Nvidia’s RTX 40-series graphics playing cards have been introduced (opens in new tab), however you received’t have the ability to purchase an EVGA flavoured one. Simply days earlier than the announcement of Nvidia’s new Ada Lovelace vary, EVGA despatched shockwaves by the PC market, saying that it will be exiting the graphics card enterprise (opens in new tab). One of many questions that went unanswered was what would occur to EVGA’s flagship Kingpin line of merchandise. That query has now been answered by Vince ‘Kingpin’ Lucido himself.
In a Fb submit (opens in new tab), Kingpin thanked the neighborhood and left open the concept the Kingpin model may stay on at one other vendor. “If the KP {hardware} is supposed to proceed on in a method or one other, I am positive that it’ll :),” the submit says.
Properly effectively. It will appear he’s open to affords from different distributors. Although Kingpin has been partnered with Nvidia in a single kind or one other for a few years, you by no means know, even an AMD accomplice may very well be sooner or later. Wouldn’t that be one thing, particularly if the likes of an Asus, Gigabyte or MSI are prepared to contemplate a partnership. All three have the budgets, design and engineering groups and all make each Nvidia and AMD playing cards.
One may think about that one or all of those corporations are reaching out to Kingpin to not less than focus on the concept. Even ignoring the {hardware} facet of it, all distributors have their very own in-house overclockers. Each vendor makes use of excessive OC outcomes for advertising functions, and there’s no larger identify in overclocking circles than Kingpin.
It’s true that overclocking has taken a again seat to gaming lately, not less than in relation to branding and advertising, however within the final 12 months or two, that’s reversed a bit. Asrock introduced again its OC Formulation motherboard vary after lacking a few generations. Gigabyte launched its Tachyon (opens in new tab) vary, whereas Asus’ Apex (opens in new tab) motherboards are persistently held in excessive regard.
As soon as can think about {that a} well-engineered Kingpin branded overclocking motherboard from a significant vendor would generate buzz, advertising worth and ship quite a lot of gross sales. Heck I’m right here speaking about it! Z890 Maximus Kingpin anybody? RX 8900XT Kingpin? Pure hypothesis after all, but when Vince has his manner, it appears as if the Kingpin model will stay on in a single kind or one other.
