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Republic of Gamers here at Mighty Ape!

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There's really nothing that can match the feeling of rocking up to your friends place for a gaming session and busting out the equivalent of a stealth fighter jet. Of course the best way to top that is to dominate your opponents in every battlefield and arena that can be thrown at you – and there's no better way to do just that than with the ASUS Republic of Gamers G750JS.

Not only does this gaming laptop feature a gorgeous design, but what's under the hood will leave you with a stupid grin on your face as well.

Featuring:

  • Processor: Intel Core i7 Turbo Max 3.40 GHz
  • Memory: 16GB RAM
  • Storage: 256GB SSD + 1TB HDD
  • Graphics: 3GB DDR5 NVIDIA Geforce GTX870M
  • Optical Drive: Blu-Ray (Read+Write)

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Check out this Laptop from Asus!

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Do you need a computer that will crunch spreadsheets by day and conquer dragons at night?

Something that will take notes in class and slay enemies in combat?

Then look no further.

The Asus i5 Laptop features a 2.6GHz turbo processor to handle your workload, no matter what it is. Coupled with that is the 2GB nVidia GeForce graphics card making this laptop a truly capable entry level gaming machine!

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System Builds - The First Monkey!

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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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Competition: And the Watch Dogs WINNER is!

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You spotted the train in Metro, noticed the street sign in Fallout… You identified it was not Carl stealing that car in GTA and that James Heller from Prototype 2 was flying, not Delsin Rowe…

Our winner was not fooled by Paul Phoenix looking a bit like Ken in Street Fighter X Tekken and noticed that two policeman from L.A Noire::http://www.mightyape.co.nz/…ion/19261680 were headed into Eagleson's Gun St­ore…

She has identifed carefully, linked correctly and now… WON AWESOMELY!

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Competition: Benchmarks & Elgato Game Cap Giveaways!

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All Gorilla Rigs have Final Fantasy Benchmark results you can check out – this is a free benchmark you can download and try on your rig at home and it's a great way to compare performance :)

For these recordings we use the awesome Elgato Game Capture HD and in this FF benchmark Aiden's Ape pushed out an easy 11000 with the settings on maximum, 1080p and fullscreen – with this powerful build we even had it looped back into the rig recording as it ran the benchmark :)

Elgato is more than just a great capture device though, it includes some easy to use editing software that works with both PC and Mac and with it you can rewind back to the awesome moment you had 30 minutes ago and just record that bit… leaving out the 15 times I got killed by sneaky creepers.

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Competition: 15 Games in 60 Seconds - THIS IS IT!

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The final 15 are waiting for YOU!

To celebrate the release of Watch Dogs we teamed up with our friends at Corsair and created an epic Gorilla Gaming Rig worth $2499 which we're giving away to one lucky monkey!

We've been very very busy with this build, positioning components and optimizing everything as we put the Crucial Tracer LED Ram and Asus R9 280X Direct CU through 1080p, 1440p and 4K tests…

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15 Games in 60 Seconds - ROUND TWO!

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It's time for the next 15!

To celebrate the release of Watch Dogs we teamed up with our friends at Corsair and created an epic Gorilla Gaming Rig worth $2499 which we're giving away to one lucky monkey!

At the core of this Gorilla Gaming Rig is a Sabertooth Motherboard fitted with FX Water Cooled 8-Core AMD Vishera 4.4GHz goodness backed by 1000 watts of modular FSP Aurum power!

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Hot Asus Graphics Cards have landed!

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Asus have been hard at work edging in more and more performance into their cards.

Their latest iteration in the Direct CU II Cooler not only look striking at a glance, it also keeps the cards crucial components icy cool under the most demanding gaming situations.

Asus are stating up to 30% cooler and 3 times quieter when compared to reference cooling.

In the later cards, such as the ASUS GTX 760 2GB, this is achieved by having heat pipes in direct contact with the processing unit, leading to a large dense fin array over the card. Above this are the two large fans that focus air down through the fins and onto the cards PCB itself.

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New Republic of Gamers laptop sighted!

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Asus have just let us in on a little gem them have been working on.

The Asus Republic of Gamers G550JK is a 15.6" laptop with a fully fledged gaming features

Packing in intel Core i7 fourth generation Haswell processor and Nvidia GeForce GTX 800 series GPU along with the essential high-resolution screen with anti-reflective effect and a responsive backlit keyboard this new generation ROG is a slim powerhouse.

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