Asus Astral 5090 AIO Are there any problems with this card?

[NeverBackDown]

Looks very clean! Is she loud under load with so many fans?

 

[Kaapstad]

I set a fan profile on the BIOS and at the moment it runs very quiet as the CPU (9950X3D) does not get that hot.

Having said that I have not had a chance to run something very graphics intensive so I will only find out then.

 

[Dicehunter]

I set a fan profile on the BIOS and at the moment it runs very quiet as the CPU (9950X3D) does not get that hot.

Having said that I have not had a chance to run something very graphics intensive so I will only find out then.

Can we expect to see you being more active again on the various forums and owners threads ?

 

[Kaapstad]

Can we expect to see you being more active again on the various forums and owners threads ?

ATM I am just taking it easy.

The reason I stopped posting on OcUK was when they upgraded it the software made it very difficult for me to edit threads.

 

[Dicehunter]

ATM I am just taking it easy.

The reason I stopped posting on OcUK was when they upgraded it the software made it very difficult for me to edit threads.

Ahh ok fair enough, I ran a thread on their a while back and couldn't edit the original post to refresh info after a certain amount of time had passed, Was quite annoying.

How you finding your 5090 ? Loving mine

 

[Kaapstad]

Ahh ok fair enough, I ran a thread on their a while back and couldn't edit the original post to refresh info after a certain amount of time had passed, Was quite annoying.

How you finding your 5090 ? Loving mine

My card itself is very good and runs quiet most of the time.

Having said that I don't like the 3xxx, 4xxx and 5xxx series as Nvidia have not shown much innovation in the hardware forcing us to pay a lot of money for a single huge card with no alternative.

In the past with mGPU you could buy two cheap mid range cards that would easily out perform the top tier card, this was good for keeping prices in check. DX12 does support mGPU if the Game devs and card manufacturers want to use it. Alternatively GPUs could be built with 2 or more chips which the outside world sees as a single unit a bit like AMD CPUs are made.

If Nvidia and AMD continue to show a lack of innovation eventually someone else will step in and do it like the Chinese.

 

[Dicehunter]

My card itself is very good and runs quiet most of the time.

Having said that I don't like the 3xxx, 4xxx and 5xxx series as Nvidia have not shown much innovation in the hardware forcing us to pay a lot of money for a single huge card with no alternative.

In the past with mGPU you could buy two cheap mid range cards that would easily out perform the top tier card, this was good for keeping prices in check. DX12 does support mGPU if the Game devs and card manufacturers want to use it. Alternatively GPUs could be built with 2 or more chips which the outside world sees as a single unit a bit like AMD CPUs are made.

If Nvidia and AMD continue to show a lack of innovation eventually someone else will step in and do it like the Chinese.

I could be wrong but I think GPU manufacturers will slowly leave gaming as there's so much silly profit to be made in AI/ML, Gaming to them seems more of a nuisance than anything else.

 

[Kaapstad]

I could be wrong but I think GPU manufacturers will slowly leave gaming as there's so much silly profit to be made in AI/ML, Gaming to them seems more of a nuisance than anything else.

I think you could be right.

I can see some Chinese manufacturer undercutting them making just gaming GPUs.

I also think the AI bubble is going to burst for Nvidia, AI is not going away but someone will find a way to get it to run on much cheaper hardware.

 

[NeverBackDown]

I think you could be right.

I can see some Chinese manufacturer undercutting them making just gaming GPUs.

I also think the AI bubble is going to burst for Nvidia, AI is not going away but someone will find a way to get it to run on much cheaper hardware.

While the fiscal bubble may burst i don't expect a big one. It'll still be a crucial branch of development for the foreseeable future.

As for cheaper hardware, they already have instruction sets dedicated to ML calculations. It's really just a time issue. Sure I'm sure somebody will invent a new way to calculate or find shortcuts but when parsing TBs upon TBs of data you still run into Big O Complexity issues(Time/Space complexity).


With all that being said I don't think we will use China GPUs for a long time. Once AMD and Intel can more competitively challenge Nvidia I think it'll reduce prices across all sectors.

 

[AlienALX]

ATM I am just taking it easy.

The reason I stopped posting on OcUK was when they upgraded it the software made it very difficult for me to edit threads.

I got perma booted from the graphics card area but in honesty I am actually dead pleased about it. I can now enjoy the forum a-hole free and enjoy my project posts.

 

[Dicehunter]

I got perma booted from the graphics card area but in honesty I am actually dead pleased about it. I can now enjoy the forum a-hole free and enjoy my project posts.

Yeah OCUK's GPU section has a lot of very strange individuals on it, I used to frequent it a lot as it used to be a good place to get useful info but now it's just grown men acting like old wash women arguing over the fence.

 

[AlienALX]

It's like a boil on the bum of an otherwise very well ran and mannered forum. The problem is that they don't get rid of fanboys or crap posters because if they did it would hurt sales. It is the only section like it on there tbh.