The special editions of the various components and devices are not more powerful than the normal ones. However, this type of product, being limited, is sought after by collectors. Since its rarity will trigger its market price in a few years. Well, in Asus paid tribute to the popular anime Neon Genesis Evangelion with a motherboard and a graphics card. Let’s see how they are.
It’s not common to find component manufacturers making themed versions of a popular pop culture franchise in its various guises. It usually comes more from the hands of those who make extreme modifications to their PC. That is, people who usually create their own boxes in order to give them a unique aesthetic. Either to express your hobby and love for something, or just to demonstrate your creative abilities.
However, Japan is a world apart and it is normal for special edition cases, motherboards, graphics cards, mice, keyboards, etc. appear on PC. Which are based on popular manga and anime franchises. Either to take advantage of the lure of its popularity, or simply for the biggest fans. Well, ASUS recently introduced graphics card and motherboard based on Neon Genesis Evangelion is one such example. What’s special about them and how do they compare to regular editions?
This is ASUS Evangelion based motherboard and graphics card
Neon Genesis Evangelion is one of the most popular anime in history, with a huge fanbase around the world following a plot that recently ended after several decades. That’s why we shouldn’t be surprised to see merchandising of all kinds related to this franchise, but what surprised us was to see ASUS present special editions of two PC components with Neon aesthetics Genesis Evangelion.
The first of them is a version of the ROG MAXIMUS Z690 HERO featuring a green and purple color scheme inspired by the EVA-01. As for its RGB lighting, it stands out for its theme around the famous anime. It is a motherboard with a Z690 chipset and therefore designed for Intel Core 12 processors. Its features include support for DDR5 RAM up to 6400MHza slit PCI Express 5.0 for the graphics card, supports 2.5 Gigabit LAN and built-in WiFi 6E. All this in an ATX form factor motherboard. His price? At the moment, we don’t know.
As for the second component with the aesthetics of the popular anime, it is a graphics card with NVIDIA RTX 3090 GPU. Obviously also under the same aesthetics. This receives the name of ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 3090 O24G Evangelion Edition and its price will be, $2,185yes Want one? Well, you might have been late, because ASUS only produced 15 of these graphics cards based on the famous mecha anime. At the moment we do not know if this is just a simple aesthetic change.
