Monday, January 12th 2015
EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Classified K|NGP|N Edition and GTX 970 FTW Pictured
Ahead of its launch, and after teasing it early last week, EVGA showed off its flagship single-GPU graphics card, the GeForce GTX 980 Classified Kingpin Edition. Based on a meatier version of the company's ACX 2.0 cooling solution, the card features clear acrylic cutouts around its shroud, rather than a frosty translucent one, featured on its GTX 780 Ti based predecessor.
It features a massive 10-phase VRM that draws power from two 8-pin and one 6-pin PCIe power connectors, which in addition to stabilizing your record-seeking overclock, power a defrosting circuit that keeps key areas of the PCB warm enough to prevent frosting, when cooling with subzero solutions, such as liquid nitrogen. The other big card is the GeForce GTX 970 FTW, the company's top-tier card based on NVIDIA's second fastest GPU. The card features a strong VRM that draws power from a combination of 6-pin and 8-pin connectors. It features a standard-size ACX 2.0 cooler, and a back-plate cools memory chips on that side.
It features a massive 10-phase VRM that draws power from two 8-pin and one 6-pin PCIe power connectors, which in addition to stabilizing your record-seeking overclock, power a defrosting circuit that keeps key areas of the PCB warm enough to prevent frosting, when cooling with subzero solutions, such as liquid nitrogen. The other big card is the GeForce GTX 970 FTW, the company's top-tier card based on NVIDIA's second fastest GPU. The card features a strong VRM that draws power from a combination of 6-pin and 8-pin connectors. It features a standard-size ACX 2.0 cooler, and a back-plate cools memory chips on that side.
14 Comments on EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Classified K|NGP|N Edition and GTX 970 FTW Pictured
You know, words are made with letters, we are no bloody ancient egyptians :P
and for highest level i expect more premium things, like metal shroud or something
ASUS recently showed off a 500A 8 phase VRM that's a whole 100A more than what the 780Ti K|NGP|N card had on it's 14 phase VRM.
Let's look at the dictionary here for the definition:
www.thefreedictionary.com/kingpin:
1. the most important person in an organization
2. the crucial or most important feature of a theory, argument, etc
3. (Mechanical Engineering) a pivot pin that provides a steering joint in a motor vehicle by securing the stub axle to the axle beamAlso called (Brit): swivel pin
4. (Bowls & Bowling) tenpin bowling the front pin in the triangular arrangement of the ten pins
5. (Bowls & Bowling) (in ninepins) the central pin in the diamond pattern of the nine pins
I can't speak for Vince but I would say the name fits definition 2 or 4 or maybe both. These definitions for the word existed long before the Marvel character came into existence.
Ok, so it is multiple, I did that checking but supposed that someone in "da scene" would choose it for those typical over the top playernames, not engineering, but at least I learned something and that is just great! so Thanks!