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Our friends at [H]ardOCP are giving away a limited-edition Sabertooth Z97 Mark S and Strix GTX 980 in celebration of ASUS hitting our recent 500 million motherboard sales mark! For a chance to win, simply share a story of your ASUS motherboard history in their forums.

ASUS is excited to receive another HardOCP Gold Award for its Strix GTX 970 DirectCU II!

The MARS 760 graphics card still achieved the Editors Choice Gold - the highest accolade [H] offers - for use with single displays up to 1600p. The [H] team will follow up the review for surround gamers and with overclocking testing soon. Hit the link below to read the full, in-depth review!

Tech tough-guy's HardOCP have reviewed the Maximus VII Formula, with the final outcome awarding it their coveted Gold standard. We've captured the bottom line below, but you should really grab a cup of coffee and read the full 7 pages covering the full feature breakdown, sound quality analysis, performance, gaming and overclocking tests.

Rampage V Extreme Review Roundup - the first batch! Here's one video, click inside to read or watch a whole lot more.

HardOCP has got its hands on the upcoming R9 290X DirectCU II and are already busy testing it! See their first thoughts and gallery of pictures on the HardOCP site.

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 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!