I just bought the world's bougiest GPU, an Asus ROG Astral Dah Hab or Gold
Edition. An $8,000 RTX5090 with 6 12 g
of 24 karat gold on it. But where could I possibly get a gaming PC? A a throne,
if you will, that's worthy of this Sultan of GPUs. How about the awesome
Taipei Tech Mall that happens to be just a few blocks from where I did the deal
to get my hands on this bad boy? You may remember Guang Hua Digital Plaza from
the last time that I visited and walked out with this incredible machine. Well,
this time I'm back and the stakes are even higher because I'm not planning to
give this PC away to the first LT fan I see. This time it's personal. So,
sponsored by ASUS who wanted in on the action, I'm going to be searching for
the builder that I can trust to do it justice in terms of performance and
aesthetics. And because I'm spending my own money, I'm also looking for a decent
deal. Step one is to look for my candidate builders. I'm going to be
asking them to send me a price. And perhaps more importantly, I'm going to
be asking them to send me a portfolio because these are small shops and they
don't have the room to show off all their capabilities right on the show
floor. Like look at this place. They got a pile of GPUs in the back of them
that's as tall as Taipei 101. Of course, I don't need a GPU. I already have that.
I need everything else. Do you do custom PC builds? Mhm. I have the coolest GPU
on Earth. This one. Mhm. And I'm looking to do a build that is worthy of it. I
don't want to waste money cuz I already waste enough money. It has gold on it,
right? Mhm. And this ain't going to be no just like get three quotes, pick the
middle. They got to convince me. Ooh. Okay. These guys build some cool stuff.
Can I pick up a system by Friday? Friday. Oh, it's okay. It's okay. Isn't
that wild, dude? Top of the line gaming system. Oh. Oh, you want it fast? Oh,
Friday. Easy. That's in like 4 days. Can
you send me a quote? Yep. We're going to ask maybe three shops and then we're
going to pick the one that is going to do the build. Oh, these guys have my
attention. That is a cool build. Curved
hardline water cooling. I mean, Andy, I'm sure you know what car this is, but
it seems cool. Okay, there you go. English. Yes. Yes. I
got the coolest GPU. Oh, you got this? Yeah. I need the rest of the system. I
want it to be a good spec, but not wasteful. Now, I asked three builders
for quotes here in the mall. I will only choose one. Basically, I need a good
quotation for the parts. And then most importantly, I want a really cool
concept for like the case and the style and the cooling to match the GPU. I want
your concept. Okay. Your art. Okay. I will discuss with my engineer to see how
to do it. Of course, it would feel wrong if we didn't give the OG a crack at
building our throne. Hey, man. Hi. How
you doing? This time, I'm not filming in secret. Okay. I have a new assignment
for you, should you choose to accept it. I got my hands on a very special GPU,
and I'm asking three shops. I want a quote. I want them to send me examples
of what they think are their best builds they've done that they think would be
worthy as a throne for this GPU to sit
on. I need it by Friday
again. Okay, I'll try my best. But he's
got to beat out the other two competitors. Okay. Okay. All right. Good
to see you, man. Me, too. Somehow I feel like he's going to have a shot at
it. Now, it's time to do my two favorite things. Eat Chef 78 spicy fried
chicken and reviewing PC builder quotes.
So, just as a refresher, we've got the quote from the OG. We know he has what
it takes, but he's pretty busy. How bad does he want another commission build
right now? Builder number two up on the sixth floor clearly has the skills and
the artistry, but is their pricing any good? And finally on the bottom floor,
lots of showcase PCs, but do they have a concept for me? Dude, this is so hard to
pick. were anywhere from $3 to $4,000,
but all the specs are very different and
none of them are wrong. My OG buddies got the 16 core processor, Trident Z5
Royal memory, not to mention a 4 TB SSD
and a surprise in the water cooling. That's enticing, but then builder 2 on
the sixth floor. Okay, we only get the 8 core processor, but realistically,
that's probably all we need. And I'm apparently getting a $1,300 custom
cooling loop with a custom gold paint
job and like some kind of like diarama
on the bottom floor. I think really leaned into the bang for the buck. Like
that's a pretty good value other than maybe the motherboard and the cooler are
a little bit out of line with the rest of it. And then the other two not as
affordable, closer to $4,000. How do I pick? No matter who I
go with, I'm going to feel so bad. Oh. Oh, shop 2 sent an updated mockup of
the diarama. It has like camels and stuff, but the case from the OG, it puts
the GPU like right front and center, and it has a better spec. I want to know
what $1,800 of custom cooling and theme
design and modification gets me here in the tech mall. Let's go with builder 2.
Come on, Andy. Time for the pickup. Let's go. Well, they're not ready yet.
Apparently expo issues due to having four sticks of memory. Never seen that
before. If only there was some video they could have watched where they could have seen this coming from will be in
the top. It will fall if you put like a normal way to carry it. Okay. Okay.
Okay. Thank you. He just explained to me that if I tip the box on the way to the
hotel, it will destroy the system. It will fall apart. Okay. How the hell am I
going to get it home? Oh, get it home. Get home. Yeah, I thought you meant like
to the hotel. No, that's fine. Oh god, I might have to give it away after all.
Time to find out if there's any conceivable way that I can transport
this. Oh, and I guess this is as good a time as any to mention that ASUS is
celebrating 30 years of GPUs. 30 years of bangers, I might add. They've done
some of the coolest overclocking models over the years. Hybrid liquid and air
water cooling, fully water blocked ones. They were one of the earliest to do the
massive PCBs and coolers that have become so popular now. For better or for
worse. Coming live to you from the Taiwan show. Now he wants it. It's
funny. You're gross. And I guess we'll see you again next week. Uh, same bad
time. Uh, same bad channel. Bye. And
when show is finally over, which means it's time. Luke, you're coming into this
a little cold, but I thought you'd enjoy this. We will be unboxing a
$12,000 computer from the tech mall from
last year. And to give you some idea of what we're coming up against, that is a
fill bottle. For some reason, that's in my accessory package. Okay. Uh we've got
a box for a water cooling reservoir. That makes sense. Y power supply box
with extra cables. 1,200 casual watts. Fancy platinum.
Extra hardware. Always love to see system integrators include that. One
tube. Water cooling and me by Luke
Lefrenier. An extra sleeve extension and some extra cable combs. Oh, hold on,
hold on, no, no, no. You can't do that. That's right. Okay. We were given
specific instructions that the correct way to open this is to slice open the
bottom and then lift the box off the top. Oh, it's water cooled. Also, it's
apparently extremely fragile. Oh. Oh, speaking of which, wait, what? There's
some extra figures. These appear to be hand painted. At least the ones that are
painted. How are you going to get this home? I think it's PC giveaway to
electric bugaloo. Nice. But first, we need to see how they did. Yeah, that
means I don't really want to slice open the bottom of the case. Oh, because I
need to carry it around and give it to someone. I don't got no packing tape. Okay, so we going to try to lift out of
the top then. I'm not actually familiar with the case manufacturer, Dark Flash.
Never heard of them. If I didn't have a diarama in my computer, this foam could
probably help it survive the Oh god. Okay. Well, I can see why they want us
to here. How about this? I've got the box.
I'm worried the Get the Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
Okay. Okay. Oh, it looks so good
already. I can barely even see in there. That looks awesome. This was their
initial pitch and I was going to go with the OG. And then while I was deciding,
they sent an updated pitch. And I was like, "Yo, do that one.
We got to see what they cook." Wow, dude.
I wonder what on here is custom and what was just already default on the case. I
can tell you this GPU mount probably wasn't part of the case. Yeah. Yeah, it
doesn't look like it. But you can get at two to three of the display ports, which
ought to be enough for anyone. Oh my. Oh, you're on. You can you can kind of
see it through back here. One of them must be like a model train enthusiast or
something or like a tabletop gamer. Is this case available in gold? I don't
think so. I think they did this. It's pretty good though. You guys ready? Big
big moment. Big reveal. Oh my
god. What? They've got an oil ring. Oh,
and it actually looks like it's the color of oil. Yeah, that's actually kind
of sick. That is awesome. Oh, the cable
combs look awesome. Oh, the RAM looks fantastic. They blew it away. They
really do. This is fantastic. They completely understood the assignment.
The tubing runs are great. Immaculate.
Look at this tube. Yeah. You know, I was
thinking there really aren't that many components that actually theme match
this graphics card, but other than painting the case, I think this is
offthe-shelf stuff, and they just nailed it. the Trident Royals, the cable combs,
the like oil looking water cooling fluid, the sand, the sand was an
incredible touch. Now, there was one drama as they were creating the case.
They were having trouble getting it stable. I don't know if it's like a
cultural thing because this is now two systems in a row from the tech mall.
They like filling all four memory slots and on AMD, yeah, that's not a great
idea for performance and compatibility. Let's see what they managed with custom
timings. Time for this computer to become as turned on as I am. Hey.
Hey. Uh oh. You can't plug that in. It's
HDMI. Wait. Oh, I mean it'll work. Yeah, you could
use the power of the GPU through the onboard port. Just makes me want to cry.
It looks so wrong. And it loses a little bit of performance. Yeah. Do you have a
keyboard? What?
Uh, didn't we have one secured? I thought you have a keyboard. No, I said
I have a mouse and a mouse pad. I mean, controller time. Are we firing this
thing up? Sure. You want to do the honors? Yeah.
Woohoo, buddy. Would you leave it on full RGB like this? Yeah, I'm tacky like
that. Okay. Uh, no bloat that I can see.
Well, I mean, other than the usual. These antenna quick connects are cool. I haven't actually seen these yet. And the
IO on this motherboard is flipping wild. Oh, wow. That's nice. Uh, it's not
cheap, but it has onboard 2 and a half gig, onboard 5 gig networking. It has
two 40 gig USBC ports along with the two 10 gig USBC ports. Bunch more USB. Like,
this is an out of this world motherboard, which is good cuz it's like
$6 or $700. I don't love that they seem to have all the fans just at max speed.
I guess from a performance standpoint. Oh, they don't. They're not. I thought
they just had everything as a flipin exhaust, but nope. These are reverse blade fans. They're intakes. All right,
that's really nice to see. What about this one? Okay, so we got two intakes,
four exhausts, which means things aren't going to be that balanced, but also
three of those exhausts are through a radiator, so through a decently thick
one, too. Shouldn't be too too far off.
And I guess to maybe their credit then, the intakes are running at full speed,
so maybe that was intentional. We haven't looked at the cable management at the back. I got so distracted by the
shiny I just completely stopped caring.
Sure. Oh, there we go. Okay. I mean, it looks nice and clearly they painted even
in areas that you wouldn't necessarily expect to see. Do you have a
screwdriver? Always. ldstore.com. Nice.
Ah. Oh, yeah. Inside of this is painted
as well. This looks really nice. Okay. And it's uh fine. But to be completely
honest, it was totally covered by this whole thing, so it doesn't really
matter. While we're waiting for my games to finish transferring, why don't we have a look at what memory speed they
ended up getting it running at? 6,000 mega transfers per second. But what did
it cost us? Ah,
timings. So, this is supposed to be a CL28 kit. We're running at
CL36. Not the choice I personally would
have made. If you must have all four things populated and you want the best
performance, there are dummy modules that you can put in. I just think they
probably didn't want to do that because then they would have had to use different memory. I don't believe GSkill
makes dummy modules for their Royal and this was obviously the correct memory
for this build. Obviously, this is it, Luke. It's time to go. the Sultan of
gaming PCs and I'm on a controller
and plugged into the motherboard which still pains me. We're at 4K ray traced
ultra getting a casual, you know, 150 frames per second, you know, just like
whatever, right? Like whatever, right? Cuz we have a 50 90 that is gold.
It adds a little bit of performance. Dude, the game looks great. So it does.
can confirm if you spend $8,000 on a golden graphics card, I can tell you two
things about yourself. One, you're pretty bad with your money. That's
really real real stupid, buddy. And then number two is you're playing Cyberpunk
at uh 100 plus FPS. Yeah. So, you got
both of those things going for you. It's time. I still kind of can't believe
we're giving away a $12,000 computer. Yeah. We need to settle on a plan. I had
an idea that we put it in the box and then you like pretend you're struggling
to move it and the first person that helps you just gets a $12,000
computer involve you being strong and me being weak.
Oh my god, it's so heavy. This is sponsored by ASUS, so it was pretty
convenient for me that they happened to spec it with an ROG power supply and
like a top-of-the-line ASUS motherboard to go with the GPU. Okay, I'm just going
to take a little break, you know.
joining your video. Can you join the video? Yeah. Uh, yeah, probably. Do you
know who he is? Yeah. Yeah. Hi. Nice to meet you. Are
you traveling here? Uh, no. No, no, no. Uh, here you can carry it. Oh my god.
Okay. You got it. Careful, careful, careful. You okay? Okay. Okay. Okay. Do
you think you could carry that for 1 minute? Yeah. Do you think you could
carry it for 5 minutes? No. Did you see what's in here? Do you play games? Yeah.
What games do you play? We will play this too slow, but my computer is FPS
too low. FPS too low. Yeah, I don't think that's going to be a problem
anymore. Oh my god. This is the gold edition RTX
5090. 5090. 5090. Oh my god. And then we
have the Ryzen 7 9800 X3D. Your
challenge is you have to get it home.
Oh my god. Congratulations. Oh my god. Thank you,
bro.
Do you know how much this costs? $5,000.
US you're doing? Yeah. US. $360,000 NTD.
12,000 US.
The gold GPU is 8,000 US. It's actual
gold. Not all of it. Some of it, but there's real gold on it. So, they did a
special golden paint job to go with it and special uh golden fittings to match
everything. Best day ever. Well, I'm just glad that we could be part of it.
Enjoy your new computer, man. Uh, what game did you not get enough FPS in, by
the way? CS2. Oh, CS2. Yeah. Oh, so your
computer is pretty slow. Lower than 50 FPS.
That'll be no problem. Yeah. You want to play CS2? Uh, I think
maybe more like 500 600 FPS. Okay. Bye.
Bye. Bye. the shell shocked look on his
face when I said $12,000. But he had no idea how to
process that. I was rooting for him because if someone else snagged it while
he was like that'd be brutal. He would have regretted that forever. Do you want
to get some soup dumplings? Sure. Let's do it. When you decided to stop there, I
was like this is his one shot. He has to come now or else he's not going to was
busy. I think someone would have caught us. Well, our soup dumpling place was
closed, but we have moji moji, which is uh apparently mango cheese tea. Yeah, I
don't think there's actual cheese. I don't think there's cheese in it. But you know what's not cheesy as well? ASUS
is actually auctioning for charity one of those 5090 Dhaba editions. All you
got to do is go check it out at the link in the video description. And that one
has an extra bonus. It's signed by the one and only Mr. Jensen Huang. Oh my.
Wearer of leather jackets. Oh my. Walking on stages. Yeah, many many
different types of things. He signed some stuff. If you guys enjoyed this
video, hey, maybe go check out the one from last year if you haven't seen it already.