discussion Thermal Grizzly waterblock for Asus RTX 5090 Astral

[moocow]

If you can afford a RTX 5090, what's another $600 USD?

Thermal Grizzly launches ASUS RTX 5090 GPU waterblock, costs more than RTX 5070 graphics card - VideoCardz.com

Thermal Grizzly with first GPU waterblock at $585 price tag I’m not entirely sure who these water blocks are for, given that Thermal Grizzly chose the most expensive mass-produced RTX 5090 on the market: ASUS ROG Astral. The price is the key detail here: $584.88 including VAT. That’s more than...

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[Izerous]

If you can afford a RTX 5090, what's another $600 USD?

Thermal Grizzly launches ASUS RTX 5090 GPU waterblock, costs more than RTX 5070 graphics card - VideoCardz.com

Thermal Grizzly with first GPU waterblock at $585 price tag I’m not entirely sure who these water blocks are for, given that Thermal Grizzly chose the most expensive mass-produced RTX 5090 on the market: ASUS ROG Astral. The price is the key detail here: $584.88 including VAT. That’s more than...

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Waterblock prices have 2-3x over the past 8 years or so

 

[moocow]

Well having it made in Germany certainly add a bit of cost to the product. From the looks of the block, it got really good coverage over the components. Also, now that the EK's product lead or whatever his title was, works for TG, I think it should perform pretty well, just that I can't see myself dropping that much money on a hobby these days when the card + block = 2 months or more on a Mazda CX5 lease?

 

[Jokester]

Waterblock prices have 2-3x over the past 8 years or so

it's actually getting ridiculous. And many brands seem to just jack their prices up with everyone else regardless of if they have the same quality *cough* EKWB.

Its great to see the block make it to market. the price sucks and its for the most ridiculous gpu on the market. Maybe that was the point. make a gpu for people who don't care about spending money

You could get a cheaper 5090 and watercool block for significantly less.

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[Izerous]

EKWB was never on my list for quality waterblocks ... Complained about them before for poor quality control making the fall out not that big of a surprise. There were always better options out there however a lot of those companies just didn't have the same market presence

 

[Jokester]

Watercool and Aquacomputers have always made good waterblocks.
Unfortunately, the main guy that was designing AC gpu blocks was also stolen by Thermal Grizzly lol
So we probably won't see them produce any new ones for awhile.

 

[Marzipan]

it's a niche collectors item for a niche collectors GPU. they probably will sell out easily

 

[JD]

ASUS should just sell the Astral with this block, or without the heatsink for ~$600 less lol

Past 2 generations now (2080Ti, 4080), I've just bought pre-blocked cards. A Zotac and a Gigabyte. Hopefully those continue to exist as it feels like the only affordable way of doing it these days.

If we look back to how we started with water cooling our PCs, is all this fancy manufacturing, tight tolerances, polished this and that, really making a tangible difference? It's just somehow turned into a "luxury" item and the prices reflect that. I don't feel like performance has really changed in the past decade.

 

[Jokester]

The cooling performance has marginal gains. But it doesnt do much for actual performance gains, especially since overclocking is somewhat dead. Everything is built to boost pretty high already.

For me its about noise and aesthetics. My fans dont ramp up and down. Everything just sits at a low rpm constant.

But the way prices have been going... im not sure if ill do another big build anytime soon. Takes the fun out of it when gpus are $2000 and the blocks are $400-600.