EVGA GTX 780 Ti Classified K|ngp|n Edition
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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1,261 words · ~6 min read
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For the ultimate no compromises compact gaming PC, look no further than the
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Obsidian Series 250D from Corsair. Click now to learn more. The EVGA GeForce GTX
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780 Ti Kingpin Edition. It comes with a
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1072 MHz base clock, an 1137 MHz boost
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clock, but all of that is totally irrelevant because it is designed for
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balls to the walls overclocking anyway. It's got 3 gigs of GDDDR5 clocked at 7
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GHz and it costs $150 more than a base
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card. So, what do you get for your money? Well, first up, you get a six
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heat pipe dual 100 mm fan cooler with a
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removable PWM heat sink. It's that little red unisync down there. Next up,
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you get a unique translucent ACX cooler design. So, the regular one is black.
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This one is different. It supports the usual NVIDIA technology. So, SLI up to
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four-way G-Sync Shield game streaming GPU Boost 2.0 CUDA and four concurrent
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displays. And this one also has some unusual stuff. So, in the box, along
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with the usual case badge, poster, stickers, driver disc, and manual, is an
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overclocking guide, sexy sleeved PCIe
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power adapters, and a replacement thermal pad. Cuz you never know when
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you're going to need a replacement thermal pad. What else is special about
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this? Well, it uses a completely non-reference PCB with a 14 plus
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threephase power design. So that's 14 phases GPU, three phases RAM, capable of
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delivering up to 450 watts of power, which I guess explains
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the dual 8 pin and single six pin PCI Express power connectors on the top of
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the card. It also has on the top of the card an LN2 BIOS switch as well as a
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Probit header and included adapter that allows you to use a multimeter instead
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of software for voltage monitoring. Right next to that, we've got, speaking
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of voltage monitoring, LED indicators that show the voltage health for the
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GPU, RAM, PLLL, and 3.3 volt and 12volt
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power inputs. When we move around to the back of the card, I guess there's also
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SLI connectors up there. When we move around to the back of the card, we find
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an EVBOT header. So, that is hardware level real-time voltage and clock speed
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adjustments that can be made with the EVBOT dongle that's available from EVGA.
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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
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is not in the box, but it's more of an available thing. EK has a classified
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edition water block that will work on the Kingpin edition card. And of course,
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there are Kingpin's own liquid nitrogen cooling pots if you do decide to get
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even more extreme than that. Okay, Lionus, this is a cool card, but what
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about NVIDIA Greenlight? The voltages and clock speeds will be limited for
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warranty purposes, right? Out of the box, perhaps, but I think Kingpin
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himself put it best. quote unquote, "Do
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you think I would put my name on a locked down card?" He said, "This card
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was engineered to serve one purpose, to be the world's best overclocking
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graphics card. Expect GPU clock speeds over 1.85 GHz with extreme cooling."
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So, I'll refer to the official owners club thread here where you can uh easily
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find unofficial tools because out of the box, you know, it's got to be limited
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unofficial tools to completely unlock the card and release it from any
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manufacturer limitations. you will be limited by physics, not by safety with
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this graphics card. Which means that while EVGA has a three-year warranty,
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um, if you do need to return it to them for some reason, you will need to do so
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with the stockpile, stock cooling, and everything back in out of box condition.
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But whatever you do with it in between it arriving and then coming back to them
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in out of box condition is your own
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thing. Now, to be clear, guys, around here, we're not Vince. We're not
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Kingpin. not liquid nitrogen overclockers. Um, but frankly, not many
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people are. So, we wanted to take a bit
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of a different approach to this. We decided to take some of these unofficial
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unlocking tools and see how far we could go with this on air versus a normal 780
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Ti that costs $150 less if we fully
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unlock it and we use the, you know, voltage modification tool to go as high
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as it possibly can compared to a regular
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780 Ti. So, I'll be handing it off to Luke. Wish him luck.
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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
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get this close to the actual definition of beast. This card is ridiculous. It's
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running at 1333 MHz on the core clock as
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overclocked as it is right now and about 7,700
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MHz on memory. Both of those things are
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ridiculous. And we're using an unofficial overvolultting tool which is
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unofficially linked below the unofficial video that you're watching right now
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which will take you to an unofficial place to download the unofficial application which will unofficially
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overvolt your card which I unofficially recommend you do for this card. I also
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recommend jumping it into LN2 BIOS because you'll unlock many more of the
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goodies and be able to play with the actual capabilities of this card.
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without jumping into that BIOS, you're going to be hampered by many things that are cramping you down, cramping your
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style, and not letting you overclock as much as you possibly could. And this
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thing does it extremely well. When you're looking at the numbers on screen, try to remember that we're pretty sure
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our 780 Ti uh reference edition is
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probably quite golden of a sample and is a little bit higher than kind of the
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average that I've seen around. So, this would normally be a higher difference um
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than you're seeing in the graphs here, but this is how our cards bench at what
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they're normally clocked at. Speaking of normally clocked at, you can check the
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overclocking sheet in the link down below. That is definitely an official
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link, not unofficial like the other link that's down there. Um, and you can check
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out exactly how our cards are clocked and exactly how they're running. For this one, we actually have voltage
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readouts from a multimeter, so you can see exactly how much volts are running
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because this card supports pin out, which is actually really cool. Thank you
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for watching the video. Like and dislike this video based on are you interested
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in this kind of card or are you kind of waiting for Maxwell to come out? Are you
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waiting for things in the future? Are you jumping on it right now? Uh comment
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