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NVIDIA Raffling Off GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition - Customized with DOOM: The Dark Ages Wrap

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In advance of and coinciding with today's launch of ID Software's DOOM: The Dark Ages, an impressive number of partner companies have revealed licensed hardware and accessories. Surprisingly, NVIDIA has joined in on the fun—with a fan favorite franchise-themed flagship Founders Edition (FE) card. This lone contribution is only available through an online competition; as outlined by the firm's GeForce social media account. This afternoon's announcement stated: "Stand and Fight for a chance to win. We're giving away a DOOM: The Dark Ages custom wrapped NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 (FE) to celebrate its official release with native ray tracing, NVIDIA DLSS 4 + Reflex." Hopeful entrants are tasked with contributing "thumbs ups," and writing in with comments.

Team Green's ($1999 MSRP) extremely special DOOM-themed card is decorated with highly expensive custom livery. According to official estimates, this level of custom wrapping adds about $600 to the flagship "Blackwell" card's base price. Despite this giveaway being open to worldwide participants, (small print) terms and conditions seem to excluded. As reported by Wccftech, these territories include: "Australia, the Province of Quebec, and a few more. The Middle East region and some Asian countries are also" shut out. Paying customers can consider alternative "step down" options from ASUS and (maybe Asia-only) COLORFUL. The Republic of Gamers (ROG) Astral RTX 5080 DOOM OC Edition is limited to a devilishly low number of units: 666. The Bethesda webshop is running short with available stock, but they offer all manner of extra bundled-in digital and physical tchotchkes (on top of a $1999.99 baseline).



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Only a single card and it's extremely low effort. Basically a sticker and not even a good quality one at that with how washed out it looks.
 
They have taken the clean elegant design and ruined it.

But I got into trouble saying only rich idiots drive around in golden cars... what a time to be alive.
 
I hope they check it for coil whine and give it some better thermal pads for the VRAM.
I don't have a vertical mount in my case.
Maybe they'll replace the white LED with a red one?
 
Hey a free card is a free card. Whoever wins it shouldn't look that gift horse in the mouth...

They should sell it, buy a used 4090, and pocket the change.
 
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