WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.400 I just bought the world's bougiest GPU, an ASUS ROG Astral Dahab or Gold Edition, 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. 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, 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 00:00:24.720 --> 00:00:27.760 from where I did the deal to get my hands on this bad boy? 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 00:00:32.080 --> 00:00:38.000 this incredible machine. Well this time I'm back and the stakes are even higher because 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. 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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, 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 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 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 00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:43.120 quotes pick the middle, they got to convince me. Okay these guys build some cool stuff. 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? 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. 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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. 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 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. 00:03:32.720 --> 00:03:39.600 Now it's time to do my two favorite things. Eat Chef 78 spicy fried chicken 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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. 00:05:04.480 --> 00:05:08.800 Shop two sent an updated mock-up of the diorama it has like camels and stuff. 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. 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 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. 00:05:30.880 --> 00:05:35.360 Well they're not ready yet. Apparently expo issues due to having four sticks of memory. 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:38.480 I've never seen that before. If only there was some video they could have watched 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:19.440 done some of the coolest overclocking models over the years. Hybrid liquid and air water cooling. 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 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. 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. 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:40.880 Same bad time. Same bad channel. Bye. And when show is finally over which means 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. 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 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 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. 00:07:02.640 --> 00:07:06.800 Power supply box with extra cables. 1200 casual watts. Dancy. Plating them. 00:07:08.960 --> 00:07:13.440 Extra hardware. Always love to see system integrators include that. One tube. 00:07:13.440 --> 00:07:21.040 Water cooling and me. By Luke Lefrenier. An extra sleeve extension and some extra cable 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 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. 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:36.880 Oh it's water cooled. Also it's apparently extremely fragile. Oh. Oh speaking of which. 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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. 00:08:17.200 --> 00:08:25.440 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Oh it looks so good already. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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. 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:20.400 It's pretty good though. You guys ready? Big moment. Big reveal. Oh my god. 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 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. 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:42.720 They blew it away. They really did. This is fantastic. They completely understood the assignment. 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 00:09:49.440 --> 00:09:54.560 really aren't that many components that actually theme match this graphics card. But other than 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, 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. 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. 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 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 00:10:22.800 --> 00:10:27.680 performance and compatibility. Let's see what they managed with custom timings. Time for this 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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. 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 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. 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. 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 00:13:49.200 --> 00:13:53.040 right like whatever right because we have a 50 90 that is gold. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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. 00:16:11.680 --> 00:16:15.120 $360,000 NTD. $12,000 US. 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. 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. 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. 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 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 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 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 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? 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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. 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.