1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,720 Like any reasonable person, I found myself thinking, you know, the GeForce RTX 5090 is just too darn 2 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:13,120 affordable. Won't somebody please find a way to make it more expensive without adding any performance? 3 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:24,160 Oh, praise me! ASUS has answered my call! The ROG Astral 5090 Dehab Edition is exactly what it says 4 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:31,200 on the tin. A top-of-the-line RTX 5090 GPU, which is already going to run you $3,000 to $4,000 5 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:40,880 after scalper markup, but with 6.5 grams of .999 fineness gold and Arab-inspired motifs embedded 6 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:47,920 on its giant four-fan cooler. Well, you might say, maybe it's not that ridiculous. I mean, 7 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:52,960 gold seems like a perfectly cromulent investment in these turbulent times. How much more could it 8 00:00:52,960 --> 00:01:01,360 cost, Michael? $10? Oh no, my friends, for the approximately 675 US dollars worth of gold on 9 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:10,080 this thing, you will pay, or rather I should say, I have paid anywhere from about four to five 10 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:16,960 thousand dollars more for this hyper-exclusive piece of gaming bling. This thing better knock 11 00:01:16,960 --> 00:01:22,240 my socks off. After a word from the sucker who helped me pay for it. 12 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:39,200 The aptly named 5090 Dehab or Gold Edition is exclusive to the Middle Eastern North Africa region 13 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:45,280 and is meant to pay homage to the growing ROG customer base there. So how did I get my hands 14 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:52,000 on it? I'm in Canada. Well, okay, normally I am, but today I'm in Taiwan and after sending 15 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:57,200 a message to my incredulous ASUS contact saying that I wanted to buy one, they put me in touch 16 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:03,840 with a contact who hand-carried this from Saudi Arabia to the show floor for me to purchase. 17 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:10,960 The only question was, how do I get it safely off the show floor to unbox it? The retail prices 18 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:16,480 we've seen for this monster are anywhere from seven thousand to ten thousand US dollars. 19 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:23,680 I paid about eight thousand for mine, which feels completely unhinged, like surely this card is just 20 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:30,960 some kind of bizarre publicity stunt, right? Well, shockingly, it's not. While ASUS has never 21 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:36,640 publicly stated how many of these limited edition cards were made, they told me that it is apparently 22 00:02:36,640 --> 00:02:43,520 five hundred, which turns this science fair project into four million dollars of potential 23 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:49,520 revenue. That is a lot more than I expected. I guess in the first draft of the script before I 24 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:55,520 heard back from ASUS was anywhere from five to fifty, but I don't know, maybe I shouldn't be 25 00:02:55,520 --> 00:03:01,760 that surprised. It's not like this is that new. ASUS has done extreme limited run GPUs in the past. 26 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:07,760 The Mars 2, for instance, was a dual GPU overclocked card that had no power limit, 27 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:13,200 and they did about a thousand of those at fifteen hundred US dollars over ten years ago, 28 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:19,680 you know, before regular GPUs were fifteen hundred dollars. And the Middle Eastern market, 29 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:25,120 where this GPU is apparently selling quite well, is much bigger than it used to be. 30 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:30,080 Surely they can find five hundred rich gamers, then, to shell out for one. 31 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:34,800 Or four hundred and ninety-nine, since I've got one of them. Let's take a look. 32 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:39,120 Gotta give ASUS credit. They know how to present. 33 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:44,320 Ah, yes. Thank you. 34 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:49,920 How about thank you very much for this one, all right? 35 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:59,920 How to install. I dropped the one thing that mattered. Certificate of authenticity. 36 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:14,160 What is it? It's a fridge magnet. I don't know what I was expecting, but fridge magnet wasn't it? 37 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:21,040 Quad PCIe 2 12 volt 2 by 6 adapter and gold themed GPU support. 38 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:29,760 Oh, whoa, oh, oh, oh, it's magnetic. And it's got a little screwdriver on the end. 39 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:36,960 Finally, a thick boy cable tie and one of those adorable little PCB rulers. Gold themed, of course. 40 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:44,640 At this point, this probably feels like five play though. Let's hurry up and oh, oh, oh, oh, my. 41 00:04:50,320 --> 00:05:00,320 Oh, it stinks. What the heck? James, come here. Oh, whoa. You see? Got that good manufacturing 42 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:12,480 stank. Everything is gold! The attention to detail is like I don't think I've ever 43 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:18,620 seen from these guys before. Even the IO plate is painted gold. There are a few 44 00:05:18,620 --> 00:05:23,040 details that ASUS points out in their product story for this card that I have 45 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:30,440 to confess now that I have it in my hands I'm finding a little bit confusing. First of all they say that they chose the color gold to symbolize 46 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:37,000 its rarity, it's limited edition, and also because it's the color of sand which 47 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:45,320 is where the Middle East started in the desert. And then so that's the idea 48 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:49,400 behind this etched graphic that they have on the back where you've got buddy 49 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:55,800 with his camels and then something and then giant skyscrapers to show the 50 00:05:55,800 --> 00:06:01,160 progress in the region from the desert to the sky. The fan hubs are apparently 51 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:06,540 covered in ancient Arabic characters and apparently there's handwritten Arabic 52 00:06:06,540 --> 00:06:11,560 calligraphy somewhere that says unity courage and strength but I'm not sure 53 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:18,760 where it is. I don't read Arabic. One little detail they don't point out in the 54 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:23,360 product story is that there's coordinates on here. Hey James it's the 55 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:31,880 ASUS building in Taipei. As for why ASUS chose their astral design for the 56 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:36,440 Dehab Edition, well I think that's pretty obvious. It has their sick new vapor 57 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:40,640 chamber that has those recesses for heat pipes. It's got their dual fan blow-through 58 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:45,040 design on the back here, total of four fans, enhanced power delivery that made 59 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:49,920 it Slave's card of choice for extreme overclocking, and of course it looks sick. 60 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:55,440 All I need to do now is build a PC that is worthy of my new GPU. But wait a 61 00:06:55,440 --> 00:07:00,480 tick, it looks cool but we don't actually know if it works and I should 62 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:04,080 probably find a test bench before I leave the country with it. I have no idea 63 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:07,800 what my warranty coverage is gonna look like for some card that I obtained in 64 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:11,080 Asia but was intended for sale in the Middle East and I'm taking to North 65 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:15,920 America. Where am I gonna get a computer? Where better to find a system than the 66 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:24,640 G-Skill booth? I need to hook up way. Actually that's very nice but no not 67 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:31,080 that. I have a GPU. Can you get me a test bench where I can stress test it? 68 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:36,200 Of course. Okay where do you want to put it on? Where are you going with that? 69 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:44,560 Where are you going with that? Yeah why not that one? Why not? I mean this clearly 70 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:49,160 needs an upgrade. Yeah of course of course. I don't ask for much right? This is 71 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:56,080 sick. DDR5, Cam2. Nice! Nice! We found a new power supply from our friends over 72 00:07:56,080 --> 00:08:03,280 it. Don't worry it's fine it's all good. This is their Prime 1300 watt. 73 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:13,560 Here we go boys. Wait wait this is all wrong. Well I don't have any crystal 74 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:21,560 golden memory on there. Oh right yes. I love bugging these guys but I got to admit 75 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:27,360 it kind of gets me thinking. What kind of PC do you put a GPU like this in? Like 76 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:36,080 look it looks completely out of place in here. Hey there it is. That's more like 77 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:40,520 it. Try it in Z5 Royal Neo. Get this get this non-gold stuff out of here. 78 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:47,560 Disgusting. Okay there we go. I'll put it. I'm gonna put it there. Yeah! Oh yeah I 79 00:08:47,560 --> 00:08:53,680 never mentioned the IO. It has five ports. Two HDMI, three display ports. Neat. Hey it 80 00:08:53,680 --> 00:09:01,280 works! So far. Realistically G-skills favorite game is make RAM number go up 81 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:05,040 really high so I didn't expect them to have any actual game files but what they 82 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:12,960 do have is Furmark so we can go ahead and make sure this bad boy works. Hey fans 83 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:20,760 are spinning. 100% usage power 600 watts. It can't be 600 watts exactly can it? 84 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:26,040 They got to have hardware info on here. Oh yeah they do. According to 8 of 64 we 85 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:37,400 are at 598.67 watts 52.91 amps. Doesn't smell like burning. Definitely feels like 86 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:42,440 600 watts so it works which means the only question now is what do I do with 87 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:49,520 it? I could do an all-gold PC maybe. I could scalp it. Oh guys I'm kidding I'm 88 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:55,160 kidding but what I never cared about is our sponsor. If you guys enjoyed this 89 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:59,360 video why don't we throw back to that time I unboxed the Mars 2 one of their 90 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:03,800 previous weirdo limited edition GPUs.