this one But it's a pretty neat little all-in-one machine, it's on my NCIX Tech Tips channel We've also got a couple of their high-end networking products including a wireless router here As well as another more different wireless router here, so this is the RT-N66U Dark Knight This is a phenomenally popular router at NCIX right now I actually don't know too much about it myself but I can tell you We're selling a lot of them and they aren't coming back so that's as strong an endorsement as there can be On the other side of the ASUS board booth we have their motherboards So we have everything from their RAM, our RAM cards, to their So that's it guys, I'm out. ATX gaming machine except in a micro ATX form factor. So that is SLI and crossfire compatible compatibility, awesome cooling, all the IO that you could possibly need except for that additional three expansion slots. We've also got the Saber Tooth Z77, which I think I've covered pretty thoroughly already. It looks like some of the dust covers have walked off, but yeah, one of them is still on here. That's where one of the fans goes, that's where the other fan goes. So it's got their thermal armor which allows you to basically keep all the components cool and free of dust. We've also got ASUS' VG series 27 inch, light boost compatible 3D display. As you guys probably know if you watch my show, I pretty much don't believe you should be buying a 3D display unless you get one with light boost. It makes an enormous difference in terms of the crosstalk between the images as well as the headache inducingness. Personally I get a headache from 3D vision 1, no headache 3D vision 2. Last but not least we've got a gaming machine over here that apparently Antec got their little paws on this one too because it's all Antec'd out as well as ASUS'ed out. So this is one of their DirectCU2 cards. ASUS is actually one of the few vendors that does triple slot graphics cards. Now while this may not be ideal for users who are running SLI, especially if you want like 3-way SLI or 3-way crossfire because they won't all fit in a board, it is ideal if you're running a single card because it means that you've got that much more metal strapped to your card keeping it cool. So if you can see from the bottom, you know what, I can't see from the bottom, this guy's actually got two cooling fans built in and the rest of the system is pretty neat too. This is a really neat power supply. There aren't many 80 plus platinum power supplies and not many low wattage ones. So what you'll discover is that most power supplies peak at around 50 to 60% load in terms of their efficiency. That's where they're going to hit their maximum efficiency. And with the highly efficient gaming parts that we have these days like GTX 680, Radeon HD 7970 as well as the new iV bridge processors, what we need in terms of high end power supplies is low wattage, extremely efficient power supplies in order to get the most out of them. Kingston also got their grubby paws on this booth with some HyperX memory going on in here as well as a HyperX SSD. Welcome to the Nvidia booth. Nvidia, I mean these guys are doing so much amazing stuff these days, not just with GeForce on the desktop but also with Tegra on the mobile side. So for their booth they've actually got, you can use these but personally I prefer the touchscreen in this case. They have an Asus tablet powered by an Nvidia Tegra chip that is outputting to here which looks really good and looks very impressive and all that stuff. But what is even more impressive is the fact that, hold on, how do I move? There we go. It's the fact that they have this going on the full sized 1080p TV right in front of me here. So you can play with your tablet, you can play with a remote controller, whatever you want. We are experiencing HD gaming at its finest in spite of the fact that this device is thinner than a phone which is pretty cool. So let's keep moving right along in the Nvidia booth here. We've got a couple of other things including the Asus Transformer Prime. So I've covered this one in the past already. This is running the Tegra 3 processor which is a 5 core processor. It has 4 main cores and 1 auxiliary core for power saving and you can check out my unboxing on my Linus Tech Tips channel if you want any more details on it. Tegra 3 basically turns Android into the experience that I thought it should have been. Tegra 2 is fast especially for things like gaming but in terms of the overall snappiness and responsiveness of the platform, Tegra 3 really kicks it up a notch. Remember Tegra 3 is a quad core effective versus 2 cores effective for Tegra 2. We've also got a couple pretty neat gaming notebooks here. 670s, 670s. 670s and 670s. So these are from MSI and Asus. This MSI model is actually the one that I'm more familiar with. This uses their custom steel series, designed by steel series backlit keyboard as well as their Dynaudio audio solution. Both of these are really a couple steps ahead of the competition in terms of what they're doing to make the tactile experience of your gaming notebook excellent as well as the audio experience. Now these are not for the faint of heart. These are thick notebooks. They're heavy however if you want the ultimate gaming experience on the go with a quad core processor, a high end Nvidia graphics card then that's pretty much what you're going to want to go with. New G75. And this is the new G75. So this is a brand new design. The G74 saw several revisions of CPUs as well as GPUs go into it before it looks like they have finally redesigned this notebook. I actually haven't seen this one yet. You can see remnants of the original G74 design like the way the hinges are positioned here. However it looks like they've completely redone the interior design so they've got a great soft touch feel here. This is actually a bit rougher than most soft touch which I think is a good thing because it will keep it from wearing out as quickly as most soft touch finishes do. In terms of IEO we've also got an upgrade here. We've got Blu-ray, SD, two USB 3 super speed ports and on the other side we have a wide variety of things actually. We've got more super speed USB. Two more of those. We've actually got HDMI, gigabit, ethernet as well as what the heck is that one? Is that thunderbolt? Looks like it's thunderbolt. Perk me if I'm wrong here guys but I think that's thunderbolt. Leave a comment under the video if I'm wrong. And coupled together with the Nvidia booth one of their board partners decided to come to the tech fair as well. Galaxy has got a beastly gaming machine going in here with one of their custom non-reference video cards that it looks like a GTX 670 GC with the dual fan cooling solution. So they've got that running. A 3D vision demo over here on this table. Oh no they don't have 3D vision. Sorry. They have 3D vision stuff here but they've got it running. Unigine heaven just so you can see how absolutely beastly it is. Also if you come check out the Galaxy booth make sure you bug them for one of these. I've got one. These are dead GPUs from RMAs over the years. So these are older GPUs and they put them in plastic and it makes for like a really cool little keychain. Finally they've got their line up of graphics cards. Unfortunately they don't have the GTX 670 or 680 here because they're rarer than hens teeth. However as a show deal we do have the GTX 670 for $369.99. That's a galaxy reference card which is pretty cool. However remember the GTX 670 and 680 are great for surround gaming but so is the MDT series from Galaxy. So they've got a 560, a 570, a 580 that are all capable of 3 monitor surround gaming. We actually did an NCIX TechTips on that not that long ago on the NCIXCOM channel. So thank you for checking out our coverage on all of the booths at the NCIX Tech Fair and don't forget to subscribe to Linus TechTips and NCIX TechTips.