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Asus's new flagship router, the ROG Rapture GT-BN98 Pro, uses a Broadcom BCM6718 chip with a quad-core 2.6GHz processor, 2GB of RAM, and four wireless bands including two 6GHz channels. Testing showed speeds up to 3Gbps at close range and 350Mbps at long distance, outperforming Asus's existing Wi-Fi 7 flagship, with a fanless thermal design and extensive wired port options including dual 10Gbps connections.
A Reddit user posting as antisocialnae reported that a stray bullet passed through their home's exterior and interior walls before being stopped by their ASUS TUF VG258QM 280Hz gaming monitor while they were playing Call of Duty at night. The user shared photos of the bullet hole and the damaged monitor, calling it 'the best $280 I ever spent,' and ASUS has publicly responded saying it will look into the incident, though no replacement has been confirmed.
HP and Asus have reportedly moved portions of their PC manufacturing back to China after previously diversifying to countries like Thailand, Vietnam, and India, according to Nikkei Asia. Dell is said to be considering a similar move, as these companies look to curb rising component costs that have squeezed profit margins.
Nikkei Asia reports that HP, Asus, and Acer have returned portions of their manufacturing capacity to China after years of diversifying elsewhere, as AI-driven memory shortages pushed memory prices up roughly 500% in a year. Rather than using established partners like Foxconn, which have shifted focus to AI data centers, the PC makers are contracting with smaller Chinese manufacturers such as Luxshare, Huaqin Technology, and Longcheer Technology.
Samsung's P9 MicroSD Express cards are on sale at Amazon and B&H Photo, with the 256GB version priced at $47.99 and the 512GB version at $99. Both prices remain above the cards' original launch prices, which the piece attributes to an ongoing memory shortage.
Asus has released the ROG Xbox Ally X20, a 20th-anniversary revision of its ROG Xbox Ally X gaming handheld, priced at $1,299.99 (or $2,499.99 bundled with XR glasses and accessory cases). The device keeps the same internal performance as the $999.99 Ally X but adds an OLED display, TMR joysticks, rubberized grips, a transparent case design, a transforming D-pad, and a screenshot button in place of the library button.
ASUS and Microsoft have released the ROG Xbox Ally X20, a higher-end version of last year's ROG Xbox Ally X gaming handheld. It keeps the same AMD Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme chip and 24GB of LPDDR5X memory, but adds an OLED display, TMR joysticks, an adjustable D-pad, and a transparent plastic shell, priced at $1,300.
A review of the ASUS ProArt P16 laptop equipped with NVIDIA's RTX Spark chip and 128GB of RAM found strong GPU, NPU and AI benchmark performance, outperforming a MacBook Pro with M5 Max in Geekbench 6 GPU tests and UL Procyon AI benchmarks. However, the system scored lower than a Snapdragon X2 Elite-powered ASUS A16 in PCMark 10 and single-threaded CPU tests. The laptop reportedly ran large local AI models like Qwen3.8 27B alongside demanding games such as Cyberpunk 2077 without performance slowdowns.
A longtime Asus Zenbook Pro 17 owner describes years of the laptop fully rebooting instead of waking from sleep, wiping open work sessions. After repeated troubleshooting, the user identified the MediaTek Wi-Fi 6E MT7922 adapter's power-saving setting as the cause and fixed it by disabling that option in Windows Device Manager.
A tech guide explains how users can determine whether their router still receives firmware updates or has reached end-of-life (EOL) status, after which security vulnerabilities go unpatched. It recommends checking the router's model and hardware revision number against manufacturer websites, noting that companies like ASUS maintain searchable EOL product lists. The guide also suggests reviewing the date of the last firmware update and contacting the manufacturer directly if the support status is unclear.
A Hugging Face contributor and Arch Linux package maintainer built a bootable Arch Linux ARM setup for the ASUS ProArt P16 H7607BA-SE033W, a laptop with 128GB of RAM, 6,144 CUDA cores and a 2TB SSD that ships with official Windows-only support. The build incorporates NVIDIA's Ubuntu kernel work, custom ACPI overrides, a patched hid-asus driver for the keyboard, and official NVIDIA and ASUS firmware, with 7-Zip performance matching Windows and the OS correctly reporting the full 116GiB unified memory pool to CUDA.
Tom's Hardware reviewed Asus' new ROG Strix XG27AQNGV, a 27-inch QHD IPS gaming monitor with a 360Hz refresh rate, HDR support, and Nvidia's G-Sync Pulsar technology. Pulsar syncs the monitor's backlight with the frame rate in real time, aiming to eliminate motion blur on LCD panels without the brightness loss typical of older strobing methods. The reviewer called it highly tunable, suited to both casual and competitive gamers.