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AMD in padding out your gaming library when you upgrade to a RX 570 or RX 580 GPU.
Score yourself 3 full titles when you upgrade from your tired, dusty, probably overheating GPU. :P
On top of upgrading a GPU, if you grab our Black Howler Gorilla Rig or a Howler Monkey Gorilla Rig you are still eligible.
The titles included are as follows:
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There has been no better time to upgrade your GPU. Not only are there amazing titles, like Far Cry Primal, Tom Clancy's: The Division and Hitman being released around this time… But NVIDIA and AMD have come to the party to hook you guys up with these games for FREE for a limited time only!
This is going to be all kinds of confusing to explain… But here goes…
From team NVIDIA:
ASUS
980 TI, 980 or 970 and score yourself Far
Cry Primal and Tom
Clancy's: The Division.
ASUS
Titan X and score yourself a copy of Far
Cry Primal.
Any GTX 980 TI,
980 or 970 and score a copy of Tom
Clancy's: The Division.
From team AMD:
ASUS
R9 390 and 390X and score yourself a copy of Far
Cry Primal and Hitman.
ASUS
R9 Fury X, Fury, Nano and score yourself a copy of Far
Cry Primal.
Any R9 390X or
390 and score yourself a copy of Hitman.
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For a limited time, gear up with selected Asus AMD graphics cards and you'll be able to get a sweet game download bonus!
Getting your game code is as easy as registering your shiney new graphics card via the Asus Redemption Website, following the prompts and completing small steps along the way :)
As usual the hardest part will be which game to choose so let's take a quick look at the games!
First up, Watch Dogs…
You play as Aiden Pearce, a brilliant hacker and former thug, whose criminal past led to a violent family tragedy. Now on the hunt for those who hurt your family, you'll be able to monitor and hack all who surround you by manipulating everything connected to the city’s network.
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Today we get our first shipment of the latest 300 series Graphics Cards from AMD!
We'll start testing and uploading gameplay videos to our Youtube Channel as soon as possible but for those of you that just can't wait we've got the latest AMD 300 Series in Asus flavour available now.
Currently topping the spec list is the Asus R9 390X Direct CUII 8GB Graphics Card which now sports a whopping 8GB memory. Featuring DirectCU II thermal design with DIGI+ VRM power design with Super alloy Power technology offering ample overclocking headroom these cards also include GPU TWEAK II software which makes overclocking easier than ever, and features Gaming Booster to maximize your system performance.
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We're never content to simply sit idle with our Gorilla Rigs… We always have to tinker with them. It doesn't seem that long ago that we were celebrating the new and improved Little Monkey, now here we are doing it again!
Now featuring stunning ASUS R7 260X Direct CU II Graphics, the Little Monkey now pumps out even more graphical goodness while being quieter than ever before! This is thanks to the DirectCU II cooler which achieves 20% lower temps with twice the dissipation area and 6X greater airflow then reference design.
This large graphics card also allowed us to use the awesome stability brackets built into the Zalman Z3 chassis, making it safer to take to upcoming gaming events like Ping Zero!
Of course, we couldn't change a Gorilla Rig without running a benchmark – check out how it did!
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The Second Monkey is part of a new custom rig line up called Gorilla EX.
Gorilla EX is made for IT savy gamers, looking for a base build they can customise over time.
The range is designed in the way that none of them come with dedicated graphics cards installed, but are still fully working PC suitable for home or student uses if needed – really though, it wouldn't be putting the 650 watt power supply to good use now would it?
The Second Monkey specifically comes fitted with our favourite AMD A8–6600K APU which gives exceptional performace. You will also find a 128GB SSD with the OS loaded on it to get super fast boot times and loading times in general. There is plenty more space for storage expansion when the time comes.
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This blog might get a bit geeky!
Today we start shipping our new range of enthusiast Gorilla EX Rigs, the first being aptly named The First Monkey
Gorilla EX are intended to be the base for a system that you can improve over time, they come assembled and pre-loaded with the windows 8.1 operating system so you can add wireless, more storage, graphics cards and cooling to the builds easily when you want to.
The First Monkey sits in a versitile Corsair Spec-01 mid tower, with plenty of space and power to do some pretty cool builds. We can add 120mm LED fans with fancy controllers, wireless and solid state storage later – right now we start off with a quick look at graphics card options!
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Barely a month ago AMD announced the release of their latest generation Dual GPU graphics solution, in the form of the R9 295X2.
Today, we bare witness to the cards trickling out into the market.
The Gigabyte R9 295X2 is currently the most powerful single graphics card solution in the market.
It is the first single card solution that is promising 4K resolution gaming, at ultra settings.
It is also the first reference designed graphics card that has an integrated self contained water cooling loop. Each of the fully fledged 290X cores has a dedicated pump and GPU block attached to each and from there, the heat it sent out to a 120mm radiator to be cast out of your case.
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In this month's Gorilla Rigs lineup we have power like never before, and Asus have come over and helped make them TOTALLY INSANE!
Two Rigs in particular have had the Asus super tinker :) and let's start with a long running favourite – The War Monkey.
Fresh from the workshop after a total overhaul to accommodate the latest in AMD 8 Core processors and a beautiful AMD FX water cooling kit our War Monkey packs a mighty 280 X capable of decimating any game you want to throw at it…
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We've been uploading videos of gameplay at the bottom of our Gorilla Rigs whenever possible, always trying to keep them action packed and spoiler free. Recently, we started including settings used at the end of videos, now we will also be posting FPS count videos and benchmarks.
We are trying to find the best free benchmark available to all, so you can run it on your rigs at home to see the comparisons – any suggestions would be great! Currently we are using the FF benchmark available for download here.
On that note we love great suggestions, so use the FB comments section either of the Gorilla Rigs pages or under the Youtube video to let us know the games you want to see them play or maybe a cool chassis you would like to see a Gaming Rig built in :)
Below is our first FPS test with Gorilla Warfare, the goal with these is see how close to max settings we can get without overclock to play at 60 frames per second.