ASUS Republic of Gamers Wins 11 European Hardware Community Awards 2017
ROG gaming motherboards, graphics cards, monitors, desktop and notebook PCs declared best in Europe in continent-wide survey of 20m technology enthusiasts
TAIPEI, Taiwan, December 22, 2017 —ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) today announced that it has received 11 accolades at the prestigious 2017 European Hardware Association (EHA) Community Awards. These awards are nominated and voted for by technology enthusiasts from across the continent who read the publications of the various EHA members, which include Cowcotland, Geeknetic, Hardware.Info, Hardware Upgrade, HardwareLuxx, KitGuru, Lab501, PurePC and SweClockers. With a combined audience of over 20 million informed minds, the EHA Community Awards represent the best of the best in the technology world.
ROG Crosshair VI Hero, ROG Strix Z270G Gaming and ROG Strix Z270I Gaming secured the top spots in the Best ATX Motherboard, Best Micro ATX Motherboard, and Best Mini ITX Motherboard categories, respectively. The Best NVIDIA® Graphics Card award went to ROG Strix GeForce® GTX 1080 Ti OC, while ROG Strix Radeon™ RX Vega64 OC Edition picked up the accolade for Best AMD® Graphics Card. In the Best Monitor and Best Gaming Monitor categories, the respective winners were ROG Swift PG348Q and ROG Swift PG279Q.
ROG GR8 II picked up two honors, winning both the Best Mini-PC and Best Gaming Desktop System awards. ROG Zephyrus won the Best Gaming Notebook and ASUS Zenbook UX410UA was awarded Best Notebook.
The full list of awards is available at www.eha.digital/awards/eha-community-awards-2017-winners-announced, and a roster of categories and ROG and ASUS awards is as follows:
- Best ATX Motherboard: ASUS ROG Crosshair VI Hero
- Best Micro ATX Motherboard: ASUS ROG Strix Z270G Gaming
- Best Mini ITX Motherboard: ASUS ROG Strix Z270I Gaming
- Best AMD Graphics Card: ASUS ROG Strix Radeon RX Vega 64 OC
- Best NVIDIA Graphics Card: ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 Ti OC
- Best Monitor: ASUS ROG Swift PG348Q
- Best Gaming Monitor: ASUS ROG Swift PG279Q
- Best Mini-PC 2017: ASUS ROG GR8 II
- Best Gaming Desktop System: ASUS ROG GR8 II
- Best Gaming Notebook: ASUS ROG Zephyrus
- Best Notebook: ASUS ZenBook UX410UA
Republic of Gamers: The Choice of Champions
ROG is dedicated to the pursuit of extreme performance and the delivery of ultimate gaming experiences to champions everywhere. Our stellar performance in the EHA Community Awards 2017 — as voted for by real-world technology enthusiasts — is recognition of our commitment to gaming and our success in satisfying our customers, who are among the finest gamers in the world.
ASUS is passionate about designing and producing outstanding products for wider consumer markets, and the EHA award for Best Notebook is another confirmation of our success in these endeavors.
ROG Crosshair VI Hero
ROG Crosshair VI Hero is a high-performance AMD X370 ATX gaming motherboard from the ROG stable, engineered with ASUS-exclusive T-Topology technology to minimize coupling noise and signal reflection, the latest ROG SupremeFX exclusive S1220 codec for exceptional 113dB signal-to-noise ratio on the line-in connection and 120dB on the line-out, plus Sonic Studio III’s routing feature to port audio streams to different outputs. The board also features ASUS Aura Sync, offering full RGB lighting control with a variety of functional presets for the built-in RGB LEDs — as well as for strips connected to the onboard RGB headers.
ROG’s innovative Water Cooling Zone allows users to monitor system cooling with dual water-temperature headers and a