The name ASUS is well known as the maker of world’s best selling motherboards with the biggest market share globally.  Asus is also know as one of the top makers of video cards utilizing very high quality components and decent levels of overclocking right from the factory to eek out a bit more performance than the reference designs.  In the current GTX 500 series line up from nVidia they range from the 560, 560 Ti, 570, 580, and up to the dual GPU 590 at the extreme top end.  While most would love the performance of a GTX 590 not everyone can afford the cost, heat, and system requirements to leverage one of the fastest graphics cards on the market today.  For the rest of us we are looking for a great balance between being able to play any current game on the market with a fair amount of eye candy turned on against the amount of investment we want to make in our GPU.