ASUS and ASUS ROG top the charts in motherboard, graphic cards, and monitors, says IGN India poll

ASUS and ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) has **emerged** as the “best gaming hardware manufacturer” during August in three listed categories, motherboards, graphics cards and monitors, a poll said on Sunday. [caption id=“attachment_4019605” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  The ASUS ROG G701[/caption] In an independent online polling campaign run by IGN India, a fan-focused entertainment website that offers gaming and lifestyle-related stories, nearly 77 percent of respondents chose ASUS motherboards over ASROCK (11 percent), GIGABYTE AORUS (9.10 percent) and MSI (2.20 percent). In the graphic card category, ASUS ROG garnered 57 percent votes for the best hardware, followed by Zotac (28.50 percent), GIGABYTE AORUS (12 percent) and Galax (two percent). ASUS also topped the list in monitors category. ASUS monitors got 45 per cent votes followed by BenQ (33 percent), Dell (15 percent) and Samsung (7 percent). The campaign started on August 24 and the voting closed on 5 September. **Recently** , Asus announced the launch of its Zephyrus gaming laptop in India at a price of Rs 2,99,999. The laptop which falls under the notebook category is the first to come with Nvidia’s Max-Q design architecture. Asus Republic of Gamers (ROG) claims that the Zephyrus is the world’s slimmest gaming laptop to feature an Intel Core i7 7th Generation  Kaby Lake processor along with Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card.While the price tag may not be a consumer friendly, the Zephyrus packs the latest and greatest when it comes to internal specifications despite its slim profile.