ASUS RTX5080 Astral - Outstanding Cooling with Excessive Fan Noise

[@jmeistr]

Designers: It would look cool with 4 fans. HQ: Have you tested it? Designers: Nah. HQ: Very well, go on then.

[@3mPeRaToR]

😂😂😂 I dieded 😂😂😂😂😂

[@r3tr0c0e3]

it's assus, so not much to be expected, ooooh but that led looks nice! lol

[@el0j]

HQ: what about CS arent they gonna get a lot complaints? CS: dont worry about it, we'll just tell them it's user error and charge them 100 bucks for a bios update

[@OmahaGTP]

"Just send it"

[@foldionepapyrus3441]

In fairness the extra fan probably is very useful, perhaps even required in some cases to get the expected performance from the card, especially if they are using the same cooler on the hotter GPU as well. The bit I really don't get is how they split the fans up, the rear fan and one in front it really aught to be their own separate channels so you can tune the sound profile of having those two fans 'co-operating'. The other two fans can share and it doesn't matter or I guess the front 3 could all share and it wouldn't matter much as the noise is largely coming from the iteration between the two fans, so you only strictly speaking must have the ability to control the RPM of the rear independently of the front.

[@SL1PSTAR]

Maybe the fourth fan is added to mask the coil whine. 🙂

[@TheDeeGeeNL]

Seems about right for ASUS cards.

[@EmoEmu]

Ho hum

[@cesaru3619]

LOL

[@Walhor]

asus card STILL coilwhine? I heard people complain about that since 1000 series!

[@technolucas3720]

I think it's added to mask the cost actually.....marketing adds value, don't ya know?

[@vintajecheese7803]

4 slot cooler with a 2 slot bracket, another generation of GPU sag. I can't believe that EVGA solved this on their 3090 Ti by customer/viewer feedback and no other AIB has even thought about stamping a proper width bracket.

[@rizrizriz]

It is honestly ridiculous.

[@mateosantos4980]

my MSI 4070 has a 3 slot bracket, it helps a lot.

[@DuBstep115]

5080 FE is a 2 slot card that ran at 75c and memory at 82c. Why are we cooling a 280w card with 4 slot 700w coolers?

[@cladinshadows99]

You do WANT to buy their branded anti-sag stand and/or bracket....right?

[@ruikazane5123]

@@DuBstep115 If only reviewers can test these cards without A/C and somewhere fairly warm, that would make much more sense. Assuming that 75/82 degrees was measured at 25c environment, at 35c those numbers will be 85/92 degrees at the very least...temp over ambient

[@dominic.h.3363]

General consensus: Push-pull is largely a placebo. ASUS: Can't hear you over the sound of our four fans.

[@zorbakaput8537]

Judging by your comment you are well versed in placebos.

[@dominic.h.3363]

@@zorbakaput8537 Only equaled by your penchant for redundance.

[@millinag3817]

Of course Push pull is overrated...

[@Tom_Quixote]

Four fans? It's like those shavers where they just keep adding more blades.

[@AK-Brian]

MSI's "definitely not a Lightning, but also it's a Lightning" Special Edition 5090 has five fans, so that should be a fun card to review once they release it.

[@RaineyPeng]

I love my six blade razor cartridges though

[@WayStedYou]

They forgot a second S in Astral.

[@EvilChameleon420]

🤣🤣🤣

[@3_goda_ne_igral]

😅😅😅 :DDDD

[@maxdave9590]

Yeah what a BIG ASS-TRAL CARD

[@nichronos]

ASSus

[@puciohenzap891]

SUStral

[@Hyper_4ever]

While the rear fan is disabled, removing it completely should end up with better result as the disabled rear fan itself is blocking airflow.

[@tektkite7255]

it would be even better to run at whatever rpm it can do without being loud

[@Mindseas]

@@tektkite7255 In theory yes, but there's the unfortunate side effect that having two fans like that running different rpm can cause issues with noise, and more importantly the fan bearings/motor.

[@bernardoalbano1816]

That is unnecessary if you are buying it stock, just unplug it and dont risk damage

[@clifflenoir4323]

Funnily enough, that is exactly how the Asus TUF model is: there is clearly an empty space in the back of the cooler for a 4th fan but it is just not there. I would have thought extending the cooler fins would have made more sense but maybe that would increase the air resistance and flow?

for the watercooled 5090 cards in NZ they are over 6k you can buy a whole pre built gaming pc with a 5080 inside it for 5.5k. Make it make sense lads.

[@chillnspace777]

😂 wtf

[@TheKazragore]

Cheapest model on PC Case Gear is $4039 AUD. Utterly ludicrous.

[@michaelan9688]

We get shafted hard in NZ

[@lexavaritia7596]

i always wonder about NZ price since i had a relative there was planning for them to buy a laptop there and send me. turns out its more expensive there lol

[@WildRapier]

Damn. Roman did some engineering and testing for ASUS in this video. Remove 1 fan per card x (how many cards produced), that's a lot of money being wasted! Asus should throw you a consultant fee, just for the info! Wunderbar!

[@tg246]

Everything it's binned on the Astral, it's simply the fastest 5080 in the galaxy, like it or not.

[@ZomgZomg007]

Overpriced lol

[@peterpeter5666]

Nash just sell a kidney. You have two

[@PCZONE1]

Crazy astral is $1000 more then the Msi supreme soc here.

[@NazNaxs]

Here it’s 1,500$ astral and 1,360$ Msi suprim liquid and gigabyte water force is 1,350$

[@NKY151]

All of it is. Been since the 20 series. You born yesterday?

[@zappulla4092]

@@NKY151then don’t buy them.

[@swizzler8053]

3099 euro for a inno3d 5090 here in Holland 😂😂😂Keep up the great work bruther and stay safe.

[@T33K3SS3LCH3N]

Yeah same pricing in Germany, yet all 5090 and even 5080 models sold out instantly. As much as enthusiasts like to complain about the lackluster gains, consumers are buying.

[@r3tr0c0e3]

so? same idiotic price for 4090 at this point it's not even an iq test, that one was performed in 2019

[@slopedarmor]

Lol well i quit smoking weed which is saving me 32 euro per day so i would totally buy a pretty looking 5090 for 3099 this year

[@cesaru3619]

NOICE

[@DuBstep115]

@@T33K3SS3LCH3N "yet all 5090 and even 5080 models sold out instantly" when you say ALL that means like 3-5 per store. The whole Germany got like 50 cards.

[@parlor3115]

I don't know how board partners think. A noisy, overheating or overdrawing card shouldn't make it past quality assurance, but here we are.

[@Tuhar]

The most expensive card should be the loudest, clearly.

[@TheDeeGeeNL]

ASUS has been turning into a bottom of the barrel brand for a while now.

[@CossackHD]

Extra thick heatsinks also require higher static pressure (and thus louder fans) to provide any cooling at all. I'm stuck with moderately loud fans even when GPU is just at 30% load. It's 0 RPM in idle, or audible 1000 to 1300 RPM under load. Inaudible 800 RPM is pretty much useless for cooling. 3080 Strix.

[@foldionepapyrus3441]

Do have to remember he is testing on an open air bench - the results in a case will vary and bias the good results to towards the cards with more cooling potential, and the noise from inside the box is slightly less important as the box even with very little effort put into the sound profile will deaden it some. If you are having to choose between packing something like this or a FE into a smaller case (that this would fit in still) this probably outperforms and won't overheat or be as loud in comparison.

[@importslunglowful]

And you all play games with no sound at all right? So, if you have sound on which I imagine you will or headphones on that fan sound won't make much difference so quit whining.

[@borisvokladski5844]

3.8 = 4 slot. You cannot buy a 0.2 PCI(e) slot device

[@raketensven3127]

It's the 99 pennies (less than a euro/dollar/pound) marketing bs yet again :)

[@Lapsio]

it has 2 slot bracket so it will fit some cases that allow only 2 slot GPUs installed vertically but still have some clearance between side panel. Ig that's the only case when it matters that it's not full 4 slot...

[@Hagop64]

He was just trying to give an accurate size description. 3.1 slot and 3.9 slot are both 4 slot. They are not both the same measurement.

[@FrantisekPicifuk]

@@Hagop64 Then give exact metric or imperial measurment. Putting a decimal point in PCIE slot "thinkness" is an absolute nonsense.

[@queazocotal]

Some cards next to the GPU might in principle benefit from the additional airflow gap. But...

[@saltedearth1879]

It really annoys me when these super thick cards only have two slot metal brackets!!!

[@TheDeeGeeNL]

PNY is the new go to brand really.

[@anthonylloyd7085]

You can prop it up with inserts but it’s just not the same lol. Anti sag bracket is a must - I like the ones that use motherboard standoffs though they can get in the way of headers

[@importslunglowful]

Does it matter? That thing is so big and heavy no matter how many brackets it has it will SAG. So extra screw's to play with getting it on won't make a difference.

[@Imperius12]

@@TheDeeGeeNLgainward phantoms

[@j3ffr0ck24]

$1499 US at my Microcenter😂 edited PLUS tax. Aprox $160 more= $1659

[@garystinten9339]

$2700 AUD..

[@alteito]

$3600 US from argie pesos...

[@toonnut1]

$100000 on Mars

[@accik]

Here 1680€ so ~1750 USD yey

[@user-gq3eq5bf9t]

25 cents on kepler 72b

[@katzicael]

This is so on-brand for Asus quality/QC these days - Halo product with a Serious flaw lol. The NZ pricing on these cards is insane. They cost more than a 2015s used car.

[@murathanozdemir]

Maybe adding a resistor to the ground or positive pin of the rear fan cable might solve the problem.

[@Flokker]

This is a paper launch. Fight me in the grocery aisle.

[@Pwnag3Inc]

Fight You? Hell i will join you!

[@SwipedUp]

Let's just find the best deals on groceries while we're there, can't agree with you enough on this being a paper launch, it even seems rushed since they have no stock.

[@Raznak]

7:30 am tomorrow at walmart in the cleaning product isle

[@lamikal2515]

No no, let's settle this to the narest Waffle House.

[@DaveMacara89]

Was anyone expecting it not to be?

[@TechyBen]

That PCB is like 2x the size of the founders edition PCB.

[@bigmango202]

I remember when the gtx 1080 came with a 500w psu recommendation and thinking that was an insane amount of power

[@Aurora1337onYT]

Exactly 😂

[@iamdarkyoshi]

And it cost 30% of what this thing does.

[@wewillrockyou1986]

Pull fans are very hard to get right, you get interference between the heatsink fins and the leading edge of the fan blade that creates noise which is very hard to get rid of.

[@Duracellmumus]

There is no solution because this kind of fans are not capable to pull air or make negative pressure on the input side. Just make push on the output side to make a flow and the flow will drag the air at the inlet. The smaller gaps between the fins make the input side loading much worst.

[@Al_Lergic]

Not on my NH-D14.

[@MachineCreature]

​@Al_Lergic probably because of that gap between the fins and the inlet of the centre fan. Larger slower fans help as well.

[@Scarlet_Soul]

Its currently £1799 in the UK. That is ridiculous

[@tourmaline07]

They might as well make that rear fan out of gold for the £500 extra they are charging you for it!

[@Al_Lergic]

Brexit at its finest.

[@94b20gsr]

Interesting. Astral 5090 here, the card runs cool and quiet. Over 500w load is reporting low 60's for temp and no loud fan noise. TPU did a review as well, and sound was closer to the Suprim, which is quiet.

[@House..]

So the 4th fan isnt loud?

[@94b20gsr]

@House.. Not at all with regular gaming, 500-520w loads. If you manually turn the fans up to 100%, they will reach ~3300rpm and make a lot of noise. While gaming, they seem to hover around 1300rpm in performance mode. While moving to 8th place in the Hall of Fame for Steel Nomad DX12 last night, putting the fans at 100% kept the core and ram under 55c for the entire run while WireView was showing around a 610w pull from the 12vhpwr cable. The cooling is capable of much more than normal gaming requires is the picture I'm trying to paint.

[@tg246]

@@94b20gsr My Astral 5080 is also pretty silent, can confirm what you are saying. While gaming I get around 300-350 w tops, fans stay around 1200-1300 rpm in perf mode. Temps are also extremely low, like yours. Vram goes to 34500 GBs without issues too.

[@94b20gsr]

@@tg246 Very similar experience then. The fans on the card are capable of just over 3300rpm and do make some noise there, but gaming has never pushed them past 1500rpm on mine, which is still not much noise. With the fans at max, I can run 3D Mark tests and the core never gets to 55c and the vram stays in the 50s while it's pulling ~620w from the 12V-2x6

[@TheBenchmarkNerd]

The prices are so dumb for these card and the paper launch is just crazy

[@alexg350]

And they still think they are a Premium brand....They never were.

[@zappulla4092]

They should be embarrassed with this.

[@MadAllDay]

thank you, again, so much for doing these in both English and German!

[@diamondblack3776]

"from suck to blow"

[@Tom_Quixote]

At this price, it better come with full service.

[@MetaldetectingAdventureTime]

​@@Tom_Quixotehappy ending 😊

[@nichronos]

Fake frames with fake launch at fake MSRP! Best GPU generation ever.... People vote with your wallets! We don't need 2x the price over 4090 for 20% raster performance! This is literally a scam! Cheapest card is above $3000 while I bought my 4090 for $1600

[@zappulla4092]

Get over the frame gen already.

[@JJFX-]

​@@zappulla4092I don't think most of us would mind if it wasn't what Jensen used to try manipulating the public into thinking this generation is more powerful than it is. The guy literally presented the 4070 as "twice the performance of a 4090" without even attempting to qualify what that means. So yes, I think MFG has interesting potential but considering it's not even properly supported in most titles I think it's totally fair to keep calling it out.

[@skt-stk]

why the hell is the IO shield bracket thingy only 2-slot?!

[@Houstonruss]

Doesn't really help with structure, makes case compatibility better, better for waterblocks, bracket likely works for several skus. The cards are so heavy they'd need a gpu support anyway.

[@rustler08]

@@Houstonruss Don't spout nonsense when you don't have any clue what you're talking about. It has absolutely been demonstrated that it helps with structure. Also, waterblock companies should make their own brackets. OEMs should not make inferior shit so that EK can cheap out (because they're the only one too lazy to make a replacement bracket for their kits).

[@IcecalGamer]

@@rustler08 You need more up-doots 👍

[@Ngo1ful]

I really like the idea of a graphics card with fan plugs. If they are speed controlled by the GPU then you could have case fans that spin up when the GPU is getting hot with no extra software bloat.

[@michaelbuto305]

Galax already try that. But its unpopular because how big their card is. I think people already realize Card that took more than 3slots, is a no no.

[@tarfeef_4268]

100%. I have told PCI SIG that they need an optional register to report card temps so systems can use that for fan curves Since they don't care what I think, I also own a collection of gpu fan header to case fan header adapters, so I can assign a radiator to react to GPU temps instead of CPU for everything

[@PoRRasturvaT]

Fan Control is not that much of a bloat, you know? Works so much better than any other software with the custom curves that you can put on basically any fan and any sensor the thing can detect.

[@CossackHD]

I disagree with utility of extra fan headers on GPU, mostly because it gonna look really ugly with the cables. No need to use them unless you lack headers on motherboard. I had 2 GPUs with this feature and never used it, but it would be useful if you deshrouded the card and placed 120mm case fans instead of the stock ones. As for case fans.... Fan Control is lightweight software with extremely flexible ways to set up fan curves. I got case fans speed adjusting depending on average between CPU and GPU temps. Asus software could do similar things, but it would also cause occasional BSOD when I'd switch profile.

[@user-qq8ek4zs4s]

MSI Suprim and Vanguard are the best aircoolers this gen when noise normalised.

[@G4m3m4st0r]

This video made me buy the Wireview Pro for the Asus ROG 5090 Astral in advance, thanks Roman.

[@JETWTF]

The 2 extra fan plugs for adding fans is so the GPU can control 2 case fans and the CPU can control the rest. Standard fan control is an either or situation. Either the CPU controls the fans and they don't ramp up when only the GPU is under load or they are controlled by the GPU and wont ramp up when the CPU is under load. Plug the 2 case fans that mostly feed the GPU into the GPU and the rest into the motherboard and you have a hybrid control so both get fed fresh air when needed. That's a great feature that should be on all cards today considering the premium price.

[@edindzaferovic1451]

I think we had those on Vega 10.

[@williamtopping]

Think I will wait until next year when the actual 5080 is released.

[@allenpost3616]

That is the smartest move. 👍

[@rustler08]

I mean, the 5090 is 27% faster than a 4090 with 30% more power. That drops down to about 20% faster with power limiting. So, even if they make a 5080 Ti using the GB202 die, it's still going to be insignificantly faster and likely $1,500. You might as well buy the 4090, because said 5080 Ti would only be slightly faster.

[@JDD_Tech_MODS]

My order of Duronaut arrived today!!

[@Al_Lergic]

The MX-4 is cheaper and better tho.

[@akkanomark]

good lord look at the size of this monstruosity. Kudos for the nvidia engineers that managed to put all that on a 2 slot

[@suppermanzzzz291]

I've been using my RTX 5080 Astral for a day now, and it's impressively quiet, so I think the noise on some reviewers is related to old bios? even with all the fans running. While playing Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, the temperature stays at just 58°C. In Time Spy, I achieved a score of 36,040 with a core clock of 3255MHz and memory at 32,000MHz. The only downside is that manually overclocking causes coil whine. However, if you stick to the default OC mode set by ASUS (2955MHz core, 30,000MHz memory), the card runs fine without any coil whine issue.

[@suppermanzzzz291]

just an update， i got 37456 on time spy you can check 3dmark score

[@NOOBLETS]

I was going to get one of these, but I need the fans quiet/silent for recording videos. Can you do another video and tell us if Asus fixes the fan noise please. ty

[@rogeld6677]

Look at this. The entire stock of ASUS RTX5080 Astral's

[@kaiakoken]

This card model is created for aggressive OC. Simply adjust the curves of the fans. You do problems...

[@saifalmaaytah636]

I really liked Galax implementation for the fourth fan in the sg series you can detach it if you don't want the extra air flow

[@AK-Brian]

Yeah, it was still a bit of a silly feature, but they made it very easy to just opt-out.

[@PointingLasersAtAircraft]

The PCB looks like a 70's series.

[@VelcroSnake93]

I had a Strix card in the past where I connected fans directly to it because I ran it deshrouded, where the case fans were the fans for the GPU itself, and connecting directly to the GPU (before I got software that could assign fans speeds on MB connectors for the GPU temps) made things easier.

[@TrekCZ]

So you can chose between noisy fan or coil whine. Options, options.

[@Petr75661]

The 12V connector should be at the bottom and perpendicular to the PCB.

[@GoldPunch]

This is too excessive cooling and price for an RTX 5080 gpu. It makes more sense to me buy from cheap brands like palit and pny for an rtx 5080.

[@FM-kl7oc]

4:00 It is to allow the Astral to control case fans all by itself without needing software or using headers from the motherboard.

[@vladizt5943]

A fan extracting air through a radiator tends to be louder. Moving it slightly farther from the radiator especially if it’s positioned too closely should greatly reduce the noise.

[@mateuszw1995]

Nvidia in Funder edition is constantly evolving, bringing more and more effective coolers. All other vendors just stuck in medieval. "Add more slots, add more fans - PCIE slot will keep it" :P

[@viperpit-k5j]

Roman got me laughing with unplugging the fan and it is better. You should make gpu's also.

[@tourmaline07]

He did make a neat 3D printed shroud and fan assembly for the RX 5700 XT a while back - it's a shame it makes little sense nowadays for custom air coolers for GPUs like the Arctic Accelero etc . Useful back before Ampere when the FE cards were rather noisy and not cool at all.

[@wimpyhugz_TGK]

Imagine a Thermal Grizzly × KINGPIN collaboration designed-and-made graphics card...

[@thefrothingotter]

14:50 I do like that the card is a single pcb and the connectors are directly on the card. The founders edition is multiple pcbs and a ribbon cable for the connectors. Still too expensive, but 4th fan aside, a better build design

[@ZackSNetwork]

This design is more practical and far better for water cooling.

[@inflex4456]

I kinda expected it. From my experience all fans in tandem tend to be very noisy. If you set them at similar speed they work and you can hear them working, or set them at wildly different speeds, it is quieter but then the slower one blocks the airflow more than helps.

[@aggressiveaegyo7679]

They lacked just a little height to match the thickness (Then it was possible to make it even narrower) so that the fans could be mounted on the side and the PCB wouldn't block the flow path. I think I saw somewhere an experimental video card where the PCB was narrow and long on the side where there is usually just a logo. found, quad-slot RTX 4090

[@quantum5661]

GN reviewed that I believe

[@redsaints]

Well I hope you were able to get a custom 5090 to test. I never even saw one available in Germany for a second, was refreshing most sites and checking other sites showing what was available. Saw some 5080s for a few seconds before they were gone.

[@N0N0111]

9:36 Why don't you try a different motherboard and PSU, people have say when they swap hardware the coilwhine gets less loud.

[@leander4107]

Some people tested this card in Quiet Mode 4, the fans did not exceed 1100 RPM, the card is quiet, coincidence? Except that Performance mode and Quit mode are not switched when the card is turned off, because it remembers the last value.

[@thorwaldjohanson2526]

Some constructive feedback: for the noise levels you might wanna scale the bars logarithmically for perceived loudness. So the bar length represents the perceived noise more intuitively. While "twice as loud every 10db" is not a perfect science, it's a great approximation.

[@MarioCRO]

I have a feeling that 5080 will sit on the shelves as 4080 when initially launched. 7800XT and 7900XT along with 4080 Super will now be selling chart topers.

[@stucclikechucc]

im so happy i got my 4080 super instead of waiting for release i woulda been on a 1660 super for even longer cause i dont think i would be lucky enought to get one at msrp let alone a all white one to match my first custom build

[@H8ts]

Please test the OC headroom on these NV partner cards... that's pretty much what I need to know.

[@danielsmullen3223]

I think the extra fan headers on the PCB are a carryover from variants which are intended to be liquid cooled. Take this with a grain of salt, it's completely speculative and I haven't had a chance to see any of the LC variants yet.

[@changestyleman]

please review the liquid cooled astral!

[@infango]

Hot air form 3 and 4 fan is directly pumped to CPU fan.. i wonder how this will work in case ?

[@kazuviking]

The 5090 is already pumping up the cpu temperature by a good 8-10C. its blasting a solid 300W extra heat into the cooler.

[@TheDeeGeeNL]

No issues with the 285W from my 4070 Ti being pushed into my Noctua NH-D15.

[@BrunodeSouzaLino]

Considering the massive size of these new cards and their TDP, I'll call those "Fermi 2.0" because that's what they are. More expensive, bigger power requirements, bigger TDP, bigger volume, more weight, higher temperatures and no significant increase in performance

[@UbergamR447]

great video! thank you :)

[@Kheops.]

8:35 is it useful because the new connector is prone to fail and burn? I'd trade those infos for a fixed connector 😅

[@michaelan9688]

Im interested in how the noise testing was done, as im wondering if the fan facing the microphone and being much closer to the microphone causes skewed dBA? Then again I guess the additional fan is closer to the PC user anyways 😂

[@terryohare7049]

Hey buddy i love your videos! Is the astral just replacing 5080/90 strix as asus have a 5070ti strix on the website

[@dqniel1755]

I wonder if you got a defective backside fan? The TechPowerUp review has the noise levels being roughly equal to the FE in "P" mode and wayyy quieter than the FE in "Q" mode.

[@TheMohd11]

Nice video, thanks mate, plz tell me if i'm wrong, but double the noise equals 3 more decibels. So 9 decibels equals 8 times the initial noise level

[@amrmoustafa328]

missed the part where noisy fans are an issue ad... Sorry but you are right maybe there are other ways to to this.

[@JBits-m9p]

completely removing the fan may also help with airflow. Asus marketing probably made them install the fan, if you are going to copy nvidias design idea at least test it first.

[@adammaik]

Roman, your charts list Asus Crosshair X870E Hero with BIOS 9945. What kind of BIOS is that? I thought the highest available was 1003. Thanks

[@stauntssantana]

Afaik ASUS uses 99** to denote testing/beta BIOSes and 9945 is a very early BIOS version for the Crosshair X870E Hero earlier than any publicly available version.

[@adammaik]

Per SAFEDISK, test/beta/public bios files carry same name. Does not explain why this particular one was used with 9800X3D during testing. Would be nice to get a clear explanation from Roman.

[@fredEVOIX]

I tried everything in cooling and quickly gave up on push-pull it always create an annoying whine because one fan will be faster or more powerful and force the other one into over-rotation, it would work theoretically if they were both perfectly synchronized but it never happens in reality so you end up with annoying frequencies being generated

[@KooYu]

On the next test just remove the 4th fan completely for better airflow through the card. It could help a bit more with thermals.

[@NAMOR5000]

Hey Herr Roman, what is the W/mK for that Duronaut material? No mention on that website nor in both PDF's. I don't care much for this type of material, much rather prefer micro diamonds which have a much higher W/mK. So do tell what is the W/mK. Tschüss Herr Roman.

[@tomstech4390]

15:33 it's adorable! little core with 16GB gpu should be £600

[@Snotkoglen]

Yay! Bubbles and thick thermal paste. Repaste and test please.

[@davvehallberg]

Would probably have even lower temps with the rear fan removed, since it is in the way of the airflow off the fan below it.

[@FURNACE_YGO]

I just hate that you can't get the FE cards in Australia as they are just beautiful looking cards. So much more slick than the others

[@aggressiveaegyo7679]

What about waiting until summer? Or are you lucky enough to live in Canada or Norway?

[@molly_mallard]

Thanks for telling me about Duronaught after I just bought Hydronaught. Which is better?

[@loninappleton]

Please describe the heatsink and oversize fan setup on the bench motherboard.

[@georgem.6136]

Awesome! Now we need some waterblocks!

[@eduardomartin8510]

I kept hearing "Pee Mode" 😂

[@Mindseas]

Yeah, that's Asus peeing themselves laughing so hard on their way to the bank. With the way these are priced I wouldn't be surprised.

[@AJsWorld]

Will removing the back fan entirely make it even quieter/cooler? Then it becomes pure flow through on that one fan

[@medovk]

no overclock? i was sure you would give that thing a run for its money…

[@junyaiwase]

It already gave him a run for his

[@medovk]

@ sure did 😂 but i would like to see how much can be squeezed from it. hardware unboxed got some crappy msi 5080 to 3200mhz, surely this one can do better…or its really not worth the price.

[@raketensven3127]

It's a borrowed card from Asus.

[@medovk]

@raketensven3127 okay but testing OC with afterburner shouldn’t break it, if that happened than it’s definitely not worth the premium

[@valenkz]

5:38 are we not talking about the hot spot cassualy idling at 255°C?

[@House..]

Thats not the actual hot spot temp, it was removed ignore the 255C

[@valenkz]

@House.. I know i would have melted long ago, I thought it was funny to point it out

[@Elurahu]

I was able to pick one up today. Would you recommend unplugging the rear fan for general use?

[@AJsWorld]

How much unused space do you want on your PCB? Asus: Yes! What a joke this card is

[@codybarrow4036]

Why did they just not have it 4 wide at the IO end, it would add to the structural integrity quite a bit.

[@potato_melon7847]

As far as I read, the 5090 astral has only 8 heatpipes where msi suprim soc has 11. The noise levels and temps are better on suprim (memory is 6C cooler over the astral) while losing around 2FPS on average in performance since slightly lower boost clock. All for 400 USD less, so it is kinda no brainer to buy astral. I'm very curious about ASUS TUF, which has 12 heatpipes, but didnt find any review yet. It would be nice if you can get both TUF and ASTRAL and compare them against each other.

[@BrunodeSouzaLino]

But are the heat pipes the same thickness? You might be trading 6 for half a dozen in some cases.

[@potato_melon7847]

@BrunodeSouzaLino check temps of the astral and msi suprim on techRadar

[@ashenwattegedera]

Dont know why but One fan spinning and the other 2 stopped looks kind of cool to me.

[@chrisloh7404]

i am wondering was it necessary for the FE to use liquid metal as it seems asus without it can get better thermals? or am i wrong?

[@PlantainSupernova]

Makes you wonder how good we're the KFA2/Galax 4th fan cards of the 30 or 40 series in the past. Or, the 50 series for Gigabyte, that one comes with a 4th one that's a case fan, or looks to be one, sitting full width on top of the rear screen opening, can be ran without it.

[@edindzaferovic1451]

Hot spot 255° not great not terrible-Celsius, Fahrenheit or Kelvin?

[@larsjrgensen5975]

255 is just because there is no sensor data available from the GPU. The number will likely be hidden away in the monitoring software with the next software patch.

[@valaryc]

11:00 I would disagree with the opinion of what the stock setup should be. I want tip-top peak performance, as much of it as I can get, right out of the box. Overclocking and tweaking fan curves manually can be tedious and time consuming, so, if the manufacturers have mode-selects, I'd prefer it be kicking as much ass as it can right away, noise be damned. The fans in the video didn't sound too loud anyway.

[@1SaG]

It's not yet listed on my go-to price comparison site, but Alternate-de has the Astral listed at EUR 1699. So basically 4090 levels of price but without 4090 levels of performance. What exciting times for GPUs we live in!

[@samiraperi467]

5:25 Yeah, the fan noise is audible, at least on headphones.