The Cool New Asus ROG Products That Are About To Launch

Asus showed-off some seriously cool new computing kit at Computex. Here’s a video tour of the booth plus a rundown of the individual new products.

New Top-Tier Hero Motherboards and Graphics Cards with BTF Updates

Asus unveiled its new Intel (Z890) and AMD (X870E) motherboards with its hidden ‘BTF’ connectors (that we first glimpsed last year). BTF (now at generation 2.5) stands for Back To the Future although many assume it means ‘back to front’ owing to the connectors appearing on the rear of the board. Asus continues to work with third-party case designers to increase their popularity.

The new BTF GPUs come with a small, detachable 1,000-Watt power adapter (code: GC-HPWR) which changes the profile of the graphics card. It still has a standard 2×6 power connector for those who want the card but don’t have a BTF motherboard (yet). Asus engineers also explained that, in the near future, extreme tweakers will be able to utilise both the new and legacy connectors at the same time: to either split the voltage or increase the overall power. Asus is also bringing BTF functionality to its TUF-gaming motherboards and Radeon cards this year. 

Key models on display:

Z890 Hero Maximus

ROG Crosshair X870E Hero BTF

ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 32GB GDDR7 BTF Edition

TUF Gaming Radeon RX 9070 XT BTF OC Edition

New Thunderbolt 5 External Graphics Card Dock

The latest ROG XG Station 3 uses the latest Thunderbolt 5 connection (up to 80Gbps bandwidth) to connect top-tier desktop graphics cards to devices like ultraportable laptops. It’s an open-top external GPU dock which shows-off the card (along with its RGB decorations and fans) while leaving it open to the elements (and curious pets). We noticed that the cable is significantly longer than those used in older external GPU docks.

Asus GeForce RTX 5080 Noctua Edition

This is a special collaboration with air-cooling specialists, Noctua. It features a case in Noctua’s famous brown colour, details like Noctua’s ‘Eye’ logo on the backplate and the new Noctua boomerang-like fans. Check it out, here. 

Wrap-around coolers with LCD

The new AIO CPU coolers feature a curved, 6.7-inch AMOLED display (with 2K, 60Hz resolution) which can play 3D-effect videos. The CPU coolers feature three, 60mm radiators and pre-mounted ARGB fans for silent cooling. A white version is on its way, too. Find out more about the ROG RYUO IV SSLC 360 ARGB, here.

New ROG Gaming Routers

Asus ROG’s new Wi-Fi gaming routers looked impressive. The latest, giant robot-space-spider update is the ROG Rapture GT-BE19000AI which now features an Ai-friendly NPU inside. Few people are sure what the NPU actually will do yet, but it looks pretty dang awesome, even if the wife has banned them from appearing in our home for more than a day at a time. 

She’d warm to the more-sober (but still RGB-infused) ROG Strix GS BE-18000 whose predecessors have seriously impressed us in terms of performance and range. I’ll review both soon (my router reviews appear in APC magazine). 

New 2025 ROG NUC

Asus’ first ROG NUC raised eyebrows for its price last year, but there’s a great deal of technology inside. The 2025 update features an expandable motherboard with an M.2 slot and two SODIMM memory slots. There’s also a laptop-grade Nvidia RTX 5080 GPU and an Intel Core Ultra 9 CPU with dual-vapour-chamber cooling plus DDR5-6400 RAM. Other ‘quality of life’ improvements, over the 2024 edition, include an improved, non-slip, rubber base, simpler attachments, and improved ROG RGB logo. In demos we saw it run demanding games in 4K at over 200fps.

Asus ROG Gaming Monitors

We were keen to check out Asus’ latest gaming displays as the company has been knocking it out of the park with these in the past year. First up was the ROG Swift OLED PG32UCDMR which is a 32-inch, QD-OLED display that runs at 240Hz. It’s also got Asus’ impressive, reflection-resistant semi-gloss coating. While I still prefer the matte-finished OLED sibling (which has no reflections) that model requires TLC, as simply wiping it clean can damage the surface. 

Next up was the latest dual-mode ROG Strix OLED XG32UWG which can operate at 4K and 165Hz or switch to Full HD and 330Hz for fast-and-frantic gaming. Its predecessor was my daily driver as it was perfect for work (at 4K) and switching to gaming mode (1080p Call of Duty) was a silky-smooth dream.

Next was the ROG Strix ACE XG248QSG which is Asus’ eSports monitor for FPS players.

It uses a (horrible), old Tn panel, replete with its poor colour performance and viewing angles (actually, it’s really not that bad), in order to bump the refresh rate up to a fastest-ever 610Hz. It’s a space that BenQ has owned for some time with its BenQ Zowie range. The obscene refresh rate marries with the panel’s rapid pixel response time (and uses ‘Extreme Low Motion Blur 2’ backlight-strobing) to deliver completely blur-free FPS games where nothing is missed. With world-championships being decided by millimetres and milliseconds, this is more of a professional tool for eSports players than something you’d want to use as a daily driver.

The new model features ‘Super Tn’ technology for lower input lag and a small-footprint, rotatable base (with additional stand height-and-pivot manipulation) so that eSports players can adopt their unusual, oblique, up-close playing positions. MSI also revealed a version, but it only goes to 600Hz(!) 

Asus Commercial Router Series

While we couldn’t confirm if all of Asus’ travel routers would come to Australia, we’re hoping that they do. The RT-BE58 GO, in particular, lets you share a 5G connection over Wi-Fi 7 on a tiny device for high performance on the move.

Also on show was the SMB-oriented 5G-BE58U which works with partner hardware and software for secure, expandable, office-friendly networking. Early Telstra routers suffered with failing mobile-network fallback technology in the past, so we’re keen to see how things have improved with Wi-Fi 7. 

New 5K and 6K ProArt Monitors and Graphics Cards

The ProArt Display 6K PA32QCV is an all-bells-and-whistles, colour-accurate Windows-Mac-compatible monitor that’s designed for creative professionals – in particular video editors – who want to edit native 6K video (or 4K video in an editing window). Normally, working with UHD resolution video requires the video to be squished while editing, so demanding editors will warm to this feature alone. There’s also a 27-inch, 5K model called the ProArt Display 5K PA27JCV, too. Both can now be controlled with speech recognition, too. 

We also saw a special ProArt graphics card which eschews the RGB flourishes of its gaming brethren for a [checks notes] genuine-wood finish with golden flourishes. There’s even a variant – the ProArt GeForce RTX 5080 SSD edition – with an M.2 drive slot built-in to the GPU cooler – to simultaneously make use of the PCIe 5.0 lane and additional cooling prowess of the GPU shroud. What will they think of next? There was even a matching case, too. We didn’t know this market existed, but it does now.

New Pro-gaming Mouse

We were also shown the latest iteration of Asus’ pro-gamer gaming mouse, the Harpe II Ace which weighs under 48g! It’s even sturdier (and more textured) too, thanks to a move away from plastic to a new ‘bio-based nylon’ fabrication. It was developed in tandem with the NRG eSports team and its star Valorant player, Demon 1.

New Split Gaming Keyboard

Finally, we saw a new split gaming keyboard called the ROG Falcata – a 75 per cent keyboard (with no number pad). It allows FPS-players to get rid of the redundant, right-hand-side of the keyboard altogether, to free up desktop space. Alternatively, you can separate the right hand side – keeping it connected via a cable – for enhanced ergonomics. It means you can use the same device for competitive gaming and day-to-day typing without having to swap keyboards. It also has multiple feet which facilitate multiple height adjustments. It’s connected using rubber to avoid maganetic interference with the keyboard’s magnetic internals. It also features a multimedia scroll switch and offers the ability to adjust (and monitor) the keys’ actuation points, down to 0.1mm (phyically) or 0.01mm (using software). 

We’re hoping that all of the new kit will land on these shores sooner rather than later, so we can review everything. Thanks very much to Ross from Asus for his excellent explanations of each product.

Last Updated on June 23, 2025 by Nick Ross