Asus Astral 5090 AIO Are there any problems with this card?
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Kaapstad
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They were talking about the air cooled version and problems with the forth fan and then someone said there were problems with the AIO version too but did not go into detail.
I am looking to build a gaming PC and want to include an AIO Astral rather than doing a proper water cooling setup.
I am looking to build a gaming PC and want to include an AIO Astral rather than doing a proper water cooling setup.
Dicehunter
Resident Newb
Melting issues with the 5000 series is a lot more prevalent than the 4000 series regardless of vendor, 5090 is quite the gamble.
WYP
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The 4th fan was a little loud with the original Astral models. IIRC, there was a VBIOS update that did do something about that. Not aware of any issues with the liquid cooled version.
Tom did review this model. He seems to have found no issues with his sample.
Whole lotta card - but its about way more than that
The thing we admired the most had nothing to do with the 5090 at all....!
Kaapstad
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ThanksThe 4th fan was a little loud with the original Astral models. IIRC, there was a VBIOS update that did do something about that. Not aware of any issues with the liquid cooled version.
Tom did review this model. He seems to have found no issues with his sample.
Whole lotta card - but its about way more than that
The thing we admired the most had nothing to do with the 5090 at all....!overclock3d.net
I just watched Tom's review and found it very useful as it answered a few things I needed to know.
WYP
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I'm glad it was helpful.
Kaapstad
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Update
I have gone with the Air cooled Astral 5090 as it will look better in the build.
The main reason I have bought an Asus card is because of the monitoring software they have for the power connector.
I really do think the 5xxx series is the worst Nvidia has produced ever, unfortunately they don't have much competition so innovation and quality have gone out the window.
I have gone with the Air cooled Astral 5090 as it will look better in the build.
The main reason I have bought an Asus card is because of the monitoring software they have for the power connector.
I really do think the 5xxx series is the worst Nvidia has produced ever, unfortunately they don't have much competition so innovation and quality have gone out the window.
Dicehunter
Resident Newb
Hardware wise the 5000 series is quite nice and their new Transformer model for DLSS is blackmagic, But the lack of competition from both AMD and Intel in the upper middle to high end is pretty bad.
NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
In Intel and AMDs defense even if they had a card that could compete, the market hivemind will still prefer team green.
Dicehunter
Resident Newb
Seeing how massively popular AMD's 9000 series and Intels 500 series have both been I'm hesitant to think so IF AMD and Intel got the pricing right and didn't just price slightly under Nvidia.
Excalabur50
Well-known member
Sorry but I just don't get it, you openly admit that the 5000 series is basically crap, yet you buy it anyway and at massively inflated prices, this is why Nvidia don't give a shit and keep screwing everyone over cause they know people will still by their garbage anyway! Honestly you should have just bought a 9070XT as it's the only way Nvidia are going to learn, is if people won't support their actions.
Kaapstad
Active member
If no one bought Nvidia's high end cards I don't think it would bother them.
They would just allocate the chips that went into the 5090s to their professional cards where the profit margins are even higher.
The reason I think the Nvidia 5xxx series are crap is because they are an engineering disaster -
Massive power draw
Very dodgy power connector
Massive cooler
Massive size
Ugly appearance due to the above reasons
The reason I did not buy a 9070 XT (even though they are nice cards) is because they barely preform better than my old 3xxx series cards.
Dicehunter
Resident Newb
Gaming now makes up something in the neighborhood of 2-3% of Nvidia's total yearly profit, If everyone stopped buying 5080's and 5090's they could put it down to a rounding error on their books and make up for it by charging their data center and AI customers ever so slightly more.
It wouldn't surprise me if Nvidia eventually exited the gaming segment completely.
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Excalabur50
Well-known member
I just personally won't support them out of the principle of the matter, although truth be told AMD aren't that much better they'll shaft us at the drop of a hat too, if they can get away with it, which they sort of are by not supplying 9070XT's at MSRP.
Dicehunter
Resident Newb
Yeah it seems business brings out the worst in people and it's usually the worst people who end up in business.
WYP
News Guru
It's very clear these days that Nvidia's focus is on datacenter and AI. With RDNA 4 we see clear boosts in per-CU gaming performance over RDNA 3, but with Blackwell the gains are mostly in AI and gaming performance is boosted by making the GPU bigger and with more CUs. The innovation from Nvidia is entirely on the AI side.
The odd thing about Blackwell is that it almost feels like an RTX 40 SUPER SUPER series with added Multi-Frame Generation. Then there is the RTX 5060. 3GB GDDR7 chips exist, and that would have made the RTX 5060 an amazing (12GB) product. Massive own goal. Then again, maybe the play is that 8GB GPU users will need to upgrade faster...
I hope that AMD and Intel can keep up their momentum. We need stronger competition in this space. It feels like all the enthusiasm the PC gaming space had is slowly dying off.
The odd thing about Blackwell is that it almost feels like an RTX 40 SUPER SUPER series with added Multi-Frame Generation. Then there is the RTX 5060. 3GB GDDR7 chips exist, and that would have made the RTX 5060 an amazing (12GB) product. Massive own goal. Then again, maybe the play is that 8GB GPU users will need to upgrade faster...
I hope that AMD and Intel can keep up their momentum. We need stronger competition in this space. It feels like all the enthusiasm the PC gaming space had is slowly dying off.
WYP
News Guru
Here is a pic of the build almost finished.
When I installed the drivers for the card, they offered to install PhysX even though a 5090 can not run it lol.
Very nice. What case is that?
The RTX 5090 does support PhysX. It's only 32-bit PhysX that it doesn't support.
