I created a 1 of 1 Custom Water Cooled RTX 4090 Matrix

[@TearyBoi]

“To matrix” this guy Jensen has absolutely no clue what’s going on outside of a data centre

[@der8auer-en]

hahaha

[@zorbakaput8537]

Did you think of the alternate view - that he knows exactly how the Matrix fits his data universe?

[@Alexandra-Rex]

@@der8auer-en I get a text under your _"hahaha"_ that says _"Translate to English"._ When I do, it become just _"haha"._ 😄

[@nicknorthcutt7680]

😂😂😂

[@criznittle968]

​@@Alexandra-Rex it's a German humor thing

[@p_mouse8676]

The story of the charity and the fact that you don't put YT money in your own pocket but give back to people who really need it, is just so great and noble. Made me a bit emotional 😢

[@Xfade81]

shame about the people that outbid him but never coughed up.

[@Hephera]

my dude he makes a lot more money from youtube than 16k. have you seen the cars he drives?

[@p_mouse8676]

@@Hephera yes and there are plenty of guys like him who would rather spend 16k for themselves. Btw, are you donating 16k to charity?

[@InconsistentManner]

Thermal Grizzly is his bread and butter

[@justjosh11]

@@Hephera I've not - what cars does he have?

[@st0nedpenguin]

Oh man, I could watch that hunk of copper being milled for hours. Those beautiful tooling lines.

[@7w4Term3lon]

glad it's not just me

[@JustCarnivorousCupcake]

That is the best 4090 matrix to exist, still keeping its look. Job well done! Edit; for the 5090 matrix/special edition card Asus should just collab with you, because it would be a monster gpu and make sense build-wise

[@Real_MisterSir]

Would be sick to have both their Noctua collab, and then also a Der8auer collab.

[@JustCarnivorousCupcake]

@@Real_MisterSir Exactly, I don't think a more premium gpu, both in terms of design and build quality, would be possible to exist

[@sfvirgo]

yea i see this alot also on the software and games side... the mod community does so much of the devs work but they are the enemy

[@MicahXXIII]

Please let this happen!!!!!🙏🙏🙏

[@clintcolombin]

Asus should implement quick disconnect fittings, instead of tubing. Then, is people want to include it in an existing loop, they have that option.

[@GaiaGoddessOfTheEarth]

Exactly, lots of people who have custom loops would happily spend a lot on a gorgeous card like that and having qdc's on the end would be amazing. They could still include an aio that could also come with qdc's so for people buying the card without a custom loop can still use it just fine.

[@joesaiditstrue]

the issue isn't being able to add your own radiator. it's that their GPU block is below average in performance. they should partner with DB and let him design the block and then just add the pump to the radiator, AquaComputer has done this, so has Swiftech

[@lostphotographs3936]

Well Done Roman! What a humble personality given all that you have done for charity! I would like to say thanks for the outstanding video's over the years. Please continue to work hard, its an inspiration to see you continue to improve your content, and how it impacts so many is truly a great thing! Cheers Sir!

[@der8auer-en]

Thanks a lot!

[@fteoOpty64]

Honourable German who drives a GTR!!!. Welldone.

[@jess2690]

With all the crappy stuff going on in the world, its nice to see some good happening. Good on you for stepping up and helping a child with cancer in need. The world needs more ppl like you.

[@glenntinamiller6199]

Crazy how peeps will trash talk anything on the internet...... Man I am emotional I have a daughter that is 24 now and has brain cancer at 3..... She was built a playhouse by make a wish and she is a cancer surviver with one blind eye and half her body stoke effected but she is here and happy... Thank you DerBauer that playhouse helped her recover and live so you must know this is more than most people will ever know thanks lots Bud..............

[@theb4r138]

Releasing that card as a custom block but also attached to a radiator would have been amazing. That acrylic terminal block would look good in black acrylic

[@HGKaya]

The guys behind the stealth tubing, the modding cafe, have a video about converting it to hard tubed custom watercooling. At this price, it is a product for pc enthusiasts, therefore it should be the best possible version, they could come up with.

[@der8auer-en]

Yea I saw that. But they only changed to tubes to connectors. They kept everything of the original including the pump. Also didn't solve the nickel plating problem

[@msytdc1577]

"This Ferrari was nice but not perfect, so to fix it I disassembled it, designed a new engine block and sand cast it in my own foundry in Italy. After reassembling the car, it looks the same from the outside, but it is better 😑" - The German car enthusiast KZbin @@der8auer-en channel in the other timeline... 😂😂😂

[@floorpizza8074]

You gave that young boy some joy for his remaining time on earth. Best 16,000 Euro anyone has ever spent. Makes me proud to be a Thermal Grizzly customer.

[@roboman2444]

The window showing the chrome hard tubes looks fantastic. Great job. Maybe replacing those plastic "chrome" pieces at the back with some nickel plated aluminum fittings would work. No need for that chunky acrylic thing sticking out the back, but would still give you the threaded connectors.

[@Mortalheart]

Roman, Thank you for being such a noble-hearted person. I can already see in your eyes that when you give money to others, your heart rests with the feeling. I have to admit that when I saw the picture of the cancer patient, tears came to my eyes too. It is an honor to be a member and a part of your channel. This is how people should think of others and support them. You rock man!

[@superflyguy4488]

And charity donations are tax deductible.

[@hayleyxyz]

​@@superflyguy4488 In Germany?

[@hussainmohd6298]

absolutely gorgeous, we demand a der8auer water blocks line!

[@116RonH]

I love watching things being milled on a CNC machine; there's something satisfying about it.

[@roberthelcher2884]

I love this design. I hope Asus picks this up for the 5090. I love seeing you getting more involved with water cooling. We need more trustworthy companies like yourself.

[@alexc5564]

One word for you and team "BRAVO!!!"

[@basshead.]

Johnny Bravo

[@alexc5564]

I saw another Asian builder do a similar thing but few month back, and he did a few high-end builds on the channel using it. I think the channel is call BRO Cooling

[@11131618570]

Thank you Roman for being down to earth kind of man. Good health to you and your dear ones! Also you should sell the custom matrix card for the children on auction.

[@Goopie-gz4tc]

Topic, speaker, content, editing, filming ... top video!

[@chieftron]

@1:07 that username is wild LOL!

[@chogardjr.]

Time and time again you prove to be the best in class. Amazing work!

[@Anonymous-m9f9j]

Thank you for being a force for good. I’m proud of this community.

[@hellraiser666666]

great video. takes me back over 20 yrs. building my own water jacket for my cerelon300A (got over 450 mhz out of it) and my geforce 256! those were the days! lan partys! good times!

[@Horus9339]

It is not us that made the choice, you are the one that deserves the honours for helping those that are having a difficult life. Well done Sir, you are a great Man.

[@bismuth7730]

The terminal would be absolutely sick if it was a part of that black frame around the card. Love it der8auer!

[@Guru_1092]

I actually don't like being able to see the tubes through the plastic/glass, but I understand that's just a matter of preference. Solid work Roman!

[@randomname392]

The second i saw one of these gpus, i was so happy someone actually made a good-looking water block that isn't just either a black box or pure acrylic. It was only the next second that i got sad because that didn't happen. It's just an aio.

[@kutnpaste]

This is absolutely gorgeous.

[@johndoe7270]

The way he milled that out, man this channel is criminally under noticed. Amazing work!

[@slouchee3767]

If Debauer decides he wants to become a Movie Evil Mastermind Villian that takes over the world. We're all screwed.

[@game-tea]

real german engineering right here

[@Plutodeli]

Superb stuff. You've done the CPU IHS, now honestly get your hands in this too, and preplan for the next gen too.

[@ColinChang8]

I've always loved the look of the Matrix but as I've done my own custom loop, I wouldn't have been able to incorporate in into my loop out of the box. If ROG ever did make a standalone waterblock like you've done here, I'd be all over it. Great work with this! Also, "To Matrix" lmao

[@jjann54321]

This reminds me of the old BASF slogan, "We don't make the products you buy, we make the products you buy better." Hats off to Roman (der8auer) and his team.

[@deadxwreckoning]

That looks and performs fantastic! Great job with this and preserving the original aesthetic.

[@labemolon5739]

Can’t wait to see that overclocked and the before and after performance!

[@YuokoII]

Damn I had this idea in my head for a while. This is the most beautiful gpu waterblock. Sadl I don't have skill or money to do this myself. Awesome work! I really hope that waterblock companies will start to create more stuff like this instead of generic gpu blocks that are really boring.

[@Tephra]

Great project. Billet Labs makes 1/4" threaded copper inserts for soldering directly into the ends of standard size copper tubing. Something similar could've been a very neat looking alternative to the acrylic inlet block.

[@BudgetGamer92]

"To Matrix" 🤣 that man has no clue what the consumer products are, he just sees dollar signs lol Man if I could even just get my hands on a normal 4090, but this one is beautiful. It's probably closer to $5000 Canadian making it even more out of reach than normal. You've got some talent to design stuff with such tight tolerances and being able to make it look BETTER than ASUS did!

[@PapaC-o9b]

that's amazing mate, you have very good skills well done.

[@st0nedpenguin]

Made an already incredible looking card perform as good as it looks.

[@bandile126]

I hope Asus will listen, they can even have the pump at the radiator sold separately for a quick connect custom loop if they are trying to cater for people without a custom, I don't know why none has not done that yet.

[@Rockport1911]

I can totally understand the concept of having an AIO solution for this card. It works for someone who wants and off- the- shelf solution to stick into his build. But the next generation 5090 cards should have atleast one variant that has a great waterblock pre- installed for the use in a custom waterloop :)

[@Nickles4]

This is why I’ll always support you and what you do. Such a good dude

[@afireinaleo1771]

I've been wanting to do this to this card for so long!!!!!!!!! Awesome job as always!

[@MarkRiker]

One of the best ASMR videos imho, and I love the result. Very very tempting. Roman you need to enter the watercooling market.

[@Matt___B]

the wait for a custom gpu waterblock begins XD mycro direct die + gpu waterblock combo from der8auer? SIGN ME UP!!!!!!!!!

[@talbotwolaver]

I already have the mycro direct die (the first version sadly 😂) and yes, would absolutely LOVE a GPU block from Der8auer! Here’s to 50 series getting them!

[@Matt___B]

@@talbotwolaver nice, im about to build my new pc :D (with mycro pro) how is the V1 performing for u, and in combination with what cpu?

[@talbotwolaver]

@@Matt___B it does phenomenally well! I’ve got it on a 7950x and after some fine tunning hitting 39k points in R23 fully stable (I have gotten 41k points, but found some games would crash the system) and max temps of 75°-76°C. While gaming it’s around 50°C. I’m sure I could go in and do a better job with under volting each core, but I’m too impatient for that.

[@razorsz195]

Meanwhile i have custom looped the legendary GTX 1060 in a sleeper case, b450 motherboard and CPU too. It was my first proper GPU as an upgrade from a Geforce 5 FX 5200 and the temperatures for an old Thermacore 120mm AIO from 2008 are astonishing, Much like the temperatures you saw for the 4090, theres going to be so much headroom for overclocking!

[@SAFFY7411]

The people bidding on the card probably thought they were on ebay 😂

[@McJurrie]

That gpu is a piece of art! I love the look of it so much.

[@setitfree78]

This would look so good in my pc.

[@Danixik]

huge W for donating to the charity and not about the GPU, you are really nice person, hope you will achieve all of your dreams :)

[@MrHonestZ1]

Love the custom job you did to it .

[@Marcel1984nl]

Thanks Der8auer for the kind words to the viewers I totally understand the way you bought the NVIDIA card and sometimes it is good to go a little beyond your limits for something special, in this case also for something useful for someone else, a good cause.

[@mrcbeee]

RTX 5090 Der8auer edition coming soon?! Also, you managed to make a pretty card look much prettier, amazing job!

[@pretendawatch]

Roman is such a nice and brilliant person. Damn.

[@TheGreenninja0]

Honestly ive been waiting for someone to do this.

[@mbe102]

Off to sell my liver, hold on to that for me!

[@criznittle968]

same, meet you at the hospital!

[@der8auer-en]

@@criznittle968 hahaha :D

[@drewnewby]

@criznittle968 Hospital? No way, have to go to a back alley to get top dollar.

[@discostoo]

I've already sold one of my livers. I only have one left I think.

[@ToTheGAMES]

@@discostoo what

[@ChairmanMeow1]

Gotta admit, that thing is pretty sick. That is a museum piece!

[@blackIce504]

the Nickle or chrome pipes with the rgb plus the window actually make it look better, its strange it looks stock but better.

[@legion3343]

Roman you are a good egg.. Glad you are an important part of our community.

[@markbrettnell3503]

Just goes to show when an enthusiast has access to a cnc milling machine, the creative additions that can be accomplished.

[@OneCosmic749]

7:12 good showcase of how AMD platform usually behave

[@Slay3rOne]

Having integrated quick disconnects would have been really cool on this one. But that would have been much more complicated to do. Otherwise, having the G1/4 flush with the card, with tubes like the ones from Billet Labs, where they solder a G1/4 threaded insert into copper tubes themselves. So it would be hidden inside the two plastic covers.

[@alien2525]

Wonderful video. Congratulation for the results on temperature. I have only 1 suggestion. Buy some fix stand and cameras for filming those videos. U will also have both hands free for the job u are filming.

[@molly_mallard]

Beautiful work!

[@ryan_orley]

Ok that looks so cool well done. Also amazing job on the donation. ❤

[@Kunteki]

they could have done this and then have an in rad pump, so that it would still had been a aio card as purchased, but would have better customization compatability

[@genocidehero9687]

$4000 US. Thanks, - ASUS

[@custume]

14:18 add a light to the inside next to the tubbing (like a blue or red), it will look really nice.

[@KuroDensetsu]

I wish manufacturers still had video cards with custom loop blocks from the factory. My EVGA Hydro Copper 3080Ti is the last of it's kind.

[@Goldenhordemilo]

Top effort love the memory temps

[@Dan-Simms]

So cool, both figurative and literal.

[@stevedenton7986]

Do not listen to the haters for even a minute! You did a fantastic job der8auer! Make a wish is an excellent charity and you did good!

[@BillyONeal]

I’m normally not a sucker for RGB, but those fans are fire 10:17 causal surface finish absolute FLEX I agree that this original card not being custom loop able didn’t make sense.

[@paskowitz]

I'm running a Watercool Heatkiller V Pro Ultra block with normal paste (I used KPX) on a 4090 TUF PC w/ Matrix BIOS. At 475-525w power draw (port royale 4K), With a stable water temp, 110l/h flow rate, I get a water to core delta of 12-15c. 400w would be

[@Psychx_]

Very nice! I would have used delrin instead of acrylic due to its better mechanical properties though.

[@Zorndar83]

That is such a good looking card, almost like a stock card too. Very pretty.

[@N0N0111]

3:40 Because you are now officially "Neo" in the matrix generated by Nvidia AI.

[@Apollo-Computers]

That's one thing i love about my aquacomputer next 2080 ti block. It did paste on gpu and mems then used 1mm pads on EVERYTHING ELSE. It covered and cooled every component on the reference board. I still have it, with ambient cooling it performed better than my Kingpin 2080 ti! I so wanted to take the gpu and mems and put them on a kingpin pcb. Edit: i agree with the person that the terminal should have been in the gap between the frame and card. Would look so much cleaner. I want one.....

[@matacachorro4090]

Derbauer is a much better engineer than Asus engineer

[@heygeggan]

What a beautiful card with your mod!

[@gamernerd7139]

In about 4 years we may get GPUs with the new glass interposer technology that has significant advantages in thermal transfer over current organic substrates. They are claiming over 30 percent improved conductivity. Developing new heat tranfer plates for this might be worth while development target. Water Cooling has new frontiers to look forward to .

[@ReaperHackz]

This whole is just amazing thank you for the donation and video about this 1 of a kind gpu so amazing!

[@babbytenders]

I'm a noob with a 3070 but watching stuff like is inspiring 🤘

[@jacoavo7875]

My best guess as to why Asus did not make it an open loop card is maintenance / RMA costs. Selling it as a closed loop card would probably have MUCH less hassles with RMAs, although that is only my guess :D.

[@arel77]

man thats beautiful ! great work man

[@marinipersonal]

Totally agree. They could’ve included an AIO approach, no issue, but instead using some similar solution to some aquacomputer rad/pump combo, or similar. This way would be almost an AIO but better, or simply store it away and go full custom.

[@everths]

Amazing temps. If you can make a water block similar to the 4090 FE it will be amazing.

[@KingtmacXX92]

If companies want to sell AIO graphics cards in higher numbers, i believe that focus is better fitted for ITX cases. ITX cases usually support a 240mm radiator, and the 7800X3D is easily tamed with a low profile CPU cooler. I may be wrong but i see a way better market for AIO liquid cooled GPUs in the SFX/ITX format. Not to mention its usually easier to make the cards smaller with water cooling, you'll see 4 slot cards become 2 slots cards.

[@brucepreston3927]

Your version looks so much better! I can't believe they made this thing with an AIO on it...

[@adjoho1]

Thermal Grizzly GPU block when?

[@der8auer-en]

:D not sure. Maybe with RTX 50 if things work out

[@kaing5074]

When you can spell ignoramus

[@Sectorz]

​@@der8auer-enwould be amazing many will drop EK.

[@Andersonairchris]

​@@der8auer-en I would buy a TG waterblock in a heartbeat. I just went direct die with TG stuff and everything fit and worked perfectly, unlike what I deal with when using EK nonsense

[@MaddJakd]

Don't mind the complainers. They need to understand that not everyone is playing gamer, or hobbiest, nor building a system off the loose change under the couch cushions exclusively, nor are we obligated to. Some of us actually want this crazier stuff, or are considering similar amd theres nothing wrong with that.

[@OfficialEthern1ty]

Such a nice project. Love it !

[@SaarN1337]

Great video, watched the whole thing from start to end. 1. Haters gonna hate - I'm sure you have access to pretty much all of the latest cards, who cares about a 4090. Thanks for donating that money. 2. Sick transformation! Asus doesn't care about longevity, they'll make a sick cards that works for the meanwhile, and in a few years of regular use that water pump will die and that card will become a brick, since it doesn't have any aftermarket watercooling parts. That's why I wouldn't puchase any card with a built-in AIO (an AMD equivalent would be the Sapphire Toxic - and Sapphire is a great company). Every video ends up with me thinking that I want to have a CNC machine at home

[@tiromandal6399]

Looks better, performs astronomically better. Roman annihilates the entirety of Asus' R&D all on his own!

[@WasyaSsss]

Don't you need to cool those VRMs and coils next to them that are not in line? You can see them at 12:52 on the right side beside that bottom right screwhole and also one beside top right screwhole. I heard that they get pretty hot but I don't know if that relates to these, spreaded on the board, VRMs.

[@DJSammy69.]

Super Mega Awesome! Well Done!

[@MaavBR]

They could very well have the normal fitting threads in the GPU, and have it come with a quick connect fitting to the built-in AIO (and a pair of the same quick connects so you could install them on another WC tube maintaining the stock look)... and the price seems to have a big enough margin to allow for that. :/

[@NeroKoso]

You won it after all, nice!

[@abdulshabazz8597]

Someone needs to make this watercool technology the standard.