That is incredible, am super envious!.... she's a keeper for sure! Maybe they shipped it with some extra ice packs inside
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50 Series Partner Cards Showcase
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100% - last one I fitted cost me a new gpu
Nah, not worth putting yourself on a ‘list’ for those gaming gains
Dragons though… might put you onto a mega elite gamerz list!
Could not agree more. My 3080ti has screaming coils and I can't do anything about it as I put a waterblock on before testing it. Won't make that mistake again. I'm almost to scared to look at the price of the waterforce when it drops. Back in the day I convinced myself I needed a 2000 series waterforce and there was a definite premium to be paid.
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I'm hoping to reaplace my 2080 Waterforce WB with the 5090 version. Same thinking regarding price although I suspect availability will be the bigger barrier. None of the other big 3rd parites seem to release water blocked cards.
Alphacool have the most info out so far about blocks and have advertised early availablity for a number of models. Check thier socials.
Haha maybe I won’t bother with this gen since this card is only two months old hahaThat is incredible, am super envious!.... she's a keeper for sure! Maybe they shipped it with some extra ice packs inside
It’s weird cause my old GPU (1080ti) would hit 80c and that was under water lol
I just assumed that GPUs had advanced a lot in terms of temperatures and this was normal these days
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My PC literally only has one Dragon at the moment so by getting a MSI card I'm expecting a serious Dragon uplift of at least 300%.
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Just noticed the Aorus Master comes with a 4th fan you can slap on the back
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I’ll take any AIO liquid cooled variant.
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Linus video with every launch day GPU at CES (Just in case they look better/worse in real life).
For anyone that hasn’t watched these vids, the ASUS ROG Strix is now completely unlike the 40 series ‘tank version’ and is now plasticy.
If you want a chonky and heavy ASUS thicc-boi, you need to get the Astral… or a TUF.
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The TUF actually look really nice this year, but a solid grey card would stand out too much in my build (Black NV9).
The Prime is really neat but they are not doing that in the 90/80 class.
I'm not sure about the Astral. Love the side bar but I think overall I preferred last years. I mean it just looks so different, almost speaking to a different audience. I wonder if Asus took Nvidia's "not for gamers" PR literally when designing it lol.
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They don't even do a xx80/xx90 class Strix anymore. It's only for their 5070ti and below. Astral is xx80/xx90
The Astral is nice but it's 100% going to be too expensive for me to bother considering.
Surely that's got to get in the way of the RAM on any ATX mobo?
Just noticed the Aorus Master comes with a 4th fan you can slap on the back