5090 ROG Astral LC Unboxing.

[D007]

Man, I was so pissed. I waited in line yesterday for hours and still got nothing but I went back again today and struck gold. $3099 sticker price before taxes at Micro Center. Lol
But damn it’s pretty.
Best of luck to everybody who’s still playing the lottery and trying to get one. It’s not easy.
5090 ROG Astral OC Unboxing Video

 

[Chrispy_]

Man, I was so pissed. I waited in line yesterday for hours and still got nothing but I went back again today and struck gold. $3099 sticker price before taxes at Micro Center. Lol
But damn it’s pretty.
Best of luck to everybody who’s still playing the lottery and trying to get one. It’s not easy.
5090 ROG Astral OC Unboxing Video

Nice. It's a rip-off, but if you're after a 5090 I guess you've made peace with that.

I've just had an MSI Inspire 3X 5080 delivered. Wasn't my first choice in Champagne but it's what the distributor could reserve for me and at least it's a sensible size.

I'll be testing that on software internally for the next few weeks and then reluctantly pass it over to one of the video editors when the 9070XT arrives, most likely. If that doesn't suck I can see myself taking it home to replace the 7800XT.

 

[D007]

Sure it’s overpriced but I worked very hard to get where I am in life lol.
Grats on the 5080 champagne.

 

[Chrispy_]

Sure it’s overpriced but I worked very hard to get where I am in life lol.
Grats on the 5080 champagne.

Thanks, not really mine - just secured it via B2B account manager for software performance/compatibility testing.
I'm personally waiting on a 5070Ti FE as I think that's the fastest thing I'm going to get under 200W* which a hard limit for my HTPC console replacement.

* - once tuned and undervolted

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Awesome man, Nice touch having the wife helping with the unboxing... Mine would have been on her way back to microcenter the minute I said 3k before taxes lol..

 

[D007]

Awesome man, Nice touch having the wife helping with the unboxing... Mine would have been on her way back to microcenter the minute I said 3k before taxes lol..

lol she knew how much I wanted one. She was surprisingly very supportive about it. She was a little shocked about the price at first no doubt, but I love how she had my back on this one. Yeah, she even helped with the unboxing. Honestly, she made it look way better than I would’ve. Lol
Thanks man.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

lol she knew how much I wanted one. She was surprisingly very supportive about it. She was a little shocked about the price at first no doubt, but I love how she had my back on this one. Yeah, she even helped with the unboxing. Honestly, she made it look way better than I would’ve. Lol
Thanks man.

I remember when my wife asked me why I wasn't going to get a 2080ti and I told her it was too expensive and she told me not to be a little B!+C#.


Nothing better than a supportive wife.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Nothing better than a supportive wife

Supportive wife = happy life

 

[ir_cow]

$1k over MSRP is insane.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

$1k over MSRP is insane.

It's wife approved man so it's all good.

 

[nguyen]

3100usd GPU: checked
Having a wife: checked
Getting your wife to approve it: checked
Getting your wife to unbox it: checked

Dang that's some next level flexing

 

[Dr. Dro]

Nice. Enjoy your card... Lord knows when mine's coming in.

 

[D007]

lol thank you guys.
Yea she was super cool about it. It was a pretty steep price but I had a 4090 and I sold it for more than I bought it for lol. So it didn’t hurt too bad. I can’t wait to see what it can do. I hope it has a higher boost clock than the astral air.

 

[Outback Bronze]

lol thank you guys.

Fukn sweet packaging. Very nice!

I was looking at getting the Gigabyte 5090 Aorus Xtreme Waterforce WB but will probably just buy an aircooled one then purchase a block for it. Reason is I can always just put the HSF back on and chuck it in my HTPC.

Great to see your wife being fully supportive! I know who's cooking dinner tonight : )

Congrats mate! Happy Days!

 

[vigor]

$3100 for a GPU!

I applaud to Nvidia

 

[Chrispy_]

I had a 4090 and I sold it for more than I bought it for lol.

Yeah, that's the really weird part about some flagships. If you get lucky with external economic factors the initial price doesn't matter.

I assume that VRAM-deprived lower-end models are going to age like milk (see: 3070Ti, 3080 - useless for AI, questionable for gaming at their intended resolution in 3 short years.) The 3090, 4090, 5090 are unlikely to lose value the same way.

I got lucky and sold my personal Vega64 for nearly 4x what I paid for it at the height of the ETH mining boom. I'd also ordered a pallet of RX 5700 from a Sapphire distributor at ~$290/card in early 2020 (intended to build workstations, but I changed my mind and bought them myself) Those mined a whole bunch of ETH for a little over a year, then I sold 24 of them as four six-GPU rigs for £25K after already mining 20 ETH and knowing when to quit.

Is the 5090 expensive? Yeah. But how many other cards are you going to be able to sell for a profit? AI-capable GPUs are today's ETH mining GPUs.

 

[D007]

Yeah, that's the really weird part about some flagships. If you get lucky with external economic factors the initial price doesn't matter.

I assume that VRAM-deprived lower-end models are going to age like milk (see: 3070Ti, 3080 - useless for AI, questionable for gaming at their intended resolution in 3 short years.) The 3090, 4090, 5090 are unlikely to lose value the same way.

I got lucky and sold my personal Vega64 for nearly 4x what I paid for it at the height of the ETH mining boom. I'd also ordered a pallet of RX 5700 from a Sapphire distributor at ~$290/card in early 2020 (intended to build workstations, but I changed my mind and bought them myself) Those mined a whole bunch of ETH for a little over a year, then I sold 24 of them as four six-GPU rigs for £25K after already mining 20 ETH and knowing when to quit.

Is the 5090 expensive? Yeah. But how many other cards are you going to be able to sell for a profit? AI-capable GPUs are today's ETH mining GPUs.

I really wish people would understand that. They all get shocked about how much I spent but none of them wanna know if I sold my 4090 for $2500, got 5% off with my Micro Center card and I had $100 gift card so I spent virtually nothing. Lol

 

[freeagent]

I know who's cooking dinner tonight : )

He cant take her for a couple of weeks now, but I am sure he will make up for it lol

 

[oxrufiioxo]

I really wish people would understand that. They all get shocked about how much I spent but none of them wanna know if I sold my 4090 for $2500, got 5% off with my Micro Center card and I had $100 gift card so I spent virtually nothing. Lol

Even if it was 100% out of pocket it really doesn't matter you looked at the 5090 and decided you wanted one that really should be the end of it there isn't anything available that offers more it's not like a better competing card is cheaper.

Nothing wrong with investing into your own hobby. It paid off with the 4090 hopefully it does the same with the 5090 but even if not you get 2 years with that bad boy min....

 

[cerulliber]

care 2 share 3dmark results?
virtually 1h to run all suit tests I think

 

[_roman_]

Well you got one more view. Cool

Buying in the first day means you do not get a card which was returned from someone else. And got electrocuted because of lack of measures of the guy who returned the hardware. (ESD ground plug + esd wire + esd wrist strap)

 

[Chrispy_]

care 2 share 3dmark results?
virtually 1h to run all suit tests I think

3DMark? Ewwwwww - nobody wants 3DMark scores!

Here at TPU all we care about is Geekbench

 

[mclaren85]

Have fun with your your new toy. It's absolutely amazing.
So what was the little pencil-like thing for?

 

[Calmmo]

It's a big'un

 

[BoggledBeagle]

It's a big'un

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What is the little card in the photos?