The story of the charity and the fact that you don't put YT money in your own pocket but give back to people who really need it, is just so great and noble. Made me a bit emotional 😢
I think that ASUS was targeting a different buyer for the card - person who want to spend a lot for "the best", but without putting own effort into making it actually the best with custom loop. They are selling out of box experience, so to say.
@@der8auer-en remember when evga made kingpin cards with oem blocks? pepperidge farm remembers. RIP. hopefully the K|NGP|NY pny cards do the old cards justice.
That is the best 4090 matrix to exist, still keeping its look. Job well done! Edit; for the 5090 matrix/special edition card Asus should just collab with you, because it would be a monster gpu and make sense build-wise
Roman, Thank you for being such a noble-hearted person. I can already see in your eyes that when you give money to others, your heart rests with the feeling. I have to admit that when I saw the picture of the cancer patient, tears came to my eyes too. It is an honor to be a member and a part of your channel. This is how people should think of others and support them. You rock man!
With all the crappy stuff going on in the world, its nice to see some good happening. Good on you for stepping up and helping a child with cancer in need. The world needs more ppl like you.
Exactly, lots of people who have custom loops would happily spend a lot on a gorgeous card like that and having qdc's on the end would be amazing. They could still include an aio that could also come with qdc's so for people buying the card without a custom loop can still use it just fine.
Releasing that card as a custom block but also attached to a radiator would have been amazing. That acrylic terminal block would look good in black acrylic
The guys behind the stealth tubing, the modding cafe, have a video about converting it to hard tubed custom watercooling. At this price, it is a product for pc enthusiasts, therefore it should be the best possible version, they could come up with.
Yea I saw that. But they only changed to tubes to connectors. They kept everything of the original including the pump. Also didn't solve the nickel plating problem
"This Ferrari was nice but not perfect, so to fix it I disassembled it, designed a new engine block and sand cast it in my own foundry in Italy. After reassembling the car, it looks the same from the outside, but it is better 😑" - The German car enthusiast RU-vid @@der8auer-en channel in the other timeline... 😂😂😂
The window showing the chrome hard tubes looks fantastic. Great job. Maybe replacing those plastic "chrome" pieces at the back with some nickel plated aluminum fittings would work. No need for that chunky acrylic thing sticking out the back, but would still give you the threaded connectors.
It is not us that made the choice, you are the one that deserves the honours for helping those that are having a difficult life. Well done Sir, you are a great Man.
Thank you Roman for being down to earth kind of man. Good health to you and your dear ones! Also you should sell the custom matrix card for the children on auction.
@@der8auer-en I would buy a TG waterblock in a heartbeat. I just went direct die with TG stuff and everything fit and worked perfectly, unlike what I deal with when using EK nonsense
great video. takes me back over 20 yrs. building my own water jacket for my cerelon300A (got over 450 mhz out of it) and my geforce 256! those were the days! lan partys! good times!
The second i saw one of these gpus, i was so happy someone actually made a good-looking water block that isn't just either a black box or pure acrylic. It was only the next second that i got sad because that didn't happen. It's just an aio.
Damn I had this idea in my head for a while. This is the most beautiful gpu waterblock. Sadl I don't have skill or money to do this myself. Awesome work! I really hope that waterblock companies will start to create more stuff like this instead of generic gpu blocks that are really boring.
After he decided to go back to Germany I thought, " Hey kids, that's why you stay in school, then earn and always have, lots of money". Money saved is freedom.
I already have the mycro direct die (the first version sadly 😂) and yes, would absolutely LOVE a GPU block from Der8auer! Here’s to 50 series getting them!
@@Matt___B it does phenomenally well! I’ve got it on a 7950x and after some fine tunning hitting 39k points in R23 fully stable (I have gotten 41k points, but found some games would crash the system) and max temps of 75°-76°C. While gaming it’s around 50°C. I’m sure I could go in and do a better job with under volting each core, but I’m too impatient for that.
Great video, watched the whole thing from start to end. 1. Haters gonna hate - I'm sure you have access to pretty much all of the latest cards, who cares about a 4090. Thanks for donating that money. 2. Sick transformation! Asus doesn't care about longevity, they'll make a sick cards that works for the meanwhile, and in a few years of regular use that water pump will die and that card will become a brick, since it doesn't have any aftermarket watercooling parts. That's why I wouldn't puchase any card with a built-in AIO (an AMD equivalent would be the Sapphire Toxic - and Sapphire is a great company). Every video ends up with me thinking that I want to have a CNC machine at home
I heard 43c hot spot after the customization and went, “wait a minute… it got worse?!” Then looked and saw there was no water solution, and you went on to say it was just from the copper block. Impressive stuff.
Meanwhile i have custom looped the legendary GTX 1060 in a sleeper case, b450 motherboard and CPU too. It was my first proper GPU as an upgrade from a Geforce 5 FX 5200 and the temperatures for an old Thermacore 120mm AIO from 2008 are astonishing, Much like the temperatures you saw for the 4090, theres going to be so much headroom for overclocking!
I’m normally not a sucker for RGB, but those fans are fire 10:17 causal surface finish absolute FLEX I agree that this original card not being custom loop able didn’t make sense.
I can totally understand the concept of having an AIO solution for this card. It works for someone who wants and off- the- shelf solution to stick into his build. But the next generation 5090 cards should have atleast one variant that has a great waterblock pre- installed for the use in a custom waterloop :)
when I first heard of this "der8auer" it was in the article about world record in overclocking as "professional overclocker from Germany" and thought "da fu*k is a professional overclocker? must be some rich schmuck". then I discovered tech tube or videos on youtube about tech, and bit by bit got here about two years ago through GN video if I'm not mistaken. not only did my opinion change about you, I stand here ashamed I ever assumed you were a schmuck. my apologies for ever thinking that. thank you for making this world a better place Roman.
would have made more sense to have the card be like this and the pump be on the rad that way they could sell the card separate and an AIO version for more money
Stuff like this is making me think that there should be a "___ x Alphacool" GPU by now, with an all-in-one package you can slap into your system but also break off and route through a CPU block/extra rad as well for a really elegant solution.
Having integrated quick disconnects would have been really cool on this one. But that would have been much more complicated to do. Otherwise, having the G1/4 flush with the card, with tubes like the ones from Billet Labs, where they solder a G1/4 threaded insert into copper tubes themselves. So it would be hidden inside the two plastic covers.
I'm running a Watercool Heatkiller V Pro Ultra block with normal paste (I used KPX) on a 4090 TUF PC w/ Matrix BIOS. At 475-525w power draw (port royale 4K), With a stable water temp, 110l/h flow rate, I get a water to core delta of 12-15c. 400w would be
I hope Asus will listen, they can even have the pump at the radiator sold separately for a quick connect custom loop if they are trying to cater for people without a custom, I don't know why none has not done that yet.
How awesome! Make-A-Wish foundation is such an amazing charity and you are an amazing person for donating such a generous amount! My Neice will be going to Disney World here in a couple of months thanks to donations such as yours. Keep being the awesome person you are! :)
Any graphics card that runs so hot should come bundled with a water cooling cpu heatsink and a radiator. Maybe daisy chain fans for the radiator (or a three piece) too. That way they could all be cooled fairly effectively. I wonder how effective this would be.
If companies want to sell AIO graphics cards in higher numbers, i believe that focus is better fitted for ITX cases. ITX cases usually support a 240mm radiator, and the 7800X3D is easily tamed with a low profile CPU cooler. I may be wrong but i see a way better market for AIO liquid cooled GPUs in the SFX/ITX format. Not to mention its usually easier to make the cards smaller with water cooling, you'll see 4 slot cards become 2 slots cards.
It's nice of you to credit your viewers, but honestly you should take more merit for this. Sure, your audience gives you some revenue, but it's an audience that you built with your amazing work. And the same with Thermal Grizzly, you (and your team) built that. And it's your action to support that charity. You could have kept the money and no-one would have said anything. You're great, don't give us, the audience too much credit either ;)
Totally agree. They could’ve included an AIO approach, no issue, but instead using some similar solution to some aquacomputer rad/pump combo, or similar. This way would be almost an AIO but better, or simply store it away and go full custom.
Yeah when I saw the Matrix was an AIO I really questioned why someone would buy it. Custom cooling will always be more effective and if you're spending nearly $2K, I don't think the inconvenience is a concern anymore.
That's one thing i love about my aquacomputer next 2080 ti block. It did paste on gpu and mems then used 1mm pads on EVERYTHING ELSE. It covered and cooled every component on the reference board. I still have it, with ambient cooling it performed better than my Kingpin 2080 ti! I so wanted to take the gpu and mems and put them on a kingpin pcb. Edit: i agree with the person that the terminal should have been in the gap between the frame and card. Would look so much cleaner. I want one.....
The thing you not thinking of is that, with the original cooling you can sell it to another, that not have a custom loop. Card's with only water cooling seems harder to sell in the used market.
