EVGA teases upcoming GeForce GTX 980 Ti Kingpin card for overclockers
EVGA teases upcoming GeForce GTX 980 Ti Kingpin card for overclockers
Since the release of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti at the start of June, we’ve been treated to a galore of custom cards from add-in card manufacturers. Although the reference card is already a stellar performer at a fairly attractive price, the factory overclocks and sleek coolers on custom cards do make the GeForce GTX 980 Ti a lot more impressive.
EVGA already offers a whooping eight variants of the GeForce GTX 980 Ti, and it’s now capping it off with a teaser of the upcoming ultra-enthusiast – it's effectively beefing up an already enthusiast-grade card – GeForce GTX 980 Ti Kingpin.
The teaser takes the form of several tantalizing images posted by k|ngp|n himself on the kingpincooling forums, and we’ve to say that that is seriously one good-looking card.
While most custom GeForce GTX 980 Ti cards utilize dual 8-pin PCIe power connectors over the 6-pin and 8-pin connectors found on the reference card, the Kingpin ups the ante with dual 8-pin connectors and an additional 6-pin connector.
Overclocking is clearly the message of the day here, and EVGA appears to be setting up the card for a whole lot of overclocking headroom. But high clock speeds can generate a lot of heat, and the Kingpin will use copper heatsinks instead of the traditional aluminium to help with thermal dissipation.
Furthermore, there are dedicated memory and MOSFET cooling plates to help channel heat directly to the copper heatsink.
That’s certainly some hefty cooling apparatus right there. It’ll also have some literal heft to it as copper is quite a bit heavier than aluminium. Unfortunately, EVGA stopped short of releasing price and release details, so we don’t know yet when it will be available.
Source: EVGA via Tom's Hardware