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what's up guys Jays two cents here at Computex 2017 kicking things off here with the EVGA day this right here that I'm holding in my hand we're gonna get straight to it it's something we didn't see with the gtx 1080 but has made another appearance here with the 1080 TI this being the kingpin edition graphics card now I'm standing obviously with Vince mr. kingpin himself as well as 10 now I want to I want to kind of have a quick conversation with you I figured this card exists for a reason you talk to us about power delivery you talk to us about things that are different on here that although the card looks similar to something like a founders or for the win three it has unique touches on this that matter so my question to you is one what is different on here and why well basically this card is designed to push this GPU to its limit with basically no thermal limits you know voltage limits and we have some extra stuff on there like droop droop jumpers which can help in the fine-tuning of the maximum clock okay show me real quick we got this demonstration earlier and I thought this was important you guys to see show us what goes into taking something like a founders based card to bring it to this level okay well Tim yeah basically like on the far side like we take the founders cards and we attach this crazy-looking a like erm card so we can test all the power limitations and find out what the voltage is GPU can take and then like we know okay for the overclocking needs and like for even for the water cooling the gaming what limits we have space limits and them we implement all this knowledge which we learn from the using founders edition card into TP cards and then on the less lower level do I believe Garthim SD card so what you see right here though in a more shrunk down condensed version is present on the kingpin charge yes yep so that's so when you hear the internet say I'll just get at whatever card they all overclocked the same that might be true up to a point but to take it to the next level or to the extreme level though the power delivery is obviously most important and they've taken the power delivery that they've implemented over there shrunk it down and exists here on the for the win subi for the kingpin card now we've got three bios here right so we've got a normal and OC n NL n 2 so Ellen 2 obviously would kind of unlock you into this mode to be able to start taking it to an extreme level so out of the box this card is actually guaranteed 2025 now it's not going to ship with that speed enable but you can enable that speed and it's guaranteed it's the first time the ebj is actually offered a true overclocking guarantee with a number attached to it on average though how far have you seen somebody's get out of the box on air cooling I've seen 2150 plus Wow ok yeah not a single 1080 I've taken a look at our 1080p is seen personally has been able to achieve anything higher than a 2088 so that's already showing obvious improvements in the power delivery what's the challenge though I'm getting there um you can't have the card overheating then it has to be cool at you have to have like a cool environment in a case yeah on a hot summer day not the same kind of conditions that I have here in my lab of course right now it's got a pretty cool system here too we got it like a closed-loop ln2 system so it's kind of like water cooling on steroids but it's Ellen 2 and he's actually able to recapture some of that lnto after it's gone through its phase so he doesn't have to well let it all evaporate you guys have seen those cooling towers where they spill out it just evaporates and it's gone so he's able to recollect some of that but you've got for how many gallons I'd be saying they are 180 liters each Wow capacity and how often you read three Phillies um watch every week every week to two to four tanks a week okay well you know I look forward to seeing this car once it's available I don't know if we have any kind of timeline on that yet we'll update as we know more but yeah this card is is pretty cool now I asked the question upstairs and I notice that kingpin cards always have many DV ports or CV mini display ports on not full-sized display ports but when I asked the question and I got the answer I felt really stupid so that you can go a single slot if you're going to take the air cooler off anyway but they are obviously three mini DisplayPort and HDMI 2.0 we've got our DVI back on there now the back plates got something cool to wear it actually has their RGB flow or flow RGB design where they are the LEDs on the back you can't really see it here because again it's not a full production card the LEDs will actually give like a flow effect as the power is going through the part right that was the idea behind it yeah the concept is like sort of input to IO to sort of close people yeah each of the RGB LEDs controls individually so we can actually control them set different color different brightness and we'll see like different dynamic does it so that's pretty neat so it's not just aesthetics it's actually getting a little bit of a lesson of how power flows through a car something else is different here too is we actually have our PCI Express power on the back of the card so when it's in your case like this sort of making like a clunky 180 degree turn you can just make a nice pipe 90 into a case if it's in there or if it's on a test bench then you can just plug it into it on the back as well something else to is it does have copper plated heatsink it's very heavy if you guys have ever held a kingpin card you would know that they are significantly heavier than even like for the wind cards because of the additional copper on there and we've got some same similar designs like the four two and three we've got the pin fins on there we also have probes right here that you can plug in for monitoring things like voltage and temperature what else can you monitor off this well this one is just the temperature for that voltage ship so you're going to see the G fuel this primary voltage and also like by both elbows if you guys didn't know software voltage monitoring is very inaccurate so this is something that allows you to hook up a multi monitor to and you can monitor things very accurately on the back here when we got in this place we also have here the Eva bus connector so anything you can use but dongle to adjust the voltages and also have the status LEDs so they will show you if the voltages are okay then all the 5 LEDs will believe and we can also use the interface connector which will help our upcoming software how to actually modify different car settings like monitor all the temperature settings so including like even go into the Sub Zero like for extreme overclocking and water so we will actually get you read the information through the header not to the BCAM you can do either way so because like if you have the just legacy system then you can have to use a PC interface but if you want to have extra controls which gives in color card provides the MU using other M you can just have the cable going to the motherboard they're very great all the data well there you have it guys if you notice that the kingpin card name was missing in the latest generation well it's back and I'm with the man himself thanks for talking me today no problem 10 nice new as well and I'm gonna go ahead let him get back to his a extreme situation here also to these shows I have to show that this controller this is this looks like a mortal kombat right like a arcade controller but look at this shows a show method this it is actually or it was 360 controller we modified this last year for copy text actually and this can run up to 4 GPUs and one CPU we have these buttons to activate the battle flow all the lm-2 annually so this is your Alan to controlling pretty much yeah Wow see I tell you guys all the time I don't do anything cool these guys do cool stuff no pun intended alright let's go thanks for talking this guy thank you alright we'll see in the next month