EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Kingpin Edition Launched

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The EVGA GTX 980Ti KINGPIN has been designed to be the perfect overclocker, with different price ranges for different GPU ASIC qualities. Has the Silicon lottery been completely removed?

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Read more on EVGA's GTX 980Ti KINGPIN here.
 
What evga has done is really clever!
Also that means that if you buy the cheapest card you are going to get a "bad" chip, some might say it loses the "magic" of the silicon lottery :P
 
What evga has done is really clever!
Also that means that if you buy the cheapest card you are going to get a "bad" chip, some might say it loses the "magic" of the silicon lottery :P

Err no. You won't get a bad chip. And personally at this price I do not even want sillicon lottery. I want assurance that my card can OC well. However, even these low end ASIC cards will still perform very well. But it only gives you the potential to OC high, there is still no guarantee.
 
Total rip off lol.

If you want to spend that sort of money get a TitanX, they still top the LN2 benching charts as well.
 
Honestly, I think all Kingpin cards should be top of the line, so this should have been a Titan X, not a 980ti. Reason being if they price a 980ti tii high, people will see it as pointless because they can get a TX for the same price. If it was an incredibly overpriced TX, it would be expensive, but at least there wouldn't be anything above it in terms of performance.
 
"The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti King-of diminishing returns-pin Edition Launched"

Fixed it for you.

Or as someone on another forum renamed it "Kingbin Edition" lol.

If Kingpin really cares about his reputation he will walk away from this brand before EVGA get anymore greedy ideas.
 
Paying for a certain quality or bin seems legit IMO but it seems weird that the lower versions still fall under the Kingpin branding.

Guaranteeing 78% on KPE's and binning the remainder into regular Classy's seems like a more sensible way to go.


Nobody questions manufacturers retailing memory at different prices for what is physically an identical product.

JR
 
Paying for a certain quality or bin seems legit IMO but it seems weird that the lower versions still fall under the Kingpin branding.

Guaranteeing 78% on KPE's and binning the remainder into regular Classy's seems like a more sensible way to go.


Nobody questions manufacturers retailing memory at different prices for what is physically an identical product.

JR

The whole idea of the Kingpin cards is they are made from the best parts, unfortunately this does not appear to be the case anymore.
 
Can someone explain what the significant of 100% vs 90% etc is?I understant that a higher percentage is generally better, but what does something like 76% ASIC quality actually mean?
 
Can someone explain what the significant of 100% vs 90% etc is?I understant that a higher percentage is generally better, but what does something like 76% ASIC quality actually mean?

It means that generally you're too retarded to know that highly classified information :lol:...

No but seriously, +1 on Shadow's post...
 
Higher asic means better overclocking under air lower means a bit better overclocking under water if you raise the voltages
 
Well I always understood that higher ASIC meant card could run stable at stock for example at a lower voltage.

What I read was watercooled cards benefit from a lower ASIC whereas Air cooled could OC better at higher ASIC considering less voltage means less heat.

I could be totally off the mark of course. Personally I don't care much for ASIC values. Afterall, you don't know what you have until you have bought the card.
 
Higher asic means better overclocking under air lower means a bit better overclocking under water if you raise the voltages

Well I always understood that higher ASIC meant card could run stable at stock for example at a lower voltage.

What I read was watercooled cards benefit from a lower ASIC whereas Air cooled could OC better at higher ASIC considering less voltage means less heat.

I could be totally off the mark of course. Personally I don't care much for ASIC values. Afterall, you don't know what you have until you have bought the card.

We keep getting told that lower ASIC is better for water or LN2. The problem with this is why are EVGA not offering any low ASIC Kingpins as these cards are supposed to be for LN2 benching.
 
But what do the percentages mean in terms of the actualy quality of engineering of the product. Is there a physical difference?

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On a side not, what percentage of users actually use this card for LN2? ;)
 
But what do the percentages mean in terms of the actualy quality of engineering of the product. Is there a physical difference?

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On a side not, what percentage of users actually use this card for LN2? ;)

ASIC stands for Application Specific Integrated Circuit, and generally describes a computer designed for carrying out one specific set of calculations/instructions very rapidly - since all it does is that one thing, it can do it very quickly.
-taken from random online post-

So I assume the higher the percentage, the closer your GPU is to being an ASIC computer ?
 
But what do the percentages mean in terms of the actualy quality of engineering of the product. Is there a physical difference?

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On a side not, what percentage of users actually use this card for LN2? ;)

The point I am making is all Kingpin cards come with quite a high ASIC. If you use the Kingpin for what it is designed for it will be LN2 benching. Yet we are told quite often that cards with a low ASIC are better for LN2. Something does not add up with the claims.
 
I guess its to reel in the casuals and those lacking knowledge. I still remember that Vlada guy on here who bought 2 kingpin 780s purely for overclocking on air and had no intention of water cooling or using LN2, yet stood by his decision over the fact that a normally Classy would have suited him better. He will probably order 2 of the Supra $1000 kingpins :)
 
Same goes for Lightnings these days...

Not really they are just a premium card like the Matrix and Classified that respond very well to water cooling and make for a far more refined solution on air. Kingpins were allegedly built primarily and exclusively for LN2 but like everything they have a few fanboys.

JR
 
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