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With all the latest SSDs available, which one is for you? Here a quick and easy guide! Also check out how fast two U.2 NVMe SSDs in RAID 0 can run on a Maximus VIII Hero Alpha!

ASUS becomes the world's first motherboard brand to offer NVMe support on 2.5" SSD and PCIE add-in card, across its whole range of consumer Z97/X99 motherboards.

We've put the new, ultra-slim G501 through some of Steams most played games: Team Fortress 2, Civilization 5: Brave New World and DOTA 2, along with latest FPS Dying Light to show you the best playable settings in Full HD and 4K that its Intel Core i7 quad-core CPU and Nvidia GTX 960M can offer.

We previously teased about its existence, and now in collaboration with Nvidia's latest GTX 960M graphics card, ASUS ROG has launched the G501 ultra-slim gaming notebook. It's available now, so check your local stores! Check inside for the picture gallery and full press release.

We've read your forum posts, your Facebook comments and emails; as one of our most popular articles ever we know you loved the GX500 when we showed it at Computex last year. Yet, as perfectionists, ROG engineers decided to continue to improve areas of the design. The result is the new G501, which is an evolution of the earlier '500. Where the GX500 wow'd at Computex by breaking boundaries on thinness, weight and performance, the G501 has these and more; we've made it even cooler, quieter and we've refreshed the hardware inside too.

Those who played the previous FarCry will instantly recognize some familiar tropes in the collection of fauna and flora that'll make you an expert in botany and 'arts & crafts', whilst the generous array of weapons, secondary attacks, skills and upgrades plucks the strings of RPG as much as FPS. Where FarCry 2 and 3 had you jumping in cars, boats and quads, FarCry 4 has you strapping on a wingsuit to glide over valleys, or hopping on an elephant to go rampaging. We test the G771JM and G551JM; ROG's 'mainstream' 17-inch and 15-inch gaming laptops with an Intel Core i7 4710HQ processor and Nvidia GTX 860M graphics to root out the best playable settings.

Leave your desktop at home, the most powerful gaming laptop ROG has to offer is here.

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