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You have what you have, and I’m working with what I’ve got to work with. In my situation it’s not the fastest 5090 in the world, I have a msrp 5090FE, and a waterblock on the way for it! But I’m going to break 17K+ Steel Nomad with this card. It’s going to be really fun to try. Seems doable to me though.

@johnksss That FE cooler is a 2 slot cooler, so while it is nice, 2 slot doesn’t cool as well as 3+ slots (You know this). But I think all air coolers are gonna suck at the end of the day when trying to bench right? So that dudes shunted FE would need to be on a chiller for some better scores. Is your Astral on a chiller right? I am merely saying, I think someone with a 5090FE chilled can squeeze some nice scores. Not saying it’s the fastest in the world. But it’s cheaper.

5090FE is fine man. If I didn't like it, I would not keep it that's for sure lol! I had a 4090 Gaming OC and @johnksss that thing was cheap as hell, flimsy, light weight, and loud as hell with bad coil whine, but not this card, this card feels nice and premium and heavy etc. So, it's okay for $1,999.99 (People do try to convince me that my own GPU sucks though, they do not like it, that I like it I guess 🤣) Last I checked, Astral+Block = $4,000, too much for me to afford. But at least they perform TOP NOTCH once you water block it, flash it, and solder it.. Yes, the FE's have weak coolers; I cannot hold that against it. It's going on water/shunt anyways. I mean, your Astral is probably faster than an RTX Pro 6000, but that doesn't mean it's better than one. FE's have weak coolers but not weak cores. Definitely an acceptable GPU for the price tag and performance. Card scores perfectly acceptable for a stock cooler, hot, non-shunted 5090 FE. Plenty of other 5090's that cannot hit these numbers out there, and this is the hottest one you can buy. 🥵 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 video card benchmark result - Intel Xeon W-3175X Processor,ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG DOMINUS EXTREME

If I drove the 2hr 31 minutes to Charlotte, North Carolina at a Microcenter and wanted to buy one, (assuming they had any) this would cost me $3,603.58 USD. This includes the 5090 Astral+ 7.25% retail sales tax. No additional warranty or replacement. For this money I would want to build an entire PC with a custom watercooled 5090FE, or save $1,500 and build an entire PC with a 5080FE. Of course it would take some effort to secure one of these GPU’s. But it could be done.

Wow, I’m surprised you returned this thing. What 5090 are you buying next? Maybe the more budget friendly RTX Pro 6000? 🤣

Did you have one melt before? Yes, I sawed it. I could see your FE sucks flag/banner raised up from my bedroom window. 🤣 How much do you wager? 😎

Are you in a case with fans? Or using test bench? My 4090 ran warmer on my open test bench, than my 5090fe does inside a closed case.

They pretty much are, they have 390w bios.

Was your 5080FE normal $999 MSRP?

I’d test that 5080FE and not worry too much about this at all, it may be really efficient with power, from what I read they are efficient. They have a 400w max power limit. My 5090FE is extremely efficient with its 600w cap, and it under-volts insanely well and sips power. I have no problems keeping up or beating other AIB 5090’s because they just aren’t as efficient, so even though my card is hotter it’s still able to get it done. This happens with 5080’s too. I have learned a lot about the RTX 5000 generation, and it’s really all over the place. So I’d still definitely test that 5080FE, it may very well surprise you. Also, the price is cheaper than all the others.

I’m kinda surprised you’re entertaining another 5090. I don’t think you’re gonna like the Gigabyte though, you’re probably already spoiled at this point is all lol. It’s going to feel plastic-E and light weight/cheaper in comparison to your Astral. But you may very well love it! If it’s a good card that’s all that matters. My 4090 Gaming OC was fantastic for the price of $1350 shipped, and I loved it. But, it felt like a toy GPU lol, It had the “Outdoor Bug Zapper light” coil whine tone in any load scenario, the core maxed out at 2,895Mhz reliably, even 2,920Mhz on the desktop with no load or games open would lock-up windows. With all that being said, I still really enjoyed it, I had a loud system at the time with a 59dB chiller anyways so it didn’t matter too much how noisy it was. It was amazing for the money and fast no doubt and that’s why I loved it! I think that’s honestly why I’m happy with my FE being total opposite of what I had, it doesn’t feel like a toy, it feels like a solid heavy high quality GPU, the silicon is soo much better than what I had before. In my current build the loudest item in my case when gaming is when my Lian Li Gold Edge 1200 PSU fan cycles on/off, the only thing I can hear is my PSU fans. Definitely a new problem for me and what I’m use to.

Are you planning to watercool your 5090?

It’s very possible that the majority of PC gamers, install a game and simply play it. They won’t even change their default graphic settings. And they don’t even care. I was the one to teach my own son. But I remember when he’d install a brand-new game. He couldn’t care less about his graphics, or his frame rate. He would just be so excited to play the game that it didn’t matter. The 9060XT 8GB is the “On/Off Switch for PC gamers” Option A: No graphics card, (Cannot play games at all) Option B: I have a 9060XT, I can actually play games now. 🙂 They wanna force an upgrade out of em down the road too! 😂

Oh my goodness!

Why does it look so bad? For some reason when I zoom in, it looks like a 8 year old spray painted this thing.

How are you cooling the card?

If you swap from a glass panel to a mesh panel this is what happens. Sound travels with the air. Every 5090 has some level coil whine. That’s just what it is. Astrals, FE’s, the list goes on.

If the 5080FE wasn’t power limited it would help its case for sure. I have no problem taking on “Non flashed/Non shunted” 5090 Astrals with my 5090FE in Steel Nomad or other benches. But it is unfortunate for the 5080FE. Still a good card for $999 for FE. But, that 360w VS. 450w is a clear 25% less TGP disadvantage. Another thing about the 5080 that sucks, is how the die is laid out it has (4) shunts. So you would have to solder on (4) shunts to power mod it 😂

@electrosoft I don’t think he is big on flashing otherwise he’d be running that Giga Chad bios on his Astral from Gigabyte, and he’s on stock Astral bios. He just likes dog’n on the ole FE. 🤣

I’ve had great luck with them. Like many others. My 2080Ti FE was 2080Ti HOF fast. Me personally, I don’t care what it is so long as you can make it fast, a GPU is a GPU. Many golden 4090’s were in the form of FE. motivman had a crazy good 4090FE. That thing absolutely ripped. I’m all for cheap+fast. But I don’t overthink the stock form it comes in. But I understand that some people may not modify their own cars, they may want that high HP right out of the box. You gotta take a solder iron to any of them this generation. Unless you’re Linus lol.

Well, not quite but I get what you mean. My 5090FE was $1,999. But not sure if any one else on here got one for that much. 😕 It was really a select few. The market is crazy. I think that Doom inspired 5080 is really cool though, and if someone did not own a 5080/5090 already. I can see my self buying that for $1,899.99 with the T-Shirt. It comes with a few other goodies too. PS: Bethesda Gear store has a 10% off promotion code for first time orders. So, $1,709 (Still terrible for a 5080, but it’s a really cool 5080 at least!) This brings back nostalgia for me mainly. Because my first Nvidia graphics card was a eVGA Doom 6600GT. And I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I was 14 years old and you wouldn’t believe what I did. I removed that tiny dinky cooler, bought me some Artic Silver 5, and a massive CPU heatsink, and I zip tied it to the 6600GT. I was running 3Dmark01SE and 3Dmark03 and whooping all the other 6600GT’s 🤣 I loved my Doom edition 6600GT. This is when it all started for me. I think the Astral is pretty cool already, and a Doom theme Astral is even better! The only thing I dont like is the 16GB GDDR7, but still, if I didn’t own a 5090 ready, I’d get that. foto vinden op internet

Yep, recording with Shadow Play is at least a 5% loss in frame rate for me. I did hear someone say the latest drive also improves performance by 2%. I was using the older driver. Too graphically demanding for a Doom game though. 🤣

It’s a crusher on native 4K! My 4090 Laptop will probably run it good, but it’s 2560x1600P, and Frame Gen will be its savior. But I think something like a RTX 3090 would really struggle. Frame Gen is excellent feature.

That’s excellent! I almost bought a copy from another guy who received a free copy as well. But then I discovered it’s free for Game Pass users, This new Doom game well, It’s not the typical Doom which are usually “Amazingly optimized on Vulkan” game, prior Doom mentality is = (run it maxed out on any GPU ya got) lol. 4K native pushes the 5090 ridiculously hard and actually uses it! Makes no sense though. Of course, DLSS+Frame Gen make it run really really easy. But, I don’t understand why they did this. It should not be this hard to run.. My 5090FE smacks it down hard, especially when I’m not recording gameplay, but not everyone has a 5090 lol. This game would whoop something like a RTX 5080 during 4K Native 🫠

DOOM Dark Ages is very fun! It is on Game Pass for free with subscription!