ASUS ROG RTX 4090 Matrix Platinum Preview
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The first couple of photographs make us chuckle, but only because we know what the third one shows. To begin with the Matrix looks very much as you would expect an ASUS Republic of Gamers product to look. All swathes of black with their red eye logo and holographic text.
The back gives you a glimpse into what is special here, and what the cooling system is bringing to the party.
Here is what we said about above. Naturally putting the biggest GPU with a 360 radiator into a box requires a certain amount of girth, and the ASUS Matrix Platinum has it in abundance. If you needed something to take your dog to the vets in, it could well suffice. It’s huge.
All ROG products are an event to open, and the Matrix Platinum is no exception. Within the main outer box is another box, and inside that is the card and radiator itself. It’s almost designed to be shown off in unboxing videos.
A sneak peak into the top gives you your first glimpse of the Matrix, but as you’ll soon discover even this flirtacious glance doesn’t really bring home the insane amount of detail put into the design.
Lifting off the lid, printed with the ASUS Headquarters GPS coordinates we’re all familiar with from their Strix range, and you really get a chance to savour the incredible standards that ASUS have put into the Matrix. We don’t care what you’ve seen before, this is taking things to another level with a fully metal frame surrounding the custom engineered cold plate that is the element which really makes the Matrix stand out. Just take a look at the hoses and connectors. We’ll show you them in more detail in a moment, but blimey.
Most of us are familiar with AIOs by now, being the perfect blend of cooling capability and low noise, but we can’t recall seeing one, even at the peak of the price range, having tubing and connectors that are quite to this standard. Thick, well braided, and yet flexible. Simply gorgeous.
Click on and we’ll show things off in more detail.
