With an aim to educate enthusiasts on the recent technological innovations offered by ASUS with focus on their Z87, ROG and TUF series motherboards, Transformer AIO, wireless networking products and desktop products, ASUS Component Business Division has successfully concluded their annual tech enthusiasts meet on 28th September, 2013 at their Mumbai head office. The event also served as an excellent opportunity to gather feedback about the brand from an end-user perspective on a direct face to face platform.
In this year's meet, there was a presentation on ASUS Z87 motherboards, wireless networking products and desktop products, followed by static demo of the latest ASUS products like the ASUS VivoPC, RT-AC68U wireless router, MX279H LCD monitor, Transformer AIO and the entire range of Z87 motherboards including the mini-ITX Republic of Gamers board - the Maximus VI Impact. There was also a live product demo of the recently launched ASUS Xonar U7 soundcard.
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Towards the end of the event, there was also an extreme overclocking session using LN2 (liquid Nitrogen) cooling was done by Shatul Durlabhji aka Toolius - proprietor of Comp Kraft Pvt. Ltd - a company specializing in building high-performance computers for specialized uses. Durlabhji is a renowned overclocker from India and has in the past ranked in many CPU frequency worldwide records. Usually practiced by enthusiasts, overclocking is done to attain levels of performance beyond the values specified by the hardware manufacturer. At the enthusiasts meet, he was able to hit 6.1 Ghz on the Intel Corei7-4770k processor. This also gave the attendees a great opportunity to witness overclocking using extreme cooling first hand.
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Vinay Shetty, Country Head, Component Business, ASUS (India), said, "Just like the last meet, it was an excellent opportunity for us to learn and share about our products and technology in an informal setting and it was great to see many of the users again. We would like to hold such meets from time to time to facilitate this type of focussed interaction regarding our products and services to continually improve our offerings to the market."
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Around 30 tech enthusiasts attended the event which was strictly by invite only. These enthusiasts comprised primarily of engineering students, IT professionals, consultants, business owners and technology forum members who vigorously pursue overclocking/gaming/modding as a hobby.
