
Asus also has a strong presence in the gaming industry as they have created a subsidiary of RoG (Republic of Gamers). By 2010 Garmin and Asus designed six smartphones in collaboration, however, this partnership was swiftly ended as Garmin pulled out of this market. As of 2021, Asus is the world’s fifth larges motherboard manufacturer. Today, Asus is a well-established manufacturer of computer parts, laptops, monitors, graphics cards, all kinds of multimedia tech, computer peripherals and much more. is a Taiwan based computer hardware company founded in 2nd of April 1989. The margins are incredibly tight.AsusTek Computer Inc. Likewise, sub-300MB/s in HDTach and a maximum bus overclock of 300MHz relegate this board to a mid-table position overall. It's also a couple frames slower than the best in World in Conflict. It's joint fastest in video encoding, but a second off the pace in Cinebench. Strictly speaking, the M4A88TD-V Evo delivers slightly patchy results in our application tests. The core unlocker ensures you can make the most of AMD CPUs with hidden cores, while the Express Gate embedded Linux OS divvies up a quick booting option for fast access to the internet and media files.Īll of which just leaves space for the minor matter of performance. Still, Asus' comprehensive set of BIOS features and options goes a long way towards making up for that. Bumping up a Phenom II from 3.2GHz to 3.45GHz is hardly worth the bother. In practice it doesn't deliver terribly impressive results. However, what you do get is the TurboV Evo auto-overclocking dip switch. Of course, it's questionable whether the full 16 lanes is essential for dual-GPU gaming thanks to the enormous 500MB/s per lane delivered by PCI-e 2.0.Īs for non-chipset-related shortcomings, you don't get a handy hardware switches for power, reset and clear CMOS. Where the 890FX can pony up two x16 electrical links, the 880G can only manage two x8 or a single x16. The 880G also plays second squaw to the 890FX discrete chipset in terms of PCI-e lanes. The 880G's Radeon HD 4250 integrated GPU runs at 560MHz to the 890GX's 700MHz Radeon HD 4290 core. The only significant drawbacks involve graphics.
