One of the world's most formidable overclockers, K|NGP|N, has been partnering with EVGA for some time now to bring products to market that are an overclocker's dream. The first images of the upcoming GTX 980 Ti K|NGP|N have been revealed on the kingpincooling forums, by K|NGP|N himself.
No details have been revealed about the upcoming graphics card, but from the images we know a few things already. The K|NGP|N edition GTX 980 Ti is built on a custom PCB (no surprise here -- they always are) that features three PCI-E power connectors, two 8-pin and one 6-pin.
From the images, it looks as though this card will have some significant weight to it. Not only does it have six large copper heat pipes (that appear to be possibly 8 mm pipes), but the heat sink fins are actually made of copper as well. Copper has better heat dissipation properties, which is why it is used for heat pipes, but it is also considerably heavier than aluminum, which is what you'd traditionally use for a heatsink.
The images clearly show that the latest edition to EVGA K|NGP|N lineup retains the memory/MOSFET cooling plates that the previous K|NGP|N GTX 980 offered. These plates are meant to help transfer heat from the memory chips directly to the heatsink.
EVGA has not released pricing, nor the release date of the GTX 980 Ti K|NGP|N.
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Who knows, maybe it will be worth it on air with that investment though.
Good idea to put in a case w/ a PSU shroud which you can use as a base for a post to hold up with right side of the card(s)
Aluminum 2712
Copper 8940
looks like its money well spent -lol
Next 2 cards I presume ..... if ya want 60 fps at 4k, gonna need SLI. Currently the reference Ti gives us ...
BF4 ~ 38 fps
Crysis 3 ~ 27 fps
Dead Rising ~ 26 fps
Dragon Age ~ 40 fps
FC4 ~ 35 fps
GTV ~ 42 fps
MetroLL ~ 37 fps
Ryse ~ 40 fps
SoM ~ 50 fps
TR ~ 50.3 fps
Watch Dogs ~ 42 fps
I'd expect the Kingpin to get 30+% above those as the Ti is an extremely overclockable design.
Card strength aside, I don't see 4k's adoption rate picking up until Display Port 1.3 arrives and we can get past double digit refresh rates.
http://forums.evga.com/GTX-980-TI-Classified-m2344369.aspx
you spend big bucks on a card the will require you to spend more on cooling then risk a bios hack to ''try/hope '' to get it to do something -- when the evga guys aint impressed what else is there to say
like I said before the zotac is 1253 out of the box for one price ready to go ??
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500379