The Temptation of the EVGA GTX 780 Ti Classified Kingpin Edition

Not too long ago I wrote about my intended procurement of a new EVGA GTX 780 Ti Superclocked video card with ACX cooling. It’s one of the better video cards around at the moment particularly after some competition from AMD in the form of its 290X video card.

However, doing some browsing around the web over the weekend led me to find mention of a EVGA GTX 780 Ti Classified Kingpin video card. This card is essentially the same as the TI Superclocked version with ACX cooling aside from some cosmetic aspects, improved heatpipes and rumoured capabilities for overclocking to the extent that it has connectors for 1 x six pin and 2 x eight pin PCI Express power connectors. There’s even an eight phase power design in there to ensure stability.

Sounds like it’d make for some crazy benchmarking and fantastic framerates but then I got thinking.

I just want a video card to do what it does best – push pixels. I don’t want to have to muck around tweaking it that much aside from the quality settings in various games. The EVGA GTX 780 Ti Superclocked already does a good job at handling modern games at 2560 x 1600 resolution with some or all of the quality settings turned up. If I had a 4K monitor then maybe, just maybe I could have justified going for the Classified Kingpin just to eek out a few extra frames per second.

But I don’t have a 4K monitor yet and probably won’t until my next full build in about three or four years time. Not to mention that pricing has not even been announced for the Kingpin but it’d surely be a hefty premium on top of the existing lineup (I would guess GTX Titan territory).

So, I am steady in my selection of video card – it’s just a matter of finding the best price and pulling the trigger.

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