Product Review

Product Review

2026

September

ASUS AI Tech 2026 Seoul South Korea

ASUS AI Tech 2026 in Seoul showcased the company's ambitious plans for AI infrastructure, emphasizing its commitment to developing comprehensive solutions from chips to full rack-scale systems.

2026

July

ASUS Thermal Lab Tour 2026 Testing AI Servers

ASUS's thermal lab validates AI servers as integrated rack-scale systems, not standalone units, using full-rack environmental chambers, multi-megawatt liquid cooling, and comprehensive node/rack-level monitoring—a departure from traditional server qualifi

2026

May

ASUS XA NB3I-E12 Review A Massive 8x NVIDIA B300 GPU Server

The ASUS XA NB3I-E12 is a huge server. Occupying 9U of rack space, it brings a cutting-edge NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra subsystem along with Intel Xeon processors and over 6.4Tbps of networking in a form factor.

2025

August

ASUS ESC A8A-E12U 8x AMD Instinct MI325X GPU Server Review

The ASUS ESC A8A-E12U is a big server. With two AMD EPYC processors and eight AMD Instinct MI325X GPUs the system has plenty to offer. Beyond just those big CPUs, there are eleven PCIe slots and even the ability to add up to ten NVMe SSDs.

2025

June

CXL Paradigm Shift ASUS RS520QA-E13-RS8U 2U 4-Node Server Review

We have looked at many 2U 4-node servers in the past, but the ASUS RS520QA-E13-RS8U is a paradigm shift. So much that every time I have seen the server, it has been a prime target to review. We finally had the chance to get hands-on with the system earlie

2025

May

ASUS RS720-E12-RS8G 2U Intel Xeon 6 Server Review

The ASUS RS720-E12-RS8G is a 2U server heavily influenced by open standards to create a flexible compute platform. The server supports up to 10 expansion card slots, eight PCIe and two OCP NIC 3.0 slots, eight front NVMe drive bays, and dual Intel Xeon 6

2025

April

ASUS AI Pod NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 at NVIDIA GTC 2025

At NVIDIA GTC 2025, we saw the ASUS AI Pod for the NVIDIA GB300 generation. We also saw many PCIe GPU systems as well as the new NVIDIA HGX B300 8 GPU system. For this one, we captured a bit of extra video and have a short.

2025

March

ASUS ESC8000A-E13P Review an 8x PCIe GPU Server

The ASUS ESC8000A-E13P brings a thoughtful 8-GPU AI server design into the modern generation. With two AMD EPYC 9004/ 9005 processors and plenty of room for high-speed networking, this is a neat server. Of course, we need to get into it as the theme this

2024

December

AI Servers Robot Dogs and Liquid Cooling at the ASUS SC24 Booth

At SC24, we stopped by the ASUS booth and saw a number of fun server platforms. Perhaps better said, a farily huge breadth of more unique servers. We figured we would highlight a few of them in a piece.

2024

November

ASUS AMD EPYC CXL Memory Enabled Server AI and More OCP Summit 2024

ASUS EPYC CXL Memory Enabled Server and More OCP Summit 2024 We found one system that we were awestruck with, and ASUS asked us to cover a few more AMD systems as well for the EPYC 9005 “Turin” launch.