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After HardOCP did an unboxing, an Editor's Choice Gold Award was bestowed upon the ROG Maximus VIII Formula! With a hybrid air and liquid cooling waterblock, full armour front and back, Aura RGB lighting, and a feature list so long it's not funny, it's nice to see all the hard work ROG engineers have put in didn't go unnoticed.

According to HardOCP.com, the Z87-WS are purpose tuned for the workstation market, with plethora of workstation-class features, ASUS quality manufacturing as well as an overall ease of use and out-of-the-box error free experience. Together this was enough to receive the HardOCP's Editor's Choice Enthusiast Silver Award.

The ASUS R9 270 DirectCU II OC review at Techpowerup was granted an Editors Choice award and a score of 9.2 by Graphics Editor, W1zzard. The R9 270 DirectCU II OC is based on AMD's Pitcairn GPU and features a full custom design with DirectCU II cooler and a factory overclock. According to Techpowerup the R9 270 DirectCU II OC sits right in the sweet-spot segment for gamers, at just below US $200.

Anandtech's Maximus VI Impact review dives into the details of the mini-ITX ROG motherboard, eventually awarding it with its Editors' Choice Silver award. Anandtech describes the ASUS ROG Maximus VI Impact as "nearer the pinnacle of mini-ITX design than any design previous".

With the Radeon R9 270 DirectCU II OC 2GB there is a powerful R9 270 graphics card, which break out of the AMD reference design in order to embrace improvements. With the DirectCU II design gamers don't only get an improved cooler, which is capable of keeping temperatures as well as noise level very low, there is also an improved power design, that comes on a custom PCB.

The RSS feed has been full of ROG reviews hitting the net lately, so clearly it's been a busy week in the media review labs! See the latest Crosshair V Formula-Z and MATRIX HD 7970 reviews below. If you spot any more, be sure to give us a shout!

It would be an understatement to say everyone here at ROG is delighted (and surprised) to receive the honor of Anandtech's Editors Choice Gold Award. Thank you, Anandtech for your kind words and recognition. While I'm only cutting the conclusion for your titillation above, it would be a disservice to not thoroughly encourage reading all the thoughts and weighted arguments in the full article linked below. Click inside to read more.

“A mainboard like that makes you a king. It will be very hard to find a better mainboard than ASUS Crosshair V Formula." Awesome!