Graphics cards are very expensive these days. Hardly news, of course, and the most powerful of these have been ludicrously pricey for quite a few years now. Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition has a painful MSRP of $1,999 and other models are considerably more expensive. Enter stage left, the Asus ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 Dhahab OC Edition, replete with a massive cooler, a hefty base overclock, over six grams of gold-plating… oh, and a $7,000 price tag.
We first learned of Asus' golden goose earlier this year, but there was no word on what the price was going to be. While all of us in the PC Gamer hardware office expected it to be extremely steep, I don't think any of us were expecting it to be this high.
