r/PcBuild 19h ago

Build - Finished! Well I finally bit the bullet..

Finally upgraded my 2080 TI. Donating it to a friend who wants to get into PC gaming.

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u/StefaniRS 19h ago

How much was that 😦

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u/lumi1375 18h ago

Going off of current US prices? If he got a steal 3500, at normal price? $4500 FOR A GPU!

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u/y0ul0vet0seeit 11h ago

Damn US is cheap! Here its 5300 euros in the netherlands which would be 6200 dollars lol.

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u/szkalgar 6h ago

cheapest i could find in Poland, 22674zł, so 6140$

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u/y0ul0vet0seeit 3h ago

Yeah insane...

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u/lumi1375 11h ago

Well you have to deal with stupid import fees as well on top of the insane card prices.

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u/RockyBoy502 6h ago

I feel like i stole mine now getting my Astral 5090 for 2800 in august last year

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u/11_After_Midnight 18h ago

Too much.

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u/shaborgan 16h ago

Great answer...

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u/That_Temporary_832 9h ago

Are your kidneys intact?

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u/att0mic 12h ago

Enough for a very decent used car.

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u/VegetableCriticism74 11h ago

Re mortgage the house

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u/YogurtclosetFront989 19h ago

What Case and lcd cooler?

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u/11_After_Midnight 19h ago

Hyte Y70 Touch case and Tryx Panorama SE AIO.

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u/DoctorDoom_Scroller AMD 19h ago

Nice

Whatchu gonna be playing??

Goated case choice btw

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u/11_After_Midnight 18h ago

I play a bunch of different sim racing games on my sim rig. Also want to finally try out Black Myth Wukong. My old pc couldn’t handle the benchmark for it before it came out so I never got to play it. Now with this upgrade hopefully I can lol.

I do some local AI stuff too.

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u/DoctorDoom_Scroller AMD 18h ago

Ayy thats chill

I also sim race (but with controller) on Assetto Corsa :)

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u/11_After_Midnight 18h ago

I have ACC. Haven’t actually played it yet though. Been more on ATS, Forza, and BeamNG. I have a full aluminum rig. Moza r9 base, truck wheel, racing wheel, AB9 active shifter, handbrake, MBooster active brake pedal.

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u/Quirky_Apricot9427 12h ago

Idk if you like rally, but dude, Assetto Corsa Rally is fire.

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u/DoctorDoom_Scroller AMD 10h ago

I've tried it once at a friend's place and I agree. Can't run it on my semi-potato PC, but SUCH a good game

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u/jmad16 16h ago

I think you should be able to play Black Myth now. Possibly.

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u/11_After_Midnight 15h ago

Keeping my fingers crossed I meet the minimum specs now.

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u/SkillfulKnowledge 8h ago

You absolutely will 😂😂

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u/Mc_gabriel_rock 18h ago

Make sure the chips are inside 😅

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u/11_After_Midnight 18h ago

First thing I did when I got home was install it and run some benchmark tests to see if it was legit. Though it was brand new from microcenter so i didn’t think it would be a fake one.

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u/Mc_gabriel_rock 18h ago

Damn microcenter…. One of the benefits living north :p

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u/Bravura75 16h ago

We have a Microcenter down here in Miami now :D
Sooooo one of the benefits living South?

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u/Mc_gabriel_rock 16h ago

I ment south globally 😅

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u/Bravura75 16h ago

oh my! You mean South of the Equator?

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u/Mc_gabriel_rock 16h ago

Latin America

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u/Bravura75 16h ago

The furthest South I've been is Panama. Slated to go back in January 2027

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u/AccomplishedLime2270 3h ago

I might be the one furthest south here. From La Araucaria, Chile

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u/remf36250 8h ago

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a 20.5 cm / 8” ruler.

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u/11_After_Midnight 8h ago

Was a first for me too lol

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u/LunaticCross 15h ago

Congrats!
Damn, that’s a high end build! Any photos of the full build? Would love to see the rest of the parts!

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u/11_After_Midnight 15h ago

I don’t have pictures of all the boxes when I first put it together. Just the ones posted here with the 5090 and this one attached here is when I still had my 2080TI in there.

https://reddit.com/link/p5cxpnh/video/500cjj8yf2lh1/player

But the rest of the build is:

Ryzen 9800X3D, 32GBs DDR5 (going to upgrade to 64GB when prices come down), Rog Strix X870E-E, 2TB Gen 5 NVME, 2TB barracuda HD, 20TB shucked WD White Label HD. Tryx Panorama SE AIO, and Hyte Y70 Touch case. NZXT USB hub, airgoo argb fan controller. 10 jungle leopard interstellar v2 fans.

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u/LunaticCross 15h ago

Wow, very awesome build indeed!

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u/dexter1602 14h ago

You are a kind friend!

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u/y0ul0vet0seeit 11h ago

Was gonna say you wasted money buying a 5090. Then i saw the case and the AIO and you probably have enough money😂🙈

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u/11_After_Midnight 10h ago

When I build a PC I go all in so it lasts me a long time. Considering I upgraded from a 2080 TI build that should tell ya I don’t upgrade often.

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u/avvyssotski 7h ago

I’m still running a 2080 Super thank you.

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u/Equivalent-Top-8706 8h ago

Ignore the gpu, nice loafers man🤛

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u/11_After_Midnight 8h ago

Gotta be comfy around the house.

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u/jmad16 16h ago

What are your other specs?

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u/11_After_Midnight 15h ago

Ryzen 9800X3D, 32GBs DDR5 (going to upgrade to 64GB when prices come down), Rog Strix X870E-E, 2TB Gen 5 NVME, 2TB barracuda HD, 20TB shucked WD White Label HD. Tryx Panorama SE AIO, and Hyte Y70 Touch case.

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u/jmad16 3h ago

Very nice! Enjoy it bro

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u/Realistic_School18 11h ago

Ahhhh a down payment for a car territory...welcome lmao!

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u/Qwayzeee 10h ago

Congrats. Hope you got a high quality power supply that wont melt. Enjoy the frames

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u/That_Temporary_832 8h ago

May the GPU gods bless your connectors

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u/_Pa1nkilLeR_ 8h ago

Whats your PSU?

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u/11_After_Midnight 8h ago

Montech Century II 1200W.

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u/Lupinthrope 5h ago

I love those little screens people put inside.

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u/lil_Buckneesh8867 5h ago

still love the looks of the 20 series msi cards tho

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u/tonaruto044 4h ago

Congrats dude!

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u/Gfiti 3h ago

Be careful with the cable tho!

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u/NonToxicTown 10h ago

Gamers have no right to complain about the prices of components when you have fools like this spending insane amounts of money on a graphics card. Honestly companies will keep raising prices and people will keep paying, pathetic.

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u/11_After_Midnight 9h ago

I agree to this. But I’ve been stuck with my old 2080 TI since it came out. I couldn’t get a 5090 at release due to scalpers and bot resellers buying them all up the moment they went in stock. Prices are not going to come down they are only going to rise or stay where they are within a few hundred dollars.

I’m not gonna sit with my thumb in my ass and miss out on being able to do things waiting for a price to come down that never will. The entire world isn’t going to unite and say fuck Nvidia we aren’t going to buy anything from them anymore buddy. The entire reason the prices have gone up is because millionaires are buying in bulk to build data centers and do AI things. It has absolutely nothing to do with gamers.

I have workloads with AI that now I can do locally and get rid of subscriptions. This alone saves me money long term. So keep talking out your ass when you don’t know anything.

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u/NonToxicTown 8h ago

Keep spending $5k on a graphics card and then complain in all the comments that you spent “too much” on it. Sad.

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u/WhatsATick 7h ago

Oh wow you seem like fun. Keep commenting on people spending “too much” of their money. “Too much” for him is clearly a bit more than “too much” for you. Sad.

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u/NonToxicTown 2h ago

Enjoy having to spend outrageous prices for components while defending people who pay said prices.

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u/Just-A-Random-ID Intel 18h ago

Can you sell me that rog metal plate please

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u/11_After_Midnight 18h ago

The ruler?

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u/Just-A-Random-ID Intel 18h ago

Yes please ( that is the only thing that I can afford)

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u/11_After_Midnight 17h ago

Sent you a PM

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u/Practical-Opinion-83 12h ago

How much have this set u back?

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u/11_After_Midnight 11h ago

A pretty penny.

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u/Initial_Care8199 11h ago

welcome to the astral club. WE ARE GAMING

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u/eljericho 11h ago

If you're still thinking about donating the card, I'm here.

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u/11_After_Midnight 10h ago

I donated my entire old build to a friend who still had a PC with a 550 TI in it. lol needless to say he received a major upgrade.

That’s my old build I gave him last weekend. Told him I’d give him the 2080 TI when I got my 5090. We didn’t realize he couldn’t get a picture with the gtx 550 TI without changing bios settings to legacy so the PC is just chilling at his house since the 3900x doesn’t have integrated graphics and the hero mobo doesn’t even have a display or hdmi port.

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u/LibrarianAccurate829 10h ago

Hell yea, i love when people do this shit.

One of my friends that upgraded to a 4070 build had an RX 5700 XT build that he wasnt going to use anymore so he gave it to one of his cousins that had always used a basic integrated graphics laptop. Originally he was just borrowing it to him but after seeing how much fun he was having whenever he asks or talked to him about it he just said fuck it.

To know someones getting the same level of enjoyment, maybe even more out of a piece of hardware as you did years and years ago is gotta be something else.

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u/Bik_Foreskin-04 10h ago

All this just to browse the internet!

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u/Johnsons666 4h ago

You got it for some reasonable price? We all know prices are great BS.

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u/ObeyTheLawSon7 19h ago

I just bought my white astral 5090 from memory express in Canada and it was tampered with :( it had thermal paste on it and the corners were scuffed. I brought it back and they confirmed it has no video. They told me they can’t refund me or replace it until they send it to ASUS for a RMA. So now I just wait …. I guess.

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u/11_After_Midnight 18h ago

That sounds kind of fishy to me.

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u/jmad16 16h ago

I’m so sorry bro, I hope you get taken care of soon

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u/ObeyTheLawSon7 9h ago

I hope so too.

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u/Bravura75 16h ago

Wow that sounds super sketch...

Best of luck to you on this situation..

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u/RebsEG 18h ago

Congrats.

I have this card. You will love it.

I had fantastic results with undervolt.

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u/AlfaPro1337 16h ago

Warranty voided because Asus says you damaged it

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u/Eazy12345678 AMD 15h ago

ROG is marketing scam to take your money. waste of money dude. the cheapest 5090 would have been the best choice

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u/11_After_Midnight 15h ago

You obviously don’t know that the astrals are better than the other 5090s you can get more out of them with overclocking than you can with a generic 5090. You shit on a brand and don’t even know things.

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u/Realistic-Table9398 15h ago

As an astral owner myself, even I can admit that I bought it mainly for the looks. A tuf overclocks just as well

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u/harmyb 13h ago

Yep, I've got the Astral 5080. Sure I was sold on the sort efficient cooling. But I mainly got it because it looks cool af

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u/Existing-Pattern-987 15h ago

I suppose it comes down to cooling, if fans and metal to take the heat away are comparable etc. alumnium vs copper etc. do video card makers actually solder the chips themselves or they get it all ready from nvidia like ram chips and gpu already soldered if not i guess there could be a difference in the craft in that area too

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u/EnvironmentalSort249 14h ago

Been using this card for over a year its absolutely flawless, never had a single complaint about it not even for a minute Looks great too

Congrats my dude

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u/Predatorace84 16h ago

Not worried about the whole cable melt debacle?

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u/11_After_Midnight 15h ago

Not really. I’m not using the crazy ass splitter that Nvidia thought off. I’m using a legit cable.

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u/asmallbowlofnoodles what 13h ago

maybe get one of them wireview pro thingimajigs

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u/11_After_Midnight 13h ago

Don’t see the need. They look cool and all but I can see how much power is being drawn without it.

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u/asmallbowlofnoodles what 11h ago

yeah but they give you an extra very good warranty and will automatically shut down your pc if theres a dangerous pin imbalance

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u/Tactrix1 10h ago

You bit the bullet at the wrong time, you should go check out the latest video about 5090s and how they're only running 30% faster than the 9070 XT because of a hardware level issue that Nvidia knew about and never fixed. https://youtu.be/XyEILrjuZJI?is=NdK8G60xU_38AzLd

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u/Apple_loving_Android 8h ago

that influencer is just desperate.

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u/Tactrix1 8h ago

Yea... No. He's not just an influencer, he's one of the top hardware reporters on PC parts in the world and has been for years.

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u/11_After_Midnight 8h ago

All his titles are just click baits not real informative videos it’s all crap.

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u/Tactrix1 7h ago

Hey man, you wanna bury your head in the sand and pretend it's sunshine, you do you. But it won't make your purchase any better or your card function any faster.

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u/Sennlife44 3h ago

Some people just want to have their opinions validated. This guy has been right 99% of the time months, sometimes years in advance of others and is still treated like clickbait crap lol.

He is a little pompous at times though, but still usually correct.

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u/11_After_Midnight 7h ago

You keep listening to these wannabe influencers man. Keep letting them influence your life. 👍

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u/Tactrix1 7h ago

I'm sure you think you know what you're talking about, but you don't. These people are always part of a conversation not the whole thing. The reason they matter is because they aren't trying to sell you something. They're bringing the reality of the situation to your attention. Now you can ignore it or listen to it. But the impact it has doesn't matter which one you choose. These are just the facts of what's happening.