Saturday, June 22nd 2024
Legendary Overclocker KINGPIN Leaves EVGA and Joins PNY to Develop Next-Generation GPUs for Extreme OC
Legendary overclocker Vince Lucido, aka KINGPIN, has reportedly partnered with PNY to develop next-generation GPUs for extreme overclocking. KINGPIN, known for his unparalleled expertise in pushing hardware to its limits, revealed the partnership during a recent interview with Gamers Nexus at Computex 2024. The move comes as welcome news to enthusiasts who have been eagerly awaiting KINGPIN's next venture since EVGA's departure left a noticeable gap in the high-end GPU segment. Previously, he was the leading engineer of EVGA's high-end KINGPIN designs aimed at pushing the GPU to its limits. However, since EVGA decided to leave the GPU business, KINGPIN was looking for a new company to work on the next-generation GPU designs.
This time, the company of choice for KINGPIN is now PNY. While he has been in contact with many companies like GALAX and ASUS, he claims that it would be very crowded to work there as there are "too many cooks in the kitchen" with these companies already having in-house overclockers. He has also been talking with MSI, but the company wasn't interested in making GPUs for extreme overclocking. However, PNY has been very interested in shaking up the high-end GPU market. KINGPIN claims that there is a massive hole in the high-end GPU market, and he hopes to fill it with a collaboration with PNY. Next-generation GPU designs assisted by KINGPIN will reportedly arrive for the upcoming NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 series of GPUs when we hope to see the legacy EVGA left to continue at PNY.
Below, you can see the full video interview by Gamers Nexus.
This time, the company of choice for KINGPIN is now PNY. While he has been in contact with many companies like GALAX and ASUS, he claims that it would be very crowded to work there as there are "too many cooks in the kitchen" with these companies already having in-house overclockers. He has also been talking with MSI, but the company wasn't interested in making GPUs for extreme overclocking. However, PNY has been very interested in shaking up the high-end GPU market. KINGPIN claims that there is a massive hole in the high-end GPU market, and he hopes to fill it with a collaboration with PNY. Next-generation GPU designs assisted by KINGPIN will reportedly arrive for the upcoming NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 series of GPUs when we hope to see the legacy EVGA left to continue at PNY.
196 Comments on Legendary Overclocker KINGPIN Leaves EVGA and Joins PNY to Develop Next-Generation GPUs for Extreme OC
All the fanbois in the video comments saying 'Let's Gooooo!' and stuff, get a life. Getting hyped about a brand name is mental.
EVGA's downfall is its own management's fault. They have been doing things wrong for a long time and eventually it was no longer sustainable. The CEO clearly does not care and is letting the company die a very slow death. It will eventually completely wind down all of its operations and close up shop. It`s one step from that point right now.We will see. It remains that EVGA Kingpin cards were some of the best in class, up there with the ASUS Matrix and the Galax OC Lab cards. It is worth noting that PNY doesn't seem to have any particular skill in AIB design, they sell reference design boards and some models that are repackaged from China (their Uprising 4090 is the same one Manli sells in China, for example). That, and they distribute the professional cards in the Americas for NVIDIA (Leadtek does this in the EU, iirc).
A collective shrug as Nvidia continues to tighten it's grip on the market.
The answer is no one.
I swear, some people act like it's illegal to blame Nvidia for anything.Good luck to anyone trying to stop a 3 trillion dollar company with a massive penchant for anti-competitive practices.
If not that, all you can do is make the GPU cooler and\or quiter within the same preferences level.
Much luck to KP, but it will be expensive as f***
On the article itself, I'm not a super fan of PNY given they don't have a transferabble warranty. There's no reason to invalidate a warranty due to a change of owners other than to reduce liability. I'd rather they just increase price if needed to include a better warranty policy.
All the guides explaining the product, the software, the switches, the functionality, and the reasoning were not written by Kingpin. I think he will really struggle on his own. And I think others deserve a lot more credit than this 'legendary' face to a brand name.
1 - The drive for a better product, he mentioned having access to his own team of engineers, and he can then push them to use specific components, place things in a certain way, the GPU bios, that sort of thing.
2 - He has input on the cooling, he even claimed the EVGA kingpin cooling are his own designs.
So they were always pricy, but they offered the best of the best that class of card could offer with only the silicon lottery being the only thing he couldnt control.
I could honestly imagine that the Kingpin 4090 would have been a 2 slot AIO card from the start AND 2 power connecters coming out in the normal location and not the top that nVidia wanted everyone to use.
They currently don't have any GPU pots for sale but that should change before too long and even help boost his CPU pot line (T-Rex) as well.
I've got a T-Rex v1 and it's what I use for most of what I do for that purpose - Great pot to use when going for it.
I've soldered my own capacitors onto cards as well; followed with potentiometers to increase voltages of over 2.2V.
Slapped a phase change cooler onto it and you got a chip operating at -40 degrees and over 150% GPU Core OC.
The Kingpin stuff is bolt on, plug and play, just install the cooler of choice and your good to go. Hopefully someone like Kingpin is offered to go way beyond AMD's specification as we're seeing now with the 7x00 series; locked bios, no morepowertools, just a small 15% increase in power and that's it.