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EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Kingpin Edition Launched

Kelt hacks his graphics card neural centre...

"ASIC score of 150%! Buy it while it's hot!!!"
 
Hmm i thought i understood ASIC quality as power leakage or something. For example cards with high quality ASIC such as 80+ don't have as much leakage and can run lower voltage to maintain a similar overclock to some one with a card that has a lower ASIC quality which requiers slightly higher voltage to maintain the same overclock as the higher one.


So high quality ASIC
Lower voltage (equals lower power consumption)
Lower temps and easier overclocking on air temp wise!

Lower ASIC quality
Higher voltage (more power consumption)
Slightly higher temps making overclocking slightly more difficult on air.

HOWEVER this does not affect your GPU lottery as the core still can only handle what ever it can handle which it finds stable. This is just power leakage which is my understanding.

So the best you can hope for from ASIC is better temps and lower voltage/power consumption but overclocking limits still vary!

How i understood it!
 
So an extra $200 for a chance that the card might be good for an extra 50MHz.

All this does is make the kingpin and indeed the whole EVGA line up much less desirable. The 8pack HOF looks even better after news like this.
 
Guess this also means buying a classified is a waste of time as all the good chips are going to the kingpin. Looks like I wont be buying EVGA for a while if they don't change this approach.
 
majnu said:
http://www.overclock.net/t/1476455/official-galax-galaxy-kfa2-hof-owners-club/1850#post_24196028

Also just for the lolz

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So, anyone want to buy my 81% asic OCUK ref card? Does 1595mhz on air.

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
 
I think I will avoid EVGA in the future. Seems they are chucking all the crap on the consumer cards and keeping the better chips for the Kingpin. Seems unfair to me.
 
This is disappointing, although I have to say my EVGA 980 ti Superclocked is running like a dream. First time I've went with them.
 
What next? Add a price premium based on how much coil whine a card has? Christ almighty as if it wasn't bad enough with the old "supply and demand, exchange rate, early adopter premiums" this is just taking the ****.
 
Gerard said:
What next? Add a price premium based on how much coil whine a card has? Christ almighty as if it wasn't bad enough with the old "supply and demand, exchange rate, early adopter premiums" this is just taking the ****.
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Blimey, don't give 'em ideas! :eek:
 
This asic thing looks like bad news as I can imagine it catching on, with paying the price these command I would expect only 80%+ cards make the grade for the ultimate elite card other wise they just devalue the brand
 
Well looks like EVGA are taking nVidia price gouging to a whole new level lol. Well if people buy their inflated prices EVGA can get away with stuff like this as people will just buy their cards.

So either like it or... well lump it. lol.
 
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