Asus' ludicrous $10,850 20th-anniversary bundle is now the cheapest way to buy an RTX 5090 — Nvidia's flagship GPU stock is so limited that this bundle with a 3000W PSU, X870E board, and open-frame case is actually cheaper than some scalper listings
The best value way to get an RTX 5090 right now?
We've reviewed Asus' ROG Edition 20 anniversary kit. We've built a PC with it. It's about as premium as a gaming PC build can get. Right now, you can pick up the same kit for a whopping $10,849.96 on Newegg in a combo deal. To put it mildly, this is one expensive deal, but it's actually hiding a secret gem: it's the cheapest RTX 5090 graphics card on sale right now.
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Writing up a near-$11,000 combo set as a deal might seem silly, but one of the core components here is the Asus ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 Edition 20 that is priced as part of this deal at $5,999. You can't buy this Astral card on sale individually right now. In fact, you can barely buy an RTX 5090 anywhere. RTX 5090 stock has almost completely disappeared in the United States, with only sketchy third-party sellers offering it at prices approaching $10,000.
This premium GPU is now ultra premium and, for the time being, ultra rare. Does that make this $10,849.96 Newegg combo deal a good option? If money is no object, you're perversely getting some value for your money, as long as you don't think too hard about the RTX 5090's original $1,999 MSRP.
This frankly ridiculous bundle includes all of Asus' ROG Edition 20 kit, including the ROG Astral RTX 5090, ROG Crosshair X870E, ROG Thor Titanium III 3000W PSU, and the ROG GR20 open-frame PC case. No discount, but the RTX 5090 is the cheapest you'll find it, in the oddest way.
Yes, the GPU is an unstoppable force for any gamer. Our GPU benchmarks make that very clear. The RTX 5090 is the best GPU you can buy, and no other consumer GPU is going to beat it. It has 21,760 CUDA cores and 22GB of GDDR7 VRAM, with a 512-bit memory bus and bandwidth speeds of up to 1,792 GB/s.
This Astral is a world-beater of its own, though. It features an upgraded design, with a second BTF power connector to pull up to 800 watts, a glass backplate, and a curved OLED screen. It has faster clocks, hitting 2,750 MHz, with a 4.7-slot design. Performance-wise, the OG Astral is beating world records, so this is a card that you can really push to its limits (if you're not scared of charred power cables).
The $6,000 GPU aside, you're also getting a $3,299 Asus ROG Crosshair X870E Edition 20 motherboard. Asus has a few variants of this, but the Edition 20 board here has (alongside some beautiful gold accents) supports for up to nine M.2 SSDs, with five slots on the board and more via add-in cards. There are six USB-C ports, plus two 20 Gbps front-panel connectors. Large copper VRM heatsinks work with its integrated AIO cooler, with a curved 6.7-inch AMOLE screen and a huge copper heatsink. Probably overkill, but for $3,299, you want it all.
You're also getting a $899.99 Asus ROG Thor Titanium III 3000W Edition 20 power supply. It's a PSU, but 3000W isn't to be sniffed at, and it'll certainly provide enough power for the monstruous Astral RTX 5090. It’s fully modular, with another OLED display (magnetic, this time) which you can mount either side, or extend with a cable.
Finally, you get the Asus ROG GR20 open-frame EATX PC case, set at $649.99. This is a totally new design from Asus, supporting large EATX motherboards, and you can stand it vertically or horizontally. There's a crossflow fan to blow cool air onto the GPU, RGB light strips, and several fast USB ports. It's mostly aluminum, with some plastic, magnetically attached cosmetic covers around the sides.
$10,849.96 for this Asus combo kit is so much money for anyone to spend on a gaming PC build, but, unfortunately, we are where we are. As our Asus ROG Edition 20 build write-up mentions, this is a kit that few will buy and own. AI is pushing gaming PCs to new heights, and it's a real shame that we're now seeing current-gen flagship GPUs like the RTX 5090 becoming so rare to buy that combo offers like this are, perversely, almost good value. If you're spending $6K or more on a GPU, though, then it might make sense. You won't find an RTX 5090 cheaper (or, probably, at all, at least for some time) so if you want the best gaming PC build that you can find, this is the kit you'll want. For once, we don't imagine this will sell out soon, but Newegg might pull the deal at any point.
Ben Stockton is a deals writer at Tom’s Hardware. He's been writing about technology since 2018, with bylines at PCGamesN, How-To Geek, and Tom’s Guide, among others. When he’s not hunting down the best bargains, he’s busy tinkering with his homelab or watching old Star Trek episodes.
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youngtab The AIO monoblock on that board is pretty interesting, I don't think I've ever seen that before. Though it's pretty pointless, we've come a long way from the days when we mounted water blocks on VRMs and NBs. $3299 for that :sarcastic:Reply -
YSCCC Look, it's only gaming hardware... it's way over any reasonable pricing to be obtained at all cost..Reply -
blppt I've been using a 6900XT and 3090 in my two boxes since 2020, and it doesn't look like that will change anytime soon with these ridiculous prices.Reply
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vinay2070 Reply
Unless you want DLSS 5 at decent FPS, you dont even need to upgrade. Framegen got enabled on older 2k and 3K series anyway with mods. Tried it myself on the 3080Ti and it works flawlessly. DLSS5 works too but with a slight input lag in Cyberpunk. And with a 3090 you wont run out of VRAM either.blppt said:I've been using a 6900XT and 3090 in my two boxes since 2020, and it doesn't look like that will change anytime soon with these ridiculous prices.
I used to upgrade every year when we got the new gen (or half-gen) of GPUs. -
artk2219 Reply
Even beyond the prices, there aren't many cards that are hugely faster, the minimum upgrade would be an RX 9070 XT or RTX 5070 TI, those would offer around 40 - 50% more performance. But if you wanted double the performance, the only card capable of delivering that is the 5090, which comes with its own big can of worms, not the least of which is cost. I think that unless either one of those has an issue, you may be hanging on to them for a bit.blppt said:I've been using a 6900XT and 3090 in my two boxes since 2020, and it doesn't look like that will change anytime soon with these ridiculous prices.
I used to upgrade every year when we got the new gen (or half-gen) of GPUs.
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/sapphire-radeon-rx-9070-gre-pulse/32.html -
blppt Reply
Mainly the only games I have trouble running on max settings at 4k are fine when you enable DLSS or FSR on moderate settings. Or those Unreal engine games with the Global Illumination/Shadows that need to be turned down to Medium ALWAYS.artk2219 said:Even beyond the prices, there aren't many cards that are hugely faster, the minimum upgrade would be an RX 9070 XT or RTX 5070 TI, those would offer around 40 - 50% more performance. But if you wanted double the performance, the only card capable of delivering that is the 5090, which comes with its own big can of worms, not the least of which is cost. I think that unless either one of those has an issue, you may be hanging on to them for a bit.
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/sapphire-radeon-rx-9070-gre-pulse/32.html
But mostly, its the lack of say, the next Crysis, the gorgeous, system melting AAA game over the past 6 years that has demanded an upgrade from me. Best games recently for me have been BG3 and E:33, neither of which are particularly hardware melting. -
YSCCC Reply
And funny enough with the AI driven PC amagadon the devs are now optimizing the games to lower all sort of ram and GPU usage. but still the focus on gameplay was all but lost since photorealistic graphics in promos gets all the attention.blppt said:Mainly the only games I have trouble running on max settings at 4k are fine when you enable DLSS or FSR on moderate settings. Or those Unreal engine games with the Global Illumination/Shadows that need to be turned down to Medium ALWAYS.
But mostly, its the lack of say, the next Crysis, the gorgeous, system melting AAA game over the past 6 years that has demanded an upgrade from me. Best games recently for me have been BG3 and E:33, neither of which are particularly hardware melting.