ASUS Wants To ROG Your Life: AIO Coolers, PSU, And Chassis Announced

ASUS is pushing its Republic of Gamers branding hard at this year’s Computex. While the usual assortment of devices and tech is in the mix, there are a number of ‘firsts’ for the ROG brand, including a smartphone.

While for the most part, ROG is known for its motherboards, graphics cards, peripherals, and laptops, it’s also gaining a name for its networking gear. Today though, we saw ASUS attempt at making all system components ROG branded, too.

In a surprise launch, we saw the first ROG All-in-one coolers being announced, the Ryujin and the Ryuo. Their main focus is on RGB lighting that ties in with all the other ROG product lighting for a fully illuminated system using Aura Sync, but there are some interesting things going on as well.

The Ryujin is the flagship cooler, coming in 240mm and 360mm variants, using a standard Asetek pump. The fans are 120mm Noctua iPPC-2000, which are Noctua’s industrial branded fans, so they should be pretty decent at keeping the radiator cool, and quiet. The party trick with this particular AIO is not just the RGB lighting, but the inclusion of a 60mm fan in the pump housing. This is to circulate air around the VRM and CPU socket, which is typically a dead-spot when AIOs are used.

The Ryuo AIO is the smaller sibling, which is marketed at the more price conscious consumer, as it covers the 120mm and 240mm range, but with ASUS’ own fans and basic LED lighting around the pump, pretty much like most other Asetek AIO coolers on the market. The fans are also put to use in ASUS’ new power supply, the ROG Thor.

ASUS’ first PSU on the market with the ROG branding, is the ROG Thor 1200W Platinum PSU, which should be pretty self-explanatory as to its specs. It’s an 80 Plus Platinum certified PSU with an efficiency of 90%. It can provide all 1200W through the 12v rail, so it looks to be a single rail design. It’s modular too. The inside is stuffed with heatsinks, and has a large 135mm fan, but can operate without it under low loads. The biggest surprise is the 10 year warranty ASUS provides.

Also on show at Computex 2018, was some ROG Strix mid-tower chassis concepts, filling out one of the last pieces of an all-ROG system. There are two on show, and ASUS is leaving it up to the public to decide which one they want. There isn’t anything majorly special going on, as they’re tempered glass side panels, vertical GPU mount, lots of radiator spacing, and of course, RGB lighting. The top of the chassis has woven cotton handles to lug the beast of a machine around, should you be into LAN parties. It will supposedly ship with 140mm Magnetic bearing fans, which should limit the impact of dust and noise on the system.

Of course, you can’t announce all these system components without also announcing some peripherals too, like the Balteus mouse pad with… RGB lighting and Qi wireless charging. RGB enabled ROG Delta headset, and of course, an RGB enabled ROG Gladius II wireless mouse. All these RGB devices can of course be synced together with the Aura Sync software.

Now ASUS, where’s the RGB RAM, SSD, and M.2 drives… and RGB cables? Well, at least there’s fake memory for matched RGB lighting effects inside your system