ASUS AWARDS
Asus has achieved over 60 awards during Jan 2005 -Mar 2006.

Sr. No.	Award Picture	Product	Model	Date	Award Name	Publication Name	Country
1		Motherboard	ASUS A8N-VM CSM	2006/March	TOP BUY	PC USER	Australia
Remarks: Asus supplied us with the best example of how good Nvidia's new nForce 430 Chipset can be. Desite the higher price tag compared to the other examples the A8N-VM CSM continues the ASUS tradition of top drawer stable designs.Like the MSI K8NGM2 and Foxconn 6150K8MA, the A8N-VM CSM absolutely packs in the features the value is just incredible and nothing like anything we've seen before.
1		Graphic Card	ASUS Geforce 7800GT Top Silent	2006/February	Tweaktown Editors Choice	Tweaktown	Australia
REMARKS: The 7800GT TOP Silence graphics cards from ASUS were quite surprising. You have two cards that came pre-overclocked on a heatsink with no fan but not only that thanks to the faster memory used, you have even more head room for overclocking as we saw today. The package was also one of the best we have seen in a while with a very recent game like King Kong being included, more often then not we get these powerful graphics cards and a copy of Counter Strike or something else that can barley push the power of the cards inside. ASUS have done a TOP job all round from bundle to overclocking to quality. It is nice to know though that if you don’t want a noisy case, you can have the performance that you want with an SLI setup and not a 6600GT either... we are talking about two of the highest-end available graphics cards. There is no doubt that silence enthusiasts while be rejoicing over the release of the 7800GT heat pipe version, let’s hope that we see ASUS carry this technology onto some of the other higher-end cards including the X1900XTX which is very noisy.
2		Motherboard	ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe	2006/February	PC Authority Recommended	PC Authority	Australia
Remarks: With the demise of Gigabyte's A-Listed motherboard it was time to revisit the A8N32 Sli deluxe. The nForce4 Sli motherboard not only offers hardware firewalled Gigabit ethernetm a range of RAID options for the four serial ATA 2 port it feed and lightning quick core logic, but it also feeds two PCI express graphics slots.While may seem overkill, one decen graphics card is more then enough for most people it does offer a friendly upgarde path. Get one graphic card to power your games today and when it can't handle the new games you've just vought, add a second to near double performance on the cheap. The latest nForce drives now accept any two SLi able cards of the same chipset rather then twoidentical cards from the same manufacturer.
1		Motherboard	ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe	2006/January	Power Award	PC POWER PLAY	Australia
Remarks: Enter the A8N32-SLI Deluxe. It's one of the first boards to support the ture dual x16 PCI. That means both slots offer the full 16lanes, so your $1600+ of high end graphics can really stretch it's legs. What does this mean, in practical terms? Well as you might imagine, ask this board to do any of a wide range of graphical tasks and it performs about as well as any other fine SLI board with a X8 slots. But once you ramp up the resolutions and particulary the anti-aliasing you find tha the A8N32 SLI boosts performance by much as 50%. This is an awesome SLI board for users who demand extreme performance.
2		Optical	ASUS DRW-1608P2S	2006/January	Value Award	PC POWER PLAY	Australia
Remarks: Flick your eyes to the bottem of the review and you'll see this drive gets a very high score indeed. Why? Because it has the ultimate combination: awesome performance performance and an almost unbelievable price. For a scant $80 you get a burner tha can handel every kind of optical media on the market, and handle it at speed. Standard DVR+/-R manages 16x and DVD+/-R dual layer runs at 8x. If you're the kind of person who always wanted to dabble in the shell we say more exotic disc formats, but didn't want to spend big dollars on a drive capable ot it. then the 1608p2s is the drive for you. DVD-RAM is supported, at a top speed of 5x. Truly, dvd burners have become almost bafflingly cheap. in fact if it wasn't for the range of features on this drive, we might almost say it's a little bit toward the higher end of the current price range. As it is, the combination of fast, accurate burning, quiet operation, and support for the full range of media. makes the 1608P2S a real winner
3		Motherboard	ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe	2006/January	Highly Recommended	APC	Australia
Remarks: Nvidia's Frist generation SLY chipsets used some hacks to get two graphics vards working. When in mormal mode, the top PCI express graphics slot ran at full x16 speed, however when SLY was enabled, it split this bandwidth in to x8 PCI express connections. That said, the Asus A8n32-SLI Deluxe is an excellent motherboard, with good cooling for high performance component and a robust feature set that includes integrated HD audio eight-phase power and a swag of gaming focused tweaking utilities. It's not for everyone but for the power-hungry gamer who wants it all, the A8N32-SLI Deluxe is definitely one of the most tempting motherboards around.
4		Motherboard	ASUS P5ND32-SLI-Deluxe	2006/January	Recommended	PC Authority	Australia
Remarks: We last saw this board in a dual with the MSI P4N Diamond. It's since dropped $45 in price now making it significantly cheaper than the MSI board. It's certainly no lighweight product. The box is full of handy extras. Serial ATA cables are aboundent, while backplates provide extra USB ports and Fire Wire. The board itself is packed with extra controller chips. With a good board layout and excellent meanual, it's hard to find much to flualt beyond the NVIDIA chipset's lack of support for 2.8Ghz Pentium D chips. If This is an issue take a look at Intel's offering which also offers a weath of featrues.
5		Optical	ASUS DRW-1608P2S	2006/January	PC World Recommends	PC World	Australia
Remarks: If you looking for fast dual layer burning, then the buck stops with the ASUS DRW-1608P2S. It is the fastest double layer and single layer DVD burner we have had through the test centrem and it comes with support for every DVD and CD format. The ASUS Doulble Dynamic suspension system reduce vibration and controls resonant frequencies the highest speed of 8x on a 2.4x DVD+DL disc. the asus over speed burning immediately reconised our media and set it to 8X. It is the only DVD buner that has been able to burn 2.4X DVD-DL at 8x, Allowing for a full 7.2GB to be burnt in 17minutes, a rate of 7.05BMps The DVD+R 4GB Burn test with a 6x Disc was burnt in 7.5minutes, which was a little slower than other burners. However asus claims you can burn an 8x DVD+R disc at speeds of up to 12X. We didn't yield any speend increases using our 6x disc. Buffer underrun problem have been eliminated by the introduction of Flextralink technology, which coninually monitrs the buffer to prevent the creation of unusable disc. The burst rate was quite fast at 37MBps. Producing a transfer speed to the hard disk of 16MBps. Asus is leading the field in speed and is great value at $79
6	Pending	Graphic Card	ASUS 6600GT Silencer	2006/January	Product Of The Year	PC USER	Australia
Remarks: The most important decision when buying a graphics card is which 3D graphics processing unit (GPU) to choose. And when it comes to value, Nvidia leads by a conutry mile with its Geforce 6600GT. Packing in remarkable performance and often selling for under $250. 6600GT Cards have enough grunt to comfortaly handle any recent 3D games. The 6600GT is available in both AGP8X and PCI Express formats.The PCI Express version is SLI ready put teo of these together and you'll get better performance than a single Radeon X850XT. You'll have to spend well over $350 to find a better card, and for gamers on the budget, anything less is just a waste of time
7	Pending	Graphic Card	ASUS 7800 GT	2006/January	Product Of The Year	PC USER	Australia
Remarks: Nivdia's midrange Geforce 7800GT outperforms ATI's 7800 X8500XT, and although the new Radeon X1800 and X1300 series chips have been announced, we've seen nothing better ( at a reasonable price) then the 7800GT. The top-drawer Geforce 7800GTX is the outright best performer, but at around 70% of the cost, the 7800GT comes very close and it's SLI ready. The 7800GT loses steam at 1600X1200 pixels or above compared to the 7800GTX but put two them together and they'll handle just about anything.
8	Pending	Motherboard	ASUS P5ND2-SLI-Deluxe	2006/January	Product Of The Year	PC USER	Australia
Remarks: Pentium 4- based boards seem to be more exprensive than Athlon models, and for a serious boards with all the trimmings (such as Pentium D and Sli Support), you're looking at over $300. While intels's 945 and 955x chipset looked to follow on from the reliable 865 series, Nvidia's nForce4 SLi Chipset adds in lots of extras. This board packs in support for 1066Mhz frontside bus processors (where ever they turn up) plus Fire Wire, Dual Raid and gigabit ethernet. And with pentium D support, it's ideal for video editing. Asus boards aren't often cheap, but the good thing rarely are
9		Motherboard	ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe	2006/January	Editor's Choice	www.ocprices.com	Australia
Remarks: The Asus A8N32 SLI Deluxe is a superb motherboard that improves on an already great product. Its performance really speaks for itself, being considerably faster in gaming titles than the traditional nForce 4 SLI motherboards we have tested thus far. Since this increase was seen in both SLI and single-card setups, there is clearly more at work than simply more PCI-E lanes. Despite these positves, Asus has arguably worsened the layout of this board, with PCI slots now inconveniently placed between the PEG slots, and the Clear-CMOS jumper placed in seemingly the most awkward position possible.
10		Motherboard	ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe	2006/January	Editor's Choice	Tweaktown	Australia
Remarks: Hot damn, two heatpipe systems on the one board! From a purely pants-spanking perspective, the ASUS P5N32-SLI Deluxe oozes sex appeal in that particularly geek-festooned fashion. With a heatpipe cooling system, dual-Gigabit Ethernet, eight-phase power filtering, dual-core CPU support, and NVIDIA's new nForce 4 SLI x16 chipset there's no way this baby won't get the blood flowing to your nether region, unless you happen to be dead or de-sexed. Regardless, it's certainly an impressive lineup of the latest features on the market. Did we mention it has two heatpipe coolers?
1		Graphic Card	ASUS N6600GT Silencer	2005/December	TOP BUY	PC USER	Australia
Remarks: This was a damm good performer when it frist arrived and it's not surprising that Nvidia hasn't released a 7600GT in its place, as it still kicks some serious butt. In basic mode, you could stretch a 6600 GT to 1280X1024 pixels on splinter cell chaos theory (SCCT), but it's best suited for use at 1024 x 768 pixels, with a good average frames per seconds (fps) score of 53.37. With the added benefit of SLI support, two 6600 GTs can do some serious damage hitting a very respectable 56.52fps at a hefty 1600x 1200 pixels in our labs tests
2		Graphic Card	ASUS 7800GT	2005/December	TOP BUY	PC USER	Australia
Remarks: If you're looking for a sensible performance card that still leaves you money to spend on the latest games, this is the GPU you're after. The 7800 GT outpaced all previous generation GPU's including the GeForce 6800 Ultra and Redeon X850XT. It ticked over at just under 80fps at 1280 x 1024 pixels on SCCT, yet the difference between it at the much mor expensive 7800GTX on Doom 3 was all but non-existent. it really cranks it when you add a second card for SLI mode, outpacing ATI's X850 XT CrossFire Edition. All up, this is the best performance/ value GPU on the market today.
3		Notebook	ASUS W6	2005/December	WORTH BUYING	MEN'S STYLE	Australia
Remarks: These lightweight (1.86kg) notebook have a 34cm Widescreen incorporating Asus's Colour Shine Technology, which delivers exceptional image and motion- picture quality with enhanced colour density and saturation while they maybe small and light, there is no lack of power under the hood. includes Pwntium M processor and bluetooth. In the menory area you can have up to1.5GB Ram and a hard disk size max out at 100GB for those road warriors with the need for power in a small package.
4		Motherboard	ASUS A8N-SLI PREMIUM	2005/December	GOLD GEAR	PC Games Addict	Australia
Remarks: Motherboards are typically as boring as a box of bran flakes but thankfully the ASUS A8N-SLY Premium differs from the norm for a number of reasons. Firstly, rather than including a physical Sli switch on the board itself switching between single and dual graphics mode is done automatically through the Bois a far less fiddly method. The second main point of differentiation is the fanless design with the motherboard chipset being cooled by a heatpipe unit. suffice it to say, noise is minimal.
5		Graphic Card	ASUS N7800GTX TOP	2005/December	Power Award	PC Powerplay	Australia
Remarks: Have you got money to burn and you just don’t care about how sensible your purchases are? Then the ASUS N7800GTX TOP is for you. Put simply, it's the fastest 7800GTX we've yet seen, thanks to factory over clocking and an extreme cooling system.
6		Motherboard	Atomics Readers Award	2005/December	Atomics Readers Award	ATOMIC	Australia
Remarks: You had your say, you voted here on the Atomic site and the winners clearly emerged. The best in each important tech and games category were announced at the Big Deal evening at Atomic Live Here now is the complete list of all the winners and runner-ups. Thanks to everyone who voted, and congratulations to all the winners – you know that if you got voted in by Atomicans then you deserved to win!
1		Graphic Card	ASUS N7800GTX TOP	2005/November	Gold Gear	PC Games Addict	Australia
Remarks: The reason asus received the award was for the design of the fan and the performance of the card. Being overclocked by default, the card outperformed the Gigabyte 7800GTX by a tangible margin. The down side to thing is the size of the card, making it pretty hard do SLY configuration.
2		Graphic Card	ASUS N7800GTX TOP	2005/November	Power Award	PC Powerplay	Australia
Remarks: Pc Powerplay love the card due to it's proformance and how quite the fan is for a GTX card. Visual quality is where this card really excels though thanks to splend video enhancement.
3		Graphic Card	ASUS Extreme AX700 Silencer	2005/November	Innovative Hardware	Legion Hardware	Australia
Remarks: Legion hardware awarded Asus an award due to innovative design and lack of noise level.
4		Motherboard	ASUS P5N32-SLI Deluxe	2005/November	Performance Award	Legion Hardware	Australia
Remarks: The ASUS P5N32-SLI Deluxe is the first motherboard to pass though the Legion Hardware testing labs sporting the new nForce4 X16 SLI “Intel Edition” chipset. ASUS has done well in getting their new nForce4 X16 SLI boards onto the market, many manufacturers are still yet to achieve this. With almost no design or operating flaws, the P5N32-SLI Deluxe is a incredibly impressive motherboard. That said I feel the ASUS P5N32-SLI Deluxe clearly deserves the Legion Hardware “Performance Award”.
5		Motherboard	ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe	2005/November	Performance Award	Legion Hardware	Australia
Remarks: Clearly the only technical upgrade featured on this motherboard is the x16 SLI support. This feature as not actually featured in this review as my second GeForce 7800 GTX card is out of action at the moment. Nevertheless, I am not much of an SLI fan so testing this feature was never high on my priority list. The ability to run both graphics cards in SLI mode using 32-lanes is impressive, though at the moment it offers no real benefits. However, as I mentioned in my introduction this kind of feature does help future proof the motherboard. The next generation of NVIDIA graphics cards will most likely require more bandwidth and therefore should see real benefits from an x16 SLI design.
6		Graphic Card	ASUS 7800GT Dual	2005/November	Editor's Choice	Tweaktown	Australia
Remarks: The 7800GT Dual is for people who want what is probably the coolest graphics card solution on the market at the moment and not afraid to spend the dollars and is not for people who think their SLI budget can stretch no further than a pair of 6600GTs. We have also just noticed that ASUS have added to the list of Supported Motherboards which now includes the highly popular Gigabyte K8NXP SLI and DFI Lanparty UT SLI-DR. We assume it would also support the highly anticipated SLI-DR Expert as well due out in the coming weeks.
1		Graphic Card	ASUS AX 800 Silencer	2005/October	Performance Award	Legion Hardware	Australia
Remarks: Overall, even at a slight price premium the ASUS Extreme AX800 Silencer is still an outstanding graphics card offering superior performance along with rock solid stability. Not only is the frame rate performance impressive at this price range, but so too is the stunning visual quality and highly stable performance. The current generation mid-range graphics cards are certainly amongst the best value solutions ever released. However, despite the fact that this Radeon X800 is a good value product, I am going to give it the Legion Hardware “Performance Award” award!
2		Optical	ASUS DRW-1608P	2005/October	Gold Gear	PC Games Addict	Australia
Remarks: With no official word on whether HD-DVD or Blu-Ray (or neither) will be the next standard in optical storage, improvement to standard DVD burning technology have few and far between. Yet ASUS continues to refine its
1		Motherboard	ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe	2005/September	Best Feature Must Have	APC	Australia
2		Graphic Card	ASUS 7800 GTX TOP	2005/September	Editor's Choice	Tweaktown.com	Australia
Remarks: ASUS , while extremely well known for high-quality and feature-packed motherboards, graphics cards and notebooks , aren’t necessarily the most popular. Their whole line-up of products does carry that normal ASUS premium which most people don’t have trouble justifying on motherboards and notebooks but when it comes to graphics cards, we’ve always thought that they are not worth paying the extra dollars – purely because they weren’t all that different from the competition but carried a higher price tag.
3		Graphic Card	ASUS 6600GT Silencer	2005/September	Performance Award	Legion Hardware	Australia
Remarks: ASUS has provided yet another very competitive, very unique GeForce 6600 GT product. The ASUS Extreme N6600GT Silencer is undoubtedly the most impressive looking GeForce 6600 GT solution on the market. Although ASUS has strictly followed the NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT reference board design, their product is far from generic. The card features a highly modified cooling setup for the GPU which is constructed from copper and aluminum. Not only does this cooling setup do an exceptional job at keeping the graphics card cool, it also allows for quite a bit of overclocking headroom.
4		Motherboard	Asus P5WD2 Premium	2005/September	Editor's Choice	Tweaktown.com	Australia
Remarks: ASUS is one of the biggest names in motherboard history. From its humble beginnings of stable, well trusted platforms, to being the head of the overclocking community in my opinion, beating out ABIT, ASUS has managed to keep stability, quality and feature packed boards in line with great overclocking options.The ASUS P5WD2 motherboard continues on from the P5AD2-E motherboard, designed using the same principals, with a few extra options to add spice to the end-users world. Overall the amount of features are well balanced with support for Crossfire coming and possibly even SLI. The ASUS P5WD2 motherboard is definitely one to get your hands on from a variety of different angles
5		Motherboard	ASUS A8N-SLI DELUXE	2005/September	Hot Award	ATOMIC	Australia
Remarks: This Nforce4 board was made for the tweaking power user, with a 9-step DIMM voltage control and a vcore modifier with a precision of 0.0152v. These all greatly help in getting that perfect overclock, pushing your CPU as far as possible, pretty much right on the verge of collapse. which is damm cool, in a heated sort of way.
6		Optical	ASUS DRW-1608P	2005/September	Best Value	NetGuide	Australia
Remarks: The DRW-1608P is one of few buners to currently support noth double-layer formats: DVD-RDL and DVD+R DL. It comes with a good manual, all necessary screws and cables, plus Ulead DVD Moviefactory for DVD Movie Creation and Nero for all your other burning need.
7		Motherboard	ASUS P5LD2-DELUXE	2005/September	Gold Geluxe	PC Games Addict	Australia
Remarks: Comprting head on with the ECS PF% Extreme, the ASUS PL5D2- Deluxe is a Pentium 4 motherboard based on the 945P chipset that offers a host of unique features to set iy self apart from the comprtition.
1		Notebook	W2P00VC	2005/August	PC Authority Recommended	PC Authority	Australia
Remarks: We dubbed the Asus “The Black Box’ because, like its aeronautical namesake, it records everything. This is one of the sexiest notebooks of the bunch, with magnets instead of a screen latch helping it keep it’s slime line figure. Under he bonnet nestled alongside the fastest Pentium-M processor in the roundup, is a dual analog/digital TV Tuner.
2		Graphic Card	Asus Extreme N6600GT	2005/August	Value Award	PC Power Play	Australia
Remarks: Video cards based on the 6600GT core are becoming more and more the transition point between budget and performance, providing an excellent balance of both. The N6600GT from Asus is no exception to this. It hasn’t gone overboard in the features.
1		Wireless HDD	Asus WLHDD 2.5	2005/July	Best Feature Must Have	Tweaktown.com	Australia
Remarks: In all, ASUS has put together a great first time package for the cheap NAS and AP market. The design is solid, as are the upgrade options for the hard disk . At the present, 80GB notebook drives are available as the largest capacity, with 100, 120 and 160GB drives on the way, making the option for NAS all that more promising - however are two major flies in the ointment . The first is transfer rates. With only a 54mbps Wireless link, large files across the air is slow and sometimes painful, however, for streaming media the unit is a perfect for video, photos and various other multimedia content. The next logical step is to go 108mbps Turbo or Super-G to boost overall transfer rates. The second fly is SATA. SATA has now taken hold on the desktop platform with numerous ports, faster data transfer rates, lower voltages and smaller connectors, and the laptop sector ahs also shown signs of swapping to SATA drives in notebooks. This means that larger notebook drives will most likely come out in SATA only, leaving this baby in the lurch. That said, we don’t have to worry for a few years of IDE notebook drives disappearing from the shelves, but finding the larger density ones in IDE when SATA is poised to take the notebook market on seems like a dark cloud to us.
2		Motherborad	P5ND2-SLI DELUXE	2005/July	PC World Recommends	PC World	Australia
Remarks: The new ASUS P5ND2-SLI Deluxe is a Pentium 4 based motherboard equipped to handle the latest and equipped to handle the latest and greatest components you throw at it
3		Notebook	ASUS V6000V	2005/July	APC Highly Recommended	APC	Australia
Remarks: Over the past year, ASUS has spent a great deal of time and effort selling the differentiating components of its range of notebooks in an overcrowded market. Like the preceding W1 entertainment model the v6000v features a bruched magnesium alloy casing and clasp- free screen. the only desigen complaint is that the grille for the front-mounted speaker sits right under the palms of your hands. after a few months work the tiny hole are likely to be filled with grime
4		Optical	ASUS DRW-1608P	2005/July	APC Editor's Choice	APC	Australia
Remarks: Fast and feature packed is the best desription for ASUS's DRW-1608P drive . Capable of 6x Burning double layer discs, this drive wrote 8.5GB of data in touch under 19min,at an average speed of 5.84 it can also burn +R discs at 16x.
5	Pending	Notebook	ASUS M5A	2005/July	Roam Highly Commended	Roam	Australia
Remarks: The Asus M5A hardware configuration had us slightly puzzled when we cracked upon the chassis for a look-see. While it uses the updated Pentium M processor and motherboard introduced with introduced with Intel's Sonoma platfrom, it doesn't embrace any of the other new technologies that this chipset enables, such as improved Wi-Fi and graphics.
6		Motherborad	ASUS P5ND2-SLI-Deluxe	2005/July	Hot award	Atomic	Australia
Remarks: Finally, NVIDIA has developed an nForce chipset for the intel platfrom and it's looking might tasty. It doesn't surprise us that it can't quite perform at the level of intel'd 925XE, because of an immature memory controller but nonetheless it still manages to put up a good figh with SLI and SATA RAID 5.
7		Motherborad	Asus P5WD2 Premium	2005/July	Hot award	Atomic	Australia
Remarks: Of the two 955x motherboards we raked in, the 955x mobo variant comes equipped with two PCI Express 16x expansion slots. This isn't an nForces4 board, so we were somewhat surprised to discover ASUS psuedo-SLI setup. A quad- display setup isn't out of the question, but also equipped with a version of SLI, this is pretty big. Time to get your pants wet.
1		ASUS N6800 Ultra	ASUS N6800 Ultra	2005/June	Power Award	PC Power Play	Australia
Remarks: This top of the line card from Asus comes in a very well-appointed package with plenty of extras.
1		Wireless Router	Asus WL-530g Pocket Wireless	2005/Apirl	NetGuide Best Value	NetGuide	Australia
Remarks: The Wl-530g is possibly the smallest four-port wirleless router that we have ever seen that could actually be a problem: if you load up he device with cables, you'll need to find some way to another it in place or it could be pulled pf the desk by the sheer weight of cables. Other wise, this is a great-value networking device.
2		Graphic Card	Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe	2005/Apirl	Editor's Choice	APC	Australia
Remarks: The Asus beats the other to the line mostly thanks to its comprehensive accessories and extras, though Wi-Fi woeld mke it a killer. The Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI takes a very close second place. Wi-Fi makes an appearance, and the board's specification and construction are impeccable. However, its software bundle isn't as camplete as that of the Asus ASN-SLI deluxe
3		Notebook	Asus A4L Notebook	2005/Apirl	Best Buy	PC WORLD	Australia
Remarks: Although the A4L is a great for students, or anyone on a budget, there are some things you need to keep in mind.A bugget buy that looks good and includes some nice options (firewire, tv-out, card reader) and frees extras (mouse, carry bag). You don't get a dvd writer and the processor doesn't help with battery life, but you do get a notebook that's quite capable given its price.
4		Notebook	Asus V6000V	2005/Apirl	Best Buy	PC WORLD	Australia
Remarks: Here is another portable option for the mobile professional or student requiring the latest performance with the usual weight. Big application performance and sleek physical appearance characterise this well-weighted machine.
5		Graphic Card	Asus Extreme AX800XT-PE	2005/Apirl	Elite Choice	OC Prices	Australia
Remarks: The Asus Extreme AX800XTPE is certainly one of the best cards your can buy - with its great performance and overclockability. However, at a time when X850's are almost ahead of X800XTPE's in terms of supply, the strong motive to buy this card is certainly lost.
1		Graphic Card	EAX800XL	MAR. 2005	Supreme Value	Legion Hardware	Australia
Remarks: The Overall, the ASUS Extreme AX800XL is an exceptional product. The chip featured on a particular graphics card may be the most important aspect of the card, there are other features that will make such a card unique. Such features include the card's software bundle, overclocking abilities and design. ASUS has done an excellent job incorporating a great deal of software into the Extreme AX800XL package. Of course there are also quite a few cables and connectors included that add functionality to the product. Bottom-line is the ASUS Extreme AX800XL has proved that it can deliver high-end performance at a bargain basement price.
2		Graphic Card	V9950GE	MAR. 2005	Value Rating	NetGuide	Australia
Remarks: The ASUS V9950 Gamer edition video card is built for those who want great graphics, but don't want to fork out big bucks for the latest and greatest video card. The most realistic, highly detailed graphics are obtainable with this card and it is a great addition to any computer that supports 8x AGP.
3		Graphic Card	EAX850	MAR. 2005	Hot Award	Atomic	Australia
Remarks: NVIDIA's 6800 Ultra is one of those chips that come along and lets you do just about anything. The ASUS EN6800 Ultra is fast - so fast that games won't be snapping at its heels anytime soon. With all the extra goodies in the box such as Doom 3 and even a eb cam for ASUS' GameFaceLive, ASUS has one hot package.
1		Motherboard	ASUS A8N SLI Deluxe	FEB. 2005	PC world recommends	PC World	Australia
Remarks: This board provided excellent stability during testing and has a vast array of connectivity and next generation features to play with. Its dual PCIe graphics slots can be used for SLI operation or for connecting up to four monitors at the same time.
1		Server Motherboard	NCL-DS	JAN. 2005	Best Performance	TweakTown	Australia
Remarks: On the part of ASUS, the NCL-DS is definitely a motherboard I would feel comfortable with having in my server room. Power supply to the CPU’s are above the Intel requirements, its support for the server class storage with SCSI and SATA connectors as well as legacy IDE gives it a maximum storage potential of over 21 drives which is more than enough for a mid tier server environment. In all, ASUS, who are more of the desktop specialists, have done a fantastic job with the NCL-DS motherboard.
2		Motherboard	K8N-E	JAN. 2005	Top Buy Award	PC User	Australia
Remarks: The socket 754 K8N-E Deluxe board, when combined with an Athlon 64 3200+ chip, might be one of the most cost-effective ways to get into this platform. The board is reasonably priced at $235, but add around $350 for the Athlon 64 3200+ and youve still only spent half ot cost for an AMD Athlon 64 3800+ chip and MSIs K8N Neo 2 board.
3		Motherboard	A8N-SLI Deluxe	JAN. 2005	Editor's Choice	TweakTown	Australia
Remarks: We would normally do a Pros and Cons section at the end of this final page we can simply say the Pros are everything about it - the look of two cards in a single system, the pure speed, the gaming experience, the satisfaction knowing that at this point in time your gaming experience isn’t able to be any better and Cons, yeah it’s expensive but so are Ferrari’s and if you want the best you have to pay through the nose for it.
4		Motherboard	ASUS P5AD2 Premium	JAN. 2005	Best Performance	TweakTown	Australia
Remarks: ASUS is definitely one of the biggest motherboard names out there, and when they give you a premium classed motherboard, you get a board packed with features. The ASUS P5AD2 was one of these boards; the P5AD2-E continues this. The P5AD2-E has all of the features and abilities of the original 925X motherboard, but with the latest I925XE chipset and support for 1066FSB makes it a board hard to go past.
5		Motherboard	Asus Extreme n6600GT	JAN. 2005	PC world recommends	PC World	Australia
Remarks: It beat the other cards in its class in every single test that we ran and it did so very convincingly. We recommend this card because of this useful bundle and its best in class performance.
6		Motherboard	ASUS P5AD2 Premium	JAN. 2005	Gold Gear	PC GamesAddict	Australia
Remarks: Overall, even with the price premium the ASUS Extreme N6600GT is still an exceptional graphics card boasting excellent performance and rock solid stability. The GeForce 6600 GT is a first class product. Not only has the frame rate performance dazzled me, but so too has the stunning visual quality and highly stable performance. The current generation mid-range graphics cards are certainly amongst the best value solutions ever released
7		Motherboard	A8N SLI Deluxex	JAN. 2005	Performance	Legion Hardware	Australia
Remarks: Clearly the A8N-SLI Deluxe is unquestionably going to be one of the best SLI motherboards money can by. The board is loaded with good stuff such as Dual Gigabit LAN with Firewall, Firewire, Advanced RAID, NVIDIA SLI, Serial ATA, USB 2.0 and many more features. Of course there is also the incredibly long list of ASUS brand features and utilities that make this board special. When using a particular motherboard, these features and utilities can prove invaluable for even the most experienced users. Utilities that can overclock certain things from the comfort of WindowsXP are great for novice users.
8		Motherboard	ASUS P5AD2 Premium	JAN. 2005	Editor's Choice	OC Prices	Australia
Remarks: Well, what can I say? This motherboard combines the most expansive set of features for any desktop motherboard I have tested with its superior overclocking capability. The ability to scale beyond 330 MHz FSB easily without any modifications done to the board and with full stability makes this board a must for extreme LGA775 overclockers. We were faced with stability issues at above approximately 340mhz, and we will keep you updated on whether extra cooling or voltage will alleviate these issues. At the end of the day, what does the extra ¡§E¡¨ stand for in this P5AD2-E Premium motherboard? Easily overclocked, Expansive features, Extreme overclocking, but regrettably, Extremely Expensive.

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