No less than 5 kilograms of gold were used to design this extraordinary board.
For several years now, users - gamers in particular - have been complaining about the inflation affecting PC components. This inflation affects two categories in particular: motherboards on the one hand, and graphics cards on the other. It's to talk about this second category and a very special model that we're writing this news post. Indeed, ASUS seems to have seen fit to offer a new variant of its top-of-the-range range, which was already well-stocked with three GeForce RTX 5090 models: the TUF Gaming RTX 5090, the ROG Astral RTX 5090 and the ROG Astral LC RTX 5090 featuring a water cooling system.
No, it's not even beautiful! ASUS
However, it's not on this third model that ASUS has decided to base this fourth variant, called the ROG Astral RTX 5090 Gold Edition, which takes the heatsink - with its four integrated fans - from the Astral "just" and changes the entire fairing. We mentioned it in the title, and the name of the card obviously points the way: it's quite simply a gold fairing that has been used by ASUS. No less than 5 kilograms of gold for a graphics card that, all in all, weighs just over 7 kilograms. In other words, a heavyweight model, unheard of in the graphics card world.
It's also unheard of for the price of this card, which, as you'd expect, will never actually make it into the ASUS catalog. The Taiwanese brand has only produced one ROG Astral RTX 5090 Gold Edition... and we don't really know why, other than to make people talk about it. And it works, since we're talking about it. For the rest, the card is an RTX 5090 model "like any other", and we only hope that if ASUS has the idea of selling this card, the profits will go to a good cause - unless, of course, the precious metal is subsequently re-melted?
