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Obsidian Series 250D from Corsair. Click now to learn more. The EVGA GeForce GTX
780 Ti Kingpin Edition. It comes with a
1072 MHz base clock, an 1137 MHz boost
clock, but all of that is totally irrelevant because it is designed for
balls to the walls overclocking anyway. It's got 3 gigs of GDDDR5 clocked at 7
GHz and it costs $150 more than a base
card. So, what do you get for your money? Well, first up, you get a six
heat pipe dual 100 mm fan cooler with a
removable PWM heat sink. It's that little red unisync down there. Next up,
you get a unique translucent ACX cooler design. So, the regular one is black.
This one is different. It supports the usual NVIDIA technology. So, SLI up to
four-way G-Sync Shield game streaming GPU Boost 2.0 CUDA and four concurrent
displays. And this one also has some unusual stuff. So, in the box, along
with the usual case badge, poster, stickers, driver disc, and manual, is an
overclocking guide, sexy sleeved PCIe
power adapters, and a replacement thermal pad. Cuz you never know when
you're going to need a replacement thermal pad. What else is special about
this? Well, it uses a completely non-reference PCB with a 14 plus
threephase power design. So that's 14 phases GPU, three phases RAM, capable of
delivering up to 450 watts of power, which I guess explains
the dual 8 pin and single six pin PCI Express power connectors on the top of
the card. It also has on the top of the card an LN2 BIOS switch as well as a
Probit header and included adapter that allows you to use a multimeter instead
of software for voltage monitoring. Right next to that, we've got, speaking
of voltage monitoring, LED indicators that show the voltage health for the
GPU, RAM, PLLL, and 3.3 volt and 12volt
power inputs. When we move around to the back of the card, I guess there's also
SLI connectors up there. When we move around to the back of the card, we find
an EVBOT header. So, that is hardware level real-time voltage and clock speed
adjustments that can be made with the EVBOT dongle that's available from EVGA.
And then the last thing, you know, I guess there's like there's a cool, you know, back plate on it. The last thing
is not in the box, but it's more of an available thing. EK has a classified
edition water block that will work on the Kingpin edition card. And of course,
there are Kingpin's own liquid nitrogen cooling pots if you do decide to get
even more extreme than that. Okay, Lionus, this is a cool card, but what
about NVIDIA Greenlight? The voltages and clock speeds will be limited for
warranty purposes, right? Out of the box, perhaps, but I think Kingpin
himself put it best. quote unquote, "Do
you think I would put my name on a locked down card?" He said, "This card
was engineered to serve one purpose, to be the world's best overclocking
graphics card. Expect GPU clock speeds over 1.85 GHz with extreme cooling."
So, I'll refer to the official owners club thread here where you can uh easily
find unofficial tools because out of the box, you know, it's got to be limited
unofficial tools to completely unlock the card and release it from any
manufacturer limitations. you will be limited by physics, not by safety with
this graphics card. Which means that while EVGA has a three-year warranty,
um, if you do need to return it to them for some reason, you will need to do so
with the stockpile, stock cooling, and everything back in out of box condition.
But whatever you do with it in between it arriving and then coming back to them
in out of box condition is your own
thing. Now, to be clear, guys, around here, we're not Vince. We're not
Kingpin. not liquid nitrogen overclockers. Um, but frankly, not many
people are. So, we wanted to take a bit
of a different approach to this. We decided to take some of these unofficial
unlocking tools and see how far we could go with this on air versus a normal 780
Ti that costs $150 less if we fully
unlock it and we use the, you know, voltage modification tool to go as high
as it possibly can compared to a regular
780 Ti. So, I'll be handing it off to Luke. Wish him luck.
I've called a lot of things beasts throughout the times that I've been on video, but I think it's pretty hard to
get this close to the actual definition of beast. This card is ridiculous. It's
running at 1333 MHz on the core clock as
overclocked as it is right now and about 7,700
MHz on memory. Both of those things are
ridiculous. And we're using an unofficial overvolultting tool which is
unofficially linked below the unofficial video that you're watching right now
which will take you to an unofficial place to download the unofficial application which will unofficially
overvolt your card which I unofficially recommend you do for this card. I also
recommend jumping it into LN2 BIOS because you'll unlock many more of the
goodies and be able to play with the actual capabilities of this card.
without jumping into that BIOS, you're going to be hampered by many things that are cramping you down, cramping your
style, and not letting you overclock as much as you possibly could. And this
thing does it extremely well. When you're looking at the numbers on screen, try to remember that we're pretty sure
our 780 Ti uh reference edition is
probably quite golden of a sample and is a little bit higher than kind of the
average that I've seen around. So, this would normally be a higher difference um
than you're seeing in the graphs here, but this is how our cards bench at what
they're normally clocked at. Speaking of normally clocked at, you can check the
overclocking sheet in the link down below. That is definitely an official
link, not unofficial like the other link that's down there. Um, and you can check
out exactly how our cards are clocked and exactly how they're running. For this one, we actually have voltage
readouts from a multimeter, so you can see exactly how much volts are running
because this card supports pin out, which is actually really cool. Thank you
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waiting for things in the future? Are you jumping on it right now? Uh comment
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