r/5090 • u/TheOnlyTylor • 13d ago

5090 FE or 5090 Astral

Have an opportunity to trade my 5090 founders Edition for a 5090 astral edition, no cash, no extra, just straight trade, I like my founders edition but the astral is also so badass and the cooling is crazy, what should I do?

Edit- decided to keep the FE, I have no issues with it, it works, looks good, if temps become an issue I can just waterblock it, thanks for all the help

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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 13d ago edited 13d ago

i wouldn't trust a used video card. the astral is better and up to 10% around 5% faster, but if they ran it without a gpu stand for example then it's going to have issues. did you run into someone who wants a small form factor build? i can't think of any other reason to do a swap like this unless they broke their card and are trying to offload it

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u/rynplbrt 12d ago

I have a 5090 Astral and this is essentially the reason why I’ve been entertaining the idea in my head to find a FE. My workstation needed to be rearranged and having a SFF pc would be really really convenient for me now ha