ASUS ROG Joins the Expensive Cables Club with ROG CAT7 Cable

[Athlonite]

Idiots and their money

Yeah it looks nice an all but in reality you're only paying for the brand name after that it's still a cable made in China in some out of the way slave labour factory where every other network cable is made

 

[mechtech]

Overpriced but not quite at the fully-committed, scam-level pricing yet. These are unnecessary and overpriced, much like an RTX 3090 but at least the price hike is justifiable by additional build quality and packaging 'experience'.

Asus make them because idiots with money have proven that they'll willingly buy stupid shit they don't need, so it's hard to frown on Asus for catering to this market opportunity.

Need one of these to plug into my ISP 150 Mbps modem

 

[micropage7]

nope nope nope, except you pay for the brand, it's much better buying stock cat 7 with high quality connector

 

[efikkan]

What next? ASUS to enter the keyboard and mouse market?

They have been for a while
While Asus have been making the best consumer motherboards for years, but like with many companies with some brand recognition, most of their peripherals are just cheap white label products from a third party.

nope nope nope, except you pay for the brand, it's much better buying stock cat 7 with high quality connector

Cheaper for sure, but why do you need Cat 7 S/FTP for a short patch cable?
The benefits of shielding and pair separation come into play for longer stretches of cable. For shorter patch cables, even a quality Cat 5E is going to be sufficient for 10 Gbps.

 

[CheapMeat]

Somehow adding RGB to the logo would have made it interesting.

 

[Athlonite]

even a quality Cat 5E is going to be sufficient for 10 Gbps.

CAT5e is not capable of 10Gbps it is sufficient for 1Gbps and 2.5Gbps anything faster than that requires CAT6a

 

[efikkan]

CAT5e is not capable of 10Gbps it is sufficient for 1Gbps and 2.5Gbps anything faster than that requires CAT6a

You're wrong on this one.
Just because Cat 5E isn't certified for 10Gbps, doesn't mean it can't run it.
You can find various tests showing that it work just fine for shorter cables, at least up to 10m if the cable is decent.
I also recommend watching this, to see how ridiculously thin cables are capable of 10Gbps.
The differences between Cat 5E and Cat 6/6A come into play when the cables are long enough.