ASUS Breaks Record with 13 Wins at 2016 iF Design Awards

ASUS won 13 prestigious 2016 iF Product Design Awards, setting a new record number of wins for the company in a single iF Design Award competition. Spanning four product design categories — Computer, TV/Camera, Telecommunication, and Sports/Leisure — the award-winning products represent the ASUS commitment to design and engineering excellence. 

iF Design Awards are recognized worldwide as seal of quality for products that excel in specific criteria including design quality, degree of innovation, functionality, ergonomics and more. An independent jury of 58 experts from all over the world assesses products and selects winners.

ROG made its contribution with two of the awards. Here are the two award-winning product lines:

ROG GT51

The yet-to-be-released ROG GT51 first shown off at CES 2016 is a beastly gaming desktop boasts a liquid-cooled 6th-generation Intel Core i7-6700K processor with Turbo Gear for one-click 4-core CPU overclocking without rebooting, configured with up to the latest NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan X in 2-way SLI for 4K UHD gaming on multiple displays, two 512GB M.2 PCIe Gen. 3 x4 SSDs in RAID 0 (for speed) and 64GB of 2800MHz DDR4 memory.

ROG GT51 features an advanced thermal solution with 12-way airflow, comprised of a silent, liquid-cooling system for the CPU, isolated air flow for the power supply, and an internal air tunnel that draws cool air into the chassis to cool the graphics card, ensuring cool temperatures and system stability during marathon gaming sessions. In addition to extreme performance, ROG GT51 has an aggressive design with dynamic lighting effects that gamers can customize using a palette of up to 8-million colors to create their own unique avatar. The ROG BAND wearable accessory lets gamers automatically access Shadow Drive — their own hidden hard drive space that lets them manage personal confidential data safely — or activate overclocking. The included AEGIS II application lets gamers monitor system performance, record and edit gameplay with Gamecaster, and easily share their gaming experiences on social media.

ROG Swift PG Series

ROG Swift PG Series gaming monitors represent a new generation of advanced displays designed to provide gamers with impressive levels of detail. The latest ROG Swift PG348Q is a 34-inch gaming monitor with a curved Ultra-Wide Quad HD (UWQHD) 3440 x 1440-resolution IPS panel.. The 21:9 aspect ratio provides an immersive panoramic gaming experience with built-in G-SYNC technology and a 100Hz rapid refresh rate for ultra-smooth gaming visuals with no screen tearing or lag. Users can select between 60Hz and 100Hz refresh rates on the fly with the help of the Turbo Key.

ASUS GamePlus gives users four different crosshair options, an in-game timer, and an FPS counter for an added advantage in first-person-shooter and real-time-strategy games, while ASUS GameVisual technology provides six preset display modes for optimized gaming visuals. Powerful built-in stereo speakers deliver incredible sound for gaming.

Swift PG348Q sports a new ROG Armor Titanium and Plasma Copper color scheme, and features ROG light effects built into its stand to really make an impression.

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 In the Computer category, ASUS won design awards for the VivoMini VC65 Series of mini PCs; TUF Sabertooth Z170 Mark 1 motherboard; ROG GT51 gaming desktop; Transformer Book T100HA detachable laptop; VivoBook K401 and VivoBook K501 laptops; Chromebook Flip C100 Chrome OS device; Chromebook C201 Chrome OS notebook, VivoBook X456, VivoBook X556, and VivoBook X756 laptops; and Chromebit, the world’s smallest Chrome OS device. The ZenBeam E1 portable LED projector and ROG Swift PG Series of gaming monitors won awards in the TV/Camera category, ZenWatch 2 (WI502Q) won an award in the Telecommunication category, and ASUS VivoWatch won an award in the Sports/Leisure category. The award-winning products were selected from a competitive field of 5,295 entries from 53 countries.

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