50 Series Partner Cards Showcase

[Noxia]

Any Asus or MSI is the best bet then. Of course coil whine is completely unpredictable, but I wont go there!

Yeah I suppose one of the AIO cards may fit if I took out my top fans, or I could swap my CPU AIO about, I dunno. Yeah don't mention the coilwhine lol, some of those 4090s were horrendous, and nobody can say "they all have it", if that was the case I'd be able to hear the good one during the same test as the countless others I tried.

I thought it was 3, it wasn't, it was 3 Suprim X's I tried and at least 5 other models before that.

 

[Ascendancy]

Is the Dragon actually LED? If so all is forgiven. Will match my motherboard perfectly.

Kinda, the product page states "LED lighting is diffused through a frosted cover and a dragon totem that radiate energy."

 

[Hostile_18]

Kinda, the product page states "LED lighting is diffused through a frosted cover and a dragon totem that radiate energy."

Yeah I looked into it further, I'm not sure how much they wlll be able to "radiate that energy" through metal lol.


deduplicate list online

 

[Ascendancy]

Gutted. Would still look nice next to the existing dragon on my board though. Can never have enough dragons.

 

[jammir]

So this is what that angled connector looks like plugged in. Not sure.

That's how the 3090 was

 

[Hostile_18]

Gutted. Would still look nice next to the existing dragon on my board though. Can never have enough dragons.

There's a nice one on the Vanguard but I expect that SKU to be very expensive.

It looks like the Inspire is 5080 only and made up of worse parts than the others surprisingly.

 

[Hostile_18]

That's how the 3090 was

Might look worse here because its more rectangular/flat, hard to say.

 

[Pitsnow]

Alphacool already have designs for a few partner reference cards and have made a statement on the FE to the effect of "We shall see".

I had a look at their website but nothing is shown for the 5090 yet. Is the above statement from their CES presence?

 

[TrojanWhore]

Is the Dragon actually LED? If so all is forgiven. Will match my motherboard perfectly.

Wouldn't count on it - In the expanded view here it looks like it's just punched out of the backplate.

https://www.msi.com/Graphics-Card/GeForce-RTX-5090-32G-GAMING-TRIO-OC

You might be able to remove the pastel sticker/plate and just have it the same colour as the rest, but I don't think I'd want to do that at least until the warranty runs out

 

[Vtec9k]

Nice to see white cards on launch, Gigabyte seem to be doing the full range in white. We'll see waht the tax is on that though

Asral and FE look great, as are the MSI's.

 

[Hostile_18]

Wouldn't count on it - In the expanded view here it looks like it's just punched out of the backplate.

https://www.msi.com/Graphics-Card/GeForce-RTX-5090-32G-GAMING-TRIO-OC

You might be able to remove the pastel sticker/plate and just have it the same colour as the rest, but I don't think I'd want to do that at least until the warranty runs out

Looks a little more subtle in real life, so its fine. Last gen only Suprim had the vapour chamber in the MSI stack, so need to check that.

@Ascendancy here be Dragons!

 

[kindai]

Liking the alphbacool block.

 

[Ascendancy]

Looks a little more subtle in real life, so its fine. Last gen only Suprim had the vapour chamber in the MSI stack, so need to check that.

@Ascendancy here be Dragons!

Ok yeah that actually looks quite nice in reality. That might be the one.

Although, this version comes with an actual dragon...

 

[TrojanWhore]

@Hostile_18 I'd just realised you'd posted the expanded view between when I loaded the tab and when I replied

The iridescant looks much nicer than I thought from the static pics!

@kindai Those blocks look great, but are they the same model or two different possible variants? - looks like one has ports on the top and the other on the end

 

[Hostile_18]

As long a you don't put the figure in your PC I'll allow it.

Also I think with the Trio, the Dragon on top would defuse the RGB you already have in your case, so that makes more sense.

 

[kindai]

@kindai Those blocks look great, but are they the same model or two different possible variants? - looks like one has ports on the top and the other on the end

Consumer and server models

 

[TrojanWhore]

Ah, makes sense... although unnecesarily pretty for a server

 

[Ascendancy]

I think I still want the Astral more, but it's probably going to be £2.5k and not sure I want it *that* much.

 

[Hostile_18]

I think I still want the Astral more, but it's probably going to be £2.5k and not sure I want it *that* much.

Yeah just looking at that, the light strip looks really clean. But like you say is it 300-400 better

I think the fe for me is just edging everything.

 

[Ascendancy]

The FE is an option, but I'm waiting for the review for that one, mainly because I'm super interested to see how they've got a 575W card down to a 2 slot cooler while all the other AIB models still come with a shipping container bolted on to the side.

Also, I need a backup plan for 5 seconds after 2pm when the FE sells out.