 For the ultimate no compromises compact gaming PC look no further than the Obsidian series 250d from Corsair click now to learn more the EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti kingpin edition it comes with a 1072 megahertz base clock and 1137 megahertz boost clock but all of that is totally irrelevant because it is designed for balls to the walls overclocking anyway it's got three gigs of GDDR5 clocked at 7 gigahertz and it costs a hundred and fifty dollars more than a base card so what do you get for your money well first up you get a 6 heat pipe dual 100 millimeter fan cooler with a removable PWM heat sink that little red unisink down there next up you get a unique translucent ACX cooler design so the regular one is black this one is different it supports the usual Nvidia technology so SLI up to four-way G sync shield game streaming GPU boost 2.0 CUDA and four concurrent displays and this one also has some unusual stuff so in the box along with the usual case badge poster stickers driver disk and manual is an overclocking guide sexy sleeved PCIe power adapters and a replacement thermal pad because you never know when you're going to need a replacement thermal pad what else is special about this well it uses a completely non-reference PCB with a 14 plus three phase power design so that's 14 phases GPU three phases RAM capable of delivering up to 450 watts of power which I guess explains the dual 8-pin and single 6-pin PCI Express power connectors on the top of the card it also has on the top of the card an LN2 bio switch as well as a probit header and included adapter that allows you to use a multimeter instead of software for voltage monitoring right next to that we've got speaking of voltage monitoring LED indicators that show the voltage health for the GPU RAM PLL and 3.3 volt and 12 volt power inputs when we move around to the back of the card I guess there's also SLI connectors up there when we move around to the back of the card we find an EVBOT header so that is hardware level real-time voltage and clock speed adjustments that can be made with the EVBOT dongle that's available from EVGA and then the last thing you know I guess there's like there's a cool you know backplate on it the last thing is not in the box but it's more of an available thing EK has a classified edition water block that will work on the kingpin edition card and of course there are kingpin's own liquid nitrogen cooling pots if you do decide to get even more extreme than that okay Linus this is a cool card but what about Nvidia green light the voltages and clock speeds will be limited for warranty purposes right out of the box perhaps but I think kingpin himself put it best quote-unquote you think I would put my name on a locked down card he said this card was engineered to serve one purpose to be the world's best overclocking graphics card expect GPU clock speeds over 1.85 gigahertz with extreme cooling so I'll refer to the official owners club thread here where you can easily find unofficial tools because out of the box it's got to be limited unofficial tools to completely unlock the card and release it from any manufacturer limitations you will be limited by physics not by safety with this graphics card which means that while EVGA has a three-year warranty if you do need to return it to them for some reason you will need to do so with the stockpile stock pooling and everything back in out-of-box condition but whatever you do with it in between it arriving and then coming back to them in out-of-box condition is your own thing now to be clear guys around here we're not Vince we're not kingpin we're not liquid nitrogen overclockers but frankly not many people are so we wanted to take a bit of a different approach to this we decided to take some of these unofficial unlocking tools and see how far we could go with this on air versus a normal 780 Ti that cost $150 less if we fully unlock it and we use the you know voltage modification tool to go as high as it possibly can compared to our regular 780 Ti so I'll be handing it off to Luke wish him luck I've called a lot of things beasts throughout the times that I've been on video but I think it's pretty hard to get this close to the actual definition of beast this card is ridiculous it's running at 1333 mega hertz on the core clock as overclocked it is as it is right now and about 7,700 megahertz on memory both of those things are ridiculous and we're using an unofficial overvolting tool which is unofficially linked below the unofficial video that you're watching right now which will take you to an unofficial place to download the unofficial application which will unofficially overvolt your card which I unofficially recommend you do for this card I also recommend jumping it into LN2 BIOS because you'll unlock many more of the goodies and be able to play with the actual capabilities of this card without jumping into that BIOS you're gonna be hampered by many things that are cramping you down cramping your style and not letting you overclock as much as you possibly could and this thing does it extremely well when you're looking at the numbers on screen try to remember that we're pretty sure our 780 Ti reference edition is probably quite golden of a sample and is a little bit higher than kind of the average that I've seen around so this would normally be a higher difference than you're seeing in the graphs here but this is how our cards bench at what they're normally clocked at speaking of normally clocked at you can check the overclocking sheet in the link down below that is definitely an official link not unofficial like the other link that's down there and you can check out exactly how our cards are clocked and exactly how they're running for this one we actually have voltage readouts from a multimeter so you can see exactly how much volts are running because this card supports pinout which is actually really cool thank you for watching the video like and dislike this 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