KINGPIN says NVIDIA tried to force a single power connector onto the KINGPIN RTX 3090 Ti, screwing up its production schedule
The prominent overclocker revealed why the RTX 3090 Ti KINGPIN faced a production issue.
Overclocker KINGPIN says NVIDIA’s limitation on using a single 12VHPWR connector on the RTX 3090 Ti KINGPIN ‘screwed the production schedule’
Legendary overclocker Vince “KINGPIN” Lucido has uploaded his first ever video to his new YouTube channel called Overclock Kingpin, where he announces that he is working with ASUS. In the video, Vince showed off some hardware sent by ASUS for testing, but he also talked about some previous issues he encountered while working at EVGA.
We know that the relationship between EVGA and NVIDIA could not last long and ended in 2022 when the board partner was unable to maintain its GPU business because NVIDIA’s own Founders Edition cards were competing with EVGA’s custom GPUs. At the same time, NVIDIA wanted EVGA to reduce the price of budget GPUs, to the point where the company was selling its GPUs at a loss.
Vince said that when it came to the production of EVGA’s latest flagship card, which was the EVGA RTX 3090 Ti KINGPIN Hybrid Edition, NVIDIA messed up the production line because Vince wanted the GPU to have two 12VHPWR connections, while NVIDIA wanted to limit it to a single connector. The GPU was finally released three months after the RTX 3090 Ti launched, but the production line was halted due to a connector issue.
Right before the 3090 Ti KINGPIN launched, NVIDIA tried to force us to use only one power connector on the card, which really messed up my card’s production schedule and ended up being severely limited because of it. I just think if you’re spending over $5,000 on a card, you really should be able to do whatever you want with it.
-Vince KINGPIN Lucido
This also led to a decrease in the number of units produced and was the last flagship NVIDIA EVGA GPU ever made. The RTX 3090 Ti launched at a high price of $1,999, and the RTX 3090 Ti KINGPIN hybrid card with two 12-pin connectors launched at $2,500, bundled with a 1,600W PSU. Vince “KINGPIN” Lucido now wants to collaborate with ASUS for DIY content. Additionally, he has high hopes of creating a ROG KINGPIN card in the future.
Information Source: Tweak Town
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