Hi all , Have you seen the new cards previewed this week at CES and are you looking to get one on Launch day, If so which one do you fancy?
I kind of like the Waterforce Gigabyte 5090 card that is already blocked .

Asus 5090 Astral. Most likely won't be able to get it on launch day. Not 100% sure I'm going to go through with it atm as I'm on the fence wanting to see reviews, and wanting to see if the connectors are going to melt down due to increased wattage.

Do you know if the Current 12vHP cables we use one our 4090 are compatible the the 12x6 spec on the new 5090?

They are.

That Astral is a hell of a card, but I would bet they want 600 over MSRP , The Strix 4090 was like 450 over and they went plumb insane on the LC cards which is just to rich for me,   I say that now, LOL, 
obtw I had the TUF in my cart on 4090 launch day and changed my mind and got the MSI SUPRIM hybrid because it was 1799, and a higher advertised clock speed.
 
That FOUNDERS edition is very interesting but I think its going to be the most difficult to water cool because of the daughter boards for the interface and PCI slot.

From what people have been saying the astral is going to be replacing the strix. The strix is more lightweight and uses a plastic shroud this gen... https://youtu.be/RU0xUyKq...yTc9pFLBLjci&t=303

I like the Gigabyte RTX 5080 but I am out of money at present. CoolerMaster will enter the GPU market and their GPUs are going to look great. 

I am very interested in the 5080 as well.  I don't have any issues with Asus, MSI or PNY.  Will have to see what is available

Dreaming about a 5070 or 5080. Cost and availability is more important than a particular brand or aesthetics at the moment.

Nope. I posted this in the news section, but the current info doesn't look exciting for me. The MFG seems like an interesting trick from a tech standpoint, but I would need to see some very positive reviews on games I actually want to play to be interested.

Saw this article with some leaked 3DMark scores.
 
The leak gives the 5090 a Time Spy Extreme score of "24000+" and Speedway: "13500+".
Stock scores for 4090 were ~19000 for Time Spy Extreme and ~9950 for Speedway. That's +26% for non-RT and about +35.7% for the RT benchmark. That's pretty much where I predicted lol.
 
If you ignore MFG: it's +26 to 36% performance uplift for +25% price and +28% power. i.e. little to no change in performance/price from 4090. Edit: Same goes for perf/watt.
 
Also, the article looks at the scores of overclocked 4090's (there's an update with stock scores) from 3DMark's hall of fame, indicating that the 5090 (assuming stock) is ~5.3% faster than one of the fastest 4090's ever in TSE and ~8% faster than the fastest 4090 in Speedway.
 
The article stops there, but I was curious, so I looked at those stock 4090 numbers vs the fastest 3090ti scores...there was a ~30% increase in TSE and ~39% increase in Speedway from the fastest 3090ti to a stock 4090. That gets even more drastic when you consider the stock 4090 is likely running at lower power levels than those overclocked 3090ti's and you cannot say that for the stock 5090 vs overclocked 4090's. 
 
We still have to wait for real reviews (grains of salt required for leaks lol), but all the current information indicates that this is a generation for AI improvements, not aimed at gamers. The AI improvements can help with frame gen...but for most gaming purposes, it's just slight improvements over 4000-series.