1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,400 I just bought the world's bougiest GPU, an ASUS ROG Astral Dahab or Gold Edition, 2 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:12,480 an $8,000 RTX 5090 with six and a half grams of 24 carat gold on it. 3 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:18,480 But where could I possibly get a gaming PC? A throne, if you will, that's worthy of this, 4 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:24,720 Sultan of GPUs. How about the awesome Taipei tech mall that happens to be just a few blocks 5 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:27,760 from where I did the deal to get my hands on this bad boy? 6 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:32,080 You may remember Guanghua Digital Plaza from the last time that I visited and walked out with 7 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:38,000 this incredible machine. Well this time I'm back and the stakes are even higher because 8 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:43,920 I'm not planning to give this PC away to the first LTT fan I see, this time it's personal. 9 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:49,520 So sponsored by ASUS who wanted in on the action, I'm going to be searching for the builder that I 10 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:55,760 can trust to do it justice in terms of performance and aesthetics and because I'm spending my own 11 00:00:55,760 --> 00:01:00,960 money I'm also looking for a decent deal. Step one is to look for my candidate builders. 12 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:05,200 I'm going to be asking them to send me a price and perhaps more importantly I'm going to be asking 13 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:09,360 them to send me a portfolio because these are small shops and they don't have the room to show 14 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:14,640 off all their capabilities right on the show floor. Like look at this place, they got a pile of GPUs 15 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:19,520 in the back of them that's as tall as Taipei 101. Of course I don't need a GPU, I already have that, 16 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:26,640 I need everything else. Do you do custom PC builds? I have the coolest GPU on earth this one 17 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:32,960 and I'm looking to do a build that is worthy of it. I don't want to waste money because I already 18 00:01:32,960 --> 00:01:37,840 waste enough money. It has gold on it right? And this ain't going to be no just like get three 19 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:43,120 quotes pick the middle, they got to convince me. Okay these guys build some cool stuff. 20 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:48,160 Can I pick up a system by Friday? Friday? Oh it's okay, it's okay. Isn't that wild dude? 21 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:54,480 Top of the line gaming system? Oh you want it fast? Oh Friday, easy. That's in like four days. 22 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:59,760 Can you send me a quote? We're going to ask maybe three shops and then we're going to pick the one 23 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:07,520 that is going to do the build. Oh these guys have my attention. That is a cool build, curved 24 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:12,640 hardline water cooling. I mean Andy I'm sure you know what card this is but it seems cool. 25 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:20,960 Okay there you go. English? Yes. Yes I got the coolest GPU. Oh you got this. Yeah I need the 26 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:27,200 rest of the system. I want it to be a good spec but not wasteful. Now I asked three builders for 27 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:33,200 quotes here in the mall. I will only choose one. Basically I need a good quotation for the parts 28 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:40,160 and then most importantly I want a really cool concept for the case and the style and the cooling 29 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:46,560 to match the GPU. I want your concept, your art. Okay I will discuss with my engineer and see how 30 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:52,800 to do it. Of course it would feel wrong if we didn't give the OG a crack at building our throne. 31 00:02:52,800 --> 00:03:00,320 Hey man! Hi! How you doing? This time I'm not filming in secret. Okay. I have a new assignment 32 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:06,400 for you should you choose to accept it. I got my hands on a very special GPU and I'm asking three 33 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:11,840 shops. I want a quote. I want them to send me examples of what they think are their best builds 34 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:18,880 they've done that they think would be worthy as a throne for this GPU to sit on. I need it by Friday. 35 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:28,560 Again? I'll try my best. But he's got to beat out the other two competitors. Okay. Okay. All right 36 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:32,400 good to see you man. Me too. Somehow I feel like he's gonna have a shot at it. 37 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:39,600 Now it's time to do my two favorite things. Eat Chef 78 spicy fried chicken 38 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:46,880 and reviewing PC builder quotes. So just as a refresher we've got the quote from the OG. We 39 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:51,520 know he has what it takes but he's pretty busy. How bad does he want another commissioned builder 40 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:56,480 right now? Builder number two up on the sixth floor clearly has the skills and the artistry. 41 00:03:56,480 --> 00:04:01,440 But is there pricing any good? And finally on the bottom floor lots of showcase PCs but 42 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:09,280 do they have a concept for me? Dude this is so hard to pick. We're anywhere from three to $4,000 43 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:16,080 but all the specs are very different and none of them are wrong. My OG buddies got the 16 core 44 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:22,800 processor tried in Z5 Royal memory not to mention a four terabyte SSD and a surprise in the water 45 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:28,480 cooling. That's enticing. But then builder two on the sixth floor. Okay we only get the eight core 46 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:34,880 processor but realistically that's probably all we need and I'm apparently getting a $1,300 custom 47 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:42,560 cooling loop with a custom gold paint job and like some kind of like diorama on the bottom floor. I 48 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:47,760 think really leaned into the bang for the buck. Like that's a pretty good value other than maybe 49 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:52,720 the motherboard and the cooler are a little bit out of line with the rest of it. And then the other 50 00:04:53,680 --> 00:05:01,200 not as affordable closer to $4,000. How do I pick? No matter who I go with I'm gonna feel so bad. 51 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:08,800 Shop two sent an updated mock-up of the diorama it has like camels and stuff. 52 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:16,320 But the case from the OG it puts the GPU like right front and center and it has a better spec. 53 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:23,200 I want to know what $1,800 of custom cooling and theme design and modification gets me 54 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:30,080 here in the tech mall. Let's go with builder two. Come on Andy. Time for the pickup. Let's go. 55 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:35,360 Well they're not ready yet. Apparently expo issues due to having four sticks of memory. 56 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:38,480 I've never seen that before. If only there was some video they could have watched 57 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:43,520 where they could have seen this coming. Front panel will be in the top. It will fall if you 58 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:49,120 put like a normal way to carry. Okay okay okay thank you. He just explained to me that if I tip the 59 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:54,000 box on the way to the hotel it will destroy the system. It will fall apart. Okay. How the hell 60 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:59,440 am I gonna get it home? Oh get it home. Get a home home. Yeah. I thought you meant like to the hotel. 61 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:04,480 No that's fine. Oh god. I might have to give it away after all. Time to find out if there's 62 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:08,640 any conceivable way that I can transport this. Oh and I guess this is as good a time as any 63 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:14,160 to mention that ASUS is celebrating 30 years of GPUs. 30 years of bangers I might add. They've 64 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:19,440 done some of the coolest overclocking models over the years. Hybrid liquid and air water cooling. 65 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:24,400 Fully water blocked ones. They were one of the earliest to do the massive PCBs and coolers that 66 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:29,840 have become so popular now. For better or for worse. Coming live to you from the Taiwan show. 67 00:06:29,840 --> 00:06:34,560 Now he wants it. It's funny. You're gross. And I guess we'll see you again next week. 68 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:40,880 Same bad time. Same bad channel. Bye. And when show is finally over which means 69 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:46,320 it's time. Luke you're coming into this a little cold but I thought you'd enjoy this. 70 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:52,800 We will be unboxing a 12,000 US dollar computer from the tech mall from last year. And to give 71 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:57,120 you some idea of what we're coming up against that is a fill bottle. For some reason that's in 72 00:06:57,120 --> 00:07:02,640 my accessory package. Okay. We've got a box for a water cooling reservoir. That makes sense. Yep. 73 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:06,800 Power supply box with extra cables. 1200 casual watts. Dancy. Plating them. 74 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:13,440 Extra hardware. Always love to see system integrators include that. One tube. 75 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:21,040 Water cooling and me. By Luke Lefrenier. An extra sleeve extension and some extra cable 76 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:26,640 combs. Hold on. You can't do that. That's right. Okay. We were given specific instructions that 77 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:31,920 the correct way to open this is to slice open the bottom and then lift the box off the top. 78 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:36,880 Oh it's water cooled. Also it's apparently extremely fragile. Oh. Oh speaking of which. 79 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:41,840 Wait what? There's some extra figures. These appear to be hand painted. At least the ones that are 80 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:46,080 painted. How are you gonna get this home? I think it's PC giveaway to electric boogaloo. 81 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:51,760 But first we need to see how they did. Yeah. That means I don't really want to slice open 82 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:55,600 the bottom of the case. Oh. Because I need to carry it around and give it to someone. I don't 83 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:59,760 got no packing tape. Okay. So are we gonna try to lift out of the top then? I'm not actually 84 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:04,720 familiar with the case manufacturer Dark Flash. Never heard of them. If I didn't have a diorama 85 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:09,040 in my computer this foam could probably help it survive the trip. Oh god. Okay. Well I can see 86 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:17,200 why they want us to. Here. How about this? I've got the box. I'm worried the. I get this. 87 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:25,440 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Oh it looks so good already. 88 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:32,960 I could barely even see in there. That looks awesome. This was their initial pitch and I was 89 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:39,680 going to go with the OG and then while I was deciding they sent an updated pitch and I was like 90 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:48,720 yo. Do that one. We got to see what they cook. Wow. Dude. I wonder what on here is custom 91 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:53,920 and what was just already default on the case. I can tell you this GPU mount probably wasn't part 92 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:59,280 of the case. Yeah. Yeah. It doesn't look like it. But you can get at two to three of the display 93 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:05,040 port ports which ought to be enough for anyone. Oh my. Oh you're already looking. You can kind of 94 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:09,200 see it through back here. Oh dude. One of them must be like a model train enthusiast or something 95 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:15,360 or like a tabletop gamer. Is this case available in gold? I don't think so. I think they did this. 96 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:20,400 It's pretty good though. You guys ready? Big moment. Big reveal. Oh my god. 97 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:28,720 What? They've got an oil ring. Oh it actually looks like. It's the color of oil. Yeah. That's 98 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:37,200 actually kind of sick. That is awesome. Oh the cable combs look awesome. Oh the RAM looks fantastic. 99 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:42,720 They blew it away. They really did. This is fantastic. They completely understood the assignment. 100 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:49,440 The tubing runs are great. Immaculate. Look at this tube. Yeah. You know I was thinking there 101 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:54,560 really aren't that many components that actually theme match this graphics card. But other than 102 00:09:54,560 --> 00:10:00,080 painting the case I think this is off the shelf stuff and they just nailed it. The Trident Royals, 103 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:06,640 the cable combs, the like oil looking water cooling fluid. The sand. The sand was an incredible touch. 104 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:10,800 Now there was one drama as they were creating the case. They were having trouble getting it stable. 105 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:15,120 I don't know if it's like a cultural thing because this is now two systems in a row from 106 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:22,800 the tech mall. They like filling all four memory slots and on AMD that's not a great idea for 107 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:27,680 performance and compatibility. Let's see what they managed with custom timings. Time for this 108 00:10:27,680 --> 00:10:36,880 computer to become as turned on as I am. Hey. Oh. You can't plug that in. Let's take you to mine. 109 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:43,840 Wait. Oh I mean it'll work. Yeah you could use the power of the GPU through the onboard port. 110 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:48,880 Just makes me want to cry. It looks so wrong. And it loses a little bit of performance. Yeah. 111 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:59,440 Do you have a keyboard? What? Didn't we have one secured? No. I said I have a mouse and a mouse pad. 112 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:03,680 I mean controller time. Are we firing this thing up? Sure. You want to do the honors? Yeah. 113 00:11:03,680 --> 00:11:11,840 Yeah. Woohoo buddy. Would you leave it on full RGB like this? Yeah I'm tacky like that. 114 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:16,800 Okay. No bloat that I can see. Well I mean other than the usable. These antenna quick 115 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:20,960 connects are cool. I haven't actually seen these yet. And the IO on this motherboard is flipping 116 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:26,160 wild. Oh wow it's nice. It's not cheap but it has onboard two and a half gig, onboard five gig 117 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:33,360 networking. It has two 40 gig USB-C ports along with the two 10 gig USB-C ports. A bunch more USB 118 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:38,400 like this is an out of this world motherboard which is good because it's like six or seven 119 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:43,760 hundred dollars. I don't love that they seem to have all the fans just at max speed. I guess from 120 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:50,320 a performance standpoint. Oh they don't. I thought they just had everything as a flip and exhaust 121 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:55,120 but nope these are reverse blade fans. They're intakes. All right that's really nice to see. 122 00:11:55,120 --> 00:12:01,920 What about this one? Okay so we got two intakes for exhausts which means things aren't going to be 123 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:07,680 that balanced but also three of those exhausts are through a radiator so. They're a decently thick 124 00:12:07,680 --> 00:12:14,560 one. It shouldn't be too too far off and I guess to maybe their credit then the intakes are running 125 00:12:14,560 --> 00:12:18,800 at full speed so maybe that was intentional. We haven't looked at the cable management at the back. 126 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:25,120 I got so distracted by the shiny I just completely stopped caring. Sure oh there we go okay I mean 127 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:30,080 it looks nice and clearly they painted even in areas that you wouldn't necessarily expect to see. 128 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:39,920 Do you have a screwdriver? Always. lttstore.com. Nice. Oh yeah inside of this is painted as well. 129 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:46,640 This looks really nice. Okay and it's fine but to be completely honest it was totally covered by 130 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:50,080 this whole thing so it doesn't really matter. While we're waiting for my games to finish 131 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:54,560 transferring why don't we have a look at what memory speed they ended up getting it running at. 132 00:12:54,560 --> 00:13:04,400 6,000 megatransters per second but what did it cost us? Ah timings. So this is supposed to be a CL 133 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:14,000 28 kit. We're running at CL 36. Not the choice I personally would have made. If you must have 134 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:18,800 all four things populated and you want the best performance there are dummy modules that you can 135 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:23,040 put in. I just think they probably didn't want to do that because then they would have had to use 136 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:28,560 different memory. I don't believe G-Skill makes dummy modules for their royal and this was obviously 137 00:13:28,560 --> 00:13:34,000 the correct memory for this build obviously. This is it Luke. It's time to go. The Sultan 138 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:43,200 of Gaming PCs and I'm on a controller. And plugged into the motherboard which still pains me. We're 139 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:49,200 at 4k ray traced ultra getting a casual you know 150 frames per second you know just like whatever 140 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:53,040 right like whatever right because we have a 50 90 that is gold. 141 00:13:54,960 --> 00:14:00,400 It adds a little bit of performance. Dude the game looks great so it does. Can confirm if you spend 142 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:05,120 eight thousand dollars on a golden graphics card I can tell you two things about yourself. One 143 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:11,360 you're pretty bad with your money. That's really real real stupid buddy. And then number two is 144 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:18,400 your playing cyberpunk at 100 plus FPS. So you got both of those things going for you. It's time 145 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:24,160 I still kind of can't believe we're giving away a 12,000 dollar computer. Yeah we need to settle on 146 00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:28,960 a plan. I had an idea that we put it in the box and then you like pretend you're struggling to move 147 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:33,360 it and the first person helps you just gets a 12,000 dollar computer. Why do all of your ideas 148 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:39,600 involve you being strong and me being weak. Oh my god it's so heavy. This is sponsored by ASUS 149 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:44,880 so it was pretty convenient for me that they happened to spec it with an ROG power supply 150 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:51,600 and like a top of the line ASUS motherboard to go with the GPU. Okay I'm just gonna take a little 151 00:14:51,600 --> 00:15:02,560 break. Can you join the video? Yeah. Yeah probably. Do you know who he is? Yeah yeah hi nice to meet 152 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:11,040 you. Are you traveling here? No no no. Here you can carry it. Oh my god. You got it careful careful 153 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:16,880 You okay? Okay okay. Okay do you think you could carry that for one minute? Yeah. Do you think you 154 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:22,400 could carry it for five minutes? No. Did you see what's in here? Do you play games? Yeah. What games 155 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:29,760 do you play? We will play CS 2 low but my computer is FPS 2 low. FPS 2 low? Yeah. I don't think that's 156 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:41,680 gonna be a problem anymore. This is the gold edition RTX 5090. 5090. Oh my god this is cool. And then we 157 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:52,480 have a Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Your challenge is you have to get it home. Congratulations. Oh my god thank 158 00:15:52,480 --> 00:16:11,680 you. Thank you. Do you know how much this costs? $5,000. The US you're doing? Yeah. 159 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:15,120 $360,000 NTD. $12,000 US. 160 00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:27,040 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. 161 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:33,200 So they did a special golden paint job to go with it and special golden fittings to match everything. 162 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:38,400 Well I'm just glad that we could be part of it. Enjoy your new computer man. 163 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:44,480 What game did you not get enough FPS in by the way? CS 2. Oh CS 2? Yeah. Oh so your computer is pretty 164 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:54,560 slow. Lower than FPS. That'll be no problem. Yeah you want to play CS 2? I think maybe more like 165 00:16:54,560 --> 00:17:05,520 500-600 FPS. Okay bye. Bye. The shell shocked look on his face when I said $12,000 US but he had 166 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:12,240 no idea how to process that. I was rooting for him because if someone else snagged it well he was like 167 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:16,560 that'd be brutal. He would have regretted that forever. Do you want to get some soup dumplings? 168 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:21,840 Sure. Let's do it. When you decided to stop there I was like this is his one shot. Yeah. He has to come 169 00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:24,880 now or else he's not going to do it. That on the street was busy. I think someone would have caught 170 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:30,800 us. Yeah. Well our soup dumpling place was closed but we have moji moji which is apparently mango 171 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:35,360 cheese tea. Yeah I don't think there's actual cheese. I don't think there's cheese in it. Yeah yeah. 172 00:17:35,360 --> 00:17:41,440 But you know what's not cheesy as well? ASUS is actually auctioning for charity one of those 5090 173 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:46,640 Dehab editions. All you got to do is go check it out at the link in the video description and that 174 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:52,160 one has an extra bonus. It's signed by the one and only Mr. Jensen Huang. Oh my. Wearer of leather 175 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:57,680 jackets. Oh my. Signer of things. Yeah he signs. Many different types of things. He signs some stuff. 176 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:02,240 If you guys enjoyed this video maybe go check out the one from last year if you haven't seen it already.