{"id":62698,"date":"2014-03-20T15:32:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T13:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=62698"},"modified":"2014-03-20T15:33:49","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T13:33:49","slug":"asus-launching-monster-gpus-in-sa-will-you-cough-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/62698-asus-launching-monster-gpus-in-sa-will-you-cough-up","title":{"rendered":"ASUS launching monster GPUs in SA: will you cough up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) announced the arrival of the Matrix Platinum AMD R9 290X and Matrix Platinum Nvidia GTX 780 Ti &#8211; two powerful new graphics cards loaded with over-clocking ability, DirectCU II cooling technology, and shiny LEDs.<\/p>\n<p>The two graphics cards are scheduled to arrive in South Africa in mid-April 2014. Below is the RRP:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Matrix Platinum AMD R9 290X = R11 999.00<\/li>\n<li>Matrix Platinum Nvidia GTX 780 Ti = R13 999.00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>ASUSTek South Africa said only five units of each card will be brought into SA initially, with more shipped in if there is demand.<\/p>\n<p>The cards are said to be 13% faster than reference designs, and include\u00a0Memory Defroster &#8211; which allows below-zero over-clocking.<\/p>\n<p>The Matrix cards also allow for control over GPU and video-memory clock speeds, voltages, cooling-fan speeds, and power-consumption threshold.<\/p>\n<p>Both cards come with\u00a04GB of DDR5 video memory, colour-coded LEDs that change shade to reflect the GPU\u2019s load level, and clock speeds of\u00a01050MHz for the\u00a0R9 290X and\u00a01072MHz for the\u00a0GTX 780 Ti.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">ROG Matrix Platinum AMD R9 290X<\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_62699\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MATRIX-R9290X-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62699\" class=\"size-large wp-image-62699\" alt=\"MATRIX R9290X\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MATRIX-R9290X--600x570.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MATRIX-R9290X--600x570.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MATRIX-R9290X-.jpg 631w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-62699\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MATRIX R9290X<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>AMD Radeon R9 290X<\/li>\n<li>PCI Express 3.0<\/li>\n<li>OpenGL 4.4<\/li>\n<li>4096MB (4GB) GDDR5 memory<\/li>\n<li>1050MHz engine clock speed<\/li>\n<li>5400MHz (1350MHz GDDR5) memory clock<\/li>\n<li>512-bit memory interface<\/li>\n<li>4096 x 2160 maximum resolution<\/li>\n<li>2 x DVI-D output<\/li>\n<li>1 x HDMI output<\/li>\n<li>1 x DisplayPort output<\/li>\n<li>HDCP-compliant<\/li>\n<li>ASUS GPU Tweak and drivers included<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>ROG Matrix Platinum Nvidia GTX 780 Ti<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_62700\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MATRIX-GTX780TI-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62700\" class=\"size-large wp-image-62700\" alt=\"MATRIX GTX780TI\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MATRIX-GTX780TI--600x570.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MATRIX-GTX780TI--600x570.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MATRIX-GTX780TI-.jpg 631w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-62700\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MATRIX GTX780TI<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>NIVIDA GeForce GTX 780 Ti<\/li>\n<li>PCI Express 3.0<\/li>\n<li>OpenGL 4.4<\/li>\n<li>3072MB (3GB) GDDR5 memory<\/li>\n<li>1072MHz boost clock<\/li>\n<li>7000MHz memory clock<\/li>\n<li>384-bit memory interface<\/li>\n<li>4096 x 2160 maximum resolution<\/li>\n<li>1 x DVI-D output<\/li>\n<li>1 x DVI-I output<\/li>\n<li>1 x HDMI output<\/li>\n<li>1 x DisplayPort output<\/li>\n<li>HDCP-compliant<\/li>\n<li>ASUS GPU Tweak and drivers included<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/62695-gog-com-to-launch-and-support-linux-games.html\">GOG.com to launch and support Linux games<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/62686-do-you-finish-your-games-only-1-in-3-players-do.html\">Do you finish your games? Only 1 in 3 players do<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/62665-epic-and-expensive-gaming-pcs-built-in-sa.html\">Epic (and expensive) gaming PCs built in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Limited stock of the powerful ASUS Republic of Gamers Matrix Platinum edition AMD R9 290X and Nvidia GTX 780 Ti hitting SA with a jaw-dropping price point<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":54061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1517,8361,1771,12156,21,12157,11402],"class_list":["post-62698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-asus","tag-asus-rog","tag-graphics-cards","tag-gtx-780-ti","tag-headline","tag-matrix","tag-r9-290x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62737,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62698\/revisions\/62737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}