solodkiy.art for dram.gold · 19.09.2026 · fan design study

Accelerate Tomorrow. Design Today.

Form Follows Function. Style Follows Both.

Two real Gigabyte AORUS machines — RTX 5090 INFINITY and RTX 5090 AI Box — redrawn in my acid-colored Japanese language: CMYK polymer, 3D-printed lattices, analog clicks. Official millimetres. Unofficial skin.

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330 mm: Infinity L
3-slot: 65 mm
TB5: 80 Gbps
32 GB: GDDR7

01 / Manifesto

I don’t own them. I want them. This is the overlay.

I am a fan of Gigabyte AORUS — of the INFINITY 3-slot density and of the AI Box as a portable mainframe you can actually carry. I do not have these two rigs. This page is how I see them once the stealth-aerospace shell is replaced with additive polymer, warning orange, and the CMYK of a Tokyo print shop.

The overlay is strict. 330 × 145 × 65 mm. 302 × 172 × 189 mm. 12V-2x6 on the top edge. Double Flow-Through windows. 240 mm WATERFORCE, side intake, top exhaust. Thunderbolt 5. Nothing in the sketches is allowed to lie about the hardware.

Style here is not RGB soup. Color is a function code. Lattice is airflow. A toggle is a sentence you can feel. Compute as an art object — still a tool.

02 / DNA

Author DNA — four rules

Polychromatic blocking

Cream and industrial grey as the field. Cyan, magenta, signal orange, solar yellow as accents that mean something: intake, exhaust, power, caution.

3D-printed lattice

Voronoi / truss / triangle meshes as removable skins over Hawk Fans and the 240 mm radiator. Never over the hidden Overdrive Fan, never over 12V-2x6.

Analog, tactile UI

Toggles with guards, sliders, knobs, hex hardware. Software still runs GCC. Hands get a click.

Tactical industrial graphic

Canvas handle, paracord, stencil type, hazard diagonals. 5090 and WATERFORCE as objects on the body, not stickers on a black slab.

Node 1 · internal · GV-N5090AORUS IF-32GD

AORUS RTX 5090 INFINITY

Blackwell GB202 in a 3-slot exoskeleton. Visually two fans; thermally three. The custom skin sits on the facia, the Halo rings, and the backplate windows — not on the PCIe bracket.

gigabyte.com

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 · GB202
CUDA: 21,760
Boost: 2730 MHz (ref. 2407)
VRAM: 32 GB GDDR7 · 512-bit · 28 Gbps
Size: 330 × 145 × 65 mm · 3-slot
Bus: PCI Express 5.0 x16
Power: 1× 16-pin 12V-2x6 · 1000 W PSU rec.
Video: 3× DP 2.1b · 1× HDMI 2.1b
Cooling: WINDFORCE HYPERBURST · 2+1 fans

Sanctity zones — do not move

330 × 145 × 65 mm envelope
PCIe bracket + I/O cutouts
12V-2x6 on the top longitudinal edge
Dual backplate flow-through windows
Center axis reserved for Overdrive Fan

Node 2 · external · GV-N5090IXEB-32GD

AORUS RTX 5090 AI Box

A 9.8-litre tower with 850 W inside and a 240 mm liquid loop. The custom skin is a carryable laboratory: handle, toggles, parametric grill — ports stay where Gigabyte put them.

gigabyte.com

GPU: WATERFORCE RTX 5090 32G · GB202
CUDA: 21,760
Clock: 2407 MHz
VRAM: 32 GB GDDR7 · 512-bit
Size: 302 × 172 × 189 mm · 5.4 kg
PSU: 850 W internal · >90% · 100–240 V
Link: Thunderbolt 5 · 80 Gbps · 64 Gbps PCIe
PD: USB-C Power Delivery 3.0 · 100 W
I/O: TB5 · USB-C · 2× USB-A · RJ-45 · 3× DP · HDMI

Sanctity zones — do not move

302 × 172 × 189 mm envelope
Side intake, top 240 mm exhaust
Rear I/O + AC inlet positions
Front USB-C / TB5 cheek
850 W PSU cellar stays isolated

05 / Thermal

Two thermal doctrines, one silicon

WINDFORCE HYPERBURST

Dual outer Hawk Fans: +53.6% static pressure, +12.5% airflow
Hidden central Overdrive Fan — peak-load only, aimed at the heat-pipe stack
Double Flow-Through backplate: +58% exhaust vs a solid plate
Composite metal grease on GB202; server gel on GDDR7 / VRM

WATERFORCE AIO

Full-cover copper block on GPU + VRAM + VRM
FEP tubing — no coolant diffusion over years
240 mm aluminium radiator, twin 120 mm dual-ball-bearing fans
Isolated 850 W PSU cellar so the loop and the brick do not cook each other

06 / Matrix

Official millimetres, unofficial skin

Factory figures. The redesign does not move them.

Axis	INFINITY	AI BOX
Form	3-slot ATX card	Tower monoblock ≈ 9.8 L
Cooling	Air · Double Flow-Through	Liquid · 240 mm AIO
Interface	PCIe 5.0 x16	Thunderbolt 5 80 Gbps
Boost	2730 MHz	2407 MHz
Power	Host 1000 W PSU · 12V-2x6	Internal 850 W · PD 100 W
Audience	Desktop builders	Ultrabook / local AI