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Dabadger84
If anyone gets ahold of an AMD 5900x & is willing to sell it for a reasonable price to someone that's actually going to put it to good use, I'm willing to pay a reasonable amount for your acquirement of it - got my motherboard choice for the X570 build path picked, just need a CPU, and with all the stories of the 5800x being a hotbox of a CPU, I'm not really interested in buying that as a temporary CPU until I can get my hands on a higher end one.
 
Good luck on the drops guys!

On your KP, did you switch out the fans and I am looking at the noctua F12's to replace mine.

I already bought a set of EK Vardar EVO fans to replace the original fans.  Hoping to get the KP by the end of this month...btw, congratulations on your KP!

Thank you. Is there a reason you went with the EK's over Noctua's? I am trying to keep it under 50c. also weirdly enough I am drawing up to 549w in the LN2 Bios but yet noticing once it goes past 50c it will lower the scores, even with stable higher clocks.

Yes.  My brother had the F12's in his computer and I was not impressed with the flow/noise performance.  I replaced it with the EK, and it gave much better flow/noise performance in terms of heat dissipation on his AIO.

Roger that I’ll give that a look into on those. I’m in the middle of replacing all of the fans in my DG-85. It provides a lot of airflow but that don’t mean much when the fans are not giving enough flow.

You should also compare the flow rate, but most importantly the static pressure.  High flow rate and low static pressure is not good for radiators; that's good for cases.

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Dabadger84
If anyone gets ahold of an AMD 5900x & is willing to sell it for a reasonable price to someone that's actually going to put it to good use, I'm willing to pay a reasonable amount for your acquirement of it - got my motherboard choice for the X570 build path picked, just need a CPU, and with all the stories of the 5800x being a hotbox of a CPU, I'm not really interested in buying that as a temporary CPU until I can get my hands on a higher end one.
 
Good luck on the drops guys!

On your KP, did you switch out the fans and I am looking at the noctua F12's to replace mine.

I already bought a set of EK Vardar EVO fans to replace the original fans.  Hoping to get the KP by the end of this month...btw, congratulations on your KP!

Thank you. Is there a reason you went with the EK's over Noctua's? I am trying to keep it under 50c. also weirdly enough I am drawing up to 549w in the LN2 Bios but yet noticing once it goes past 50c it will lower the scores, even with stable higher clocks.

Yes.  My brother had the F12's in his computer and I was not impressed with the flow/noise performance.  I replaced it with the EK, and it gave much better flow/noise performance in terms of heat dissipation on his AIO.

Roger that I’ll give that a look into on those. I’m in the middle of replacing all of the fans in my DG-85. It provides a lot of airflow but that don’t mean much when the fans are not giving enough flow.

Oh wow.  Thanks for the info on the fans!  I have been scouting out those same type of fans for that very same reason.  Gonna ditch the 3 on the AIO and replace them, also.  The irony is, I literally, just an hour ago, received the Noctua fans I ordered.  Going to try them out on my CPU AIO and see if they are worthy of residing on the Kingpin.  I have never heard of EK and it looks like they might be getting my business shortly.  $50 for a fan?  If it does what is said they do, it'd be worth it to me.   Again, thanks for the info.

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If anyone gets ahold of an AMD 5900x & is willing to sell it for a reasonable price to someone that's actually going to put it to good use, I'm willing to pay a reasonable amount for your acquirement of it - got my motherboard choice for the X570 build path picked, just need a CPU, and with all the stories of the 5800x being a hotbox of a CPU, I'm not really interested in buying that as a temporary CPU until I can get my hands on a higher end one.
 
Good luck on the drops guys!

On your KP, did you switch out the fans and I am looking at the noctua F12's to replace mine.

They say a picture can say a thousand words, here's two:
 


 
The stock fans on the Kingpin radiator are utter garbage, highly recommend replacing them with "anything" else.  I have 6 EK Vardars in Push/Pull, at idle they run at ~950RPM which is completely silent & still lets the card idle in the 22-24C range on GPU main temp readout, under load, they ramp up quite a bit, but I'm not a noise snob so it doesn't bug me, I game with headphones on, so them getting up in to the 1800-2000RPM range really doesn't bug me that much at all.  And they only get that high when it's under heavy load (fan speed is adjusted based on GPU radiator exhaust temp).

How far have you been able to push the KP with that? Also, using the classified tool or jump on the XOC bios.

zerocool101
Welp, just over 1 month and now my KPE pump is making grinding noises... Waiting for RMA and I called in and they said I'd be getting a refurb KPE...that's just crap 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUMAx88ogwU

You'd think they'd offer to see if you're willing to just swap the AIO yourself & send you a new unit without having to exchange the whole card.  If the pump is the problem, they could either swap the AIO out at their facilities, or if you're comfortable doing it, let you.  Kinda silly that's not an option tbh - if the card itself is fine, why not do that.  I'd ask them & see if they'll give you that option - that is, if you can go without the card for a bit.
 
I wouldn't be able to do that because I literally don't have a backup GPU, I'd have to run on my CPU IGP which does not get along with this monitor apparently (last time I tried to output video from my motherboard's output to this monitor it just kept cycling on and off like there was signal then there isn't) - something I need to look in to for sure, getting a backup that can serve temporarily should the need arise.

Congrats on your new card, but this is the kingpin queue thread.  Not sure how you got your card if it was through the queue or the stepup program but I'm sure those in those queues would appreciate you sharing your info in the appropriate thread.  Enjoy your new card though and don't forget to register it for the warranty.  

Well guys, looks like it's going to be slow for the next couple of weeks.  Anyone hear back from Steven who is position 1 if he was able to order his Kingpin?  I would imagine EVGA would work with him on it, but would be nice to hear back from him.  On the bright side, I just got my new Asus X570 Dark Hero mobo today.  My case came in this past weekend so now all I'm waiting on is a hydro-copper Kingpin or the hybrid.  Have to decide how I want to do my case for now.  I can just move all my stuff in and change out the PSU, Mobo, and CPU into the new case.  But I can also start with my open loop system in addition to the other new parts, I'm thinking of running soft tubes for now and cycling both 360mm rads I have in preparation for my full open loop system.  Once i get a hydro copper card I already have the hard tube and fittings for it. 
 
I did have fun rebuilding a friends Intel I9-850 based pc this past weekend.  It's kinda fun working on pcs especially when you don't have to pay for the parts or make a living doing it either.  
 
Best of luck to everyone waiting in the queues or step ups.  I'm trying not to follow the list for the kingpin too much as I keep moving back everytime I look.  Have a great week.  

Can I be added to the list please

Hmm, nothing this week ? Hope for next week I guess.

akafats
Hmm, nothing this week ? Hope for next week I guess.

Yeah a really doubt that we will see any drops this week.  I am thinking that we will see a drop mid next week and hoping that it will be a sizeable one, for all our sakes.

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Toieo
April 16th price hike... ugh. Still bitter as hell about it. I was in before the announcement, really not fair. We should be grandfathered in due to lack of stock. It's not our fault

KPE's average every 3 weeks and generally on Wednesdays. I would expect the next drop to be next week (March 31st). Crossing fingers for today though.

I agree that we can expect a drop mid next week, but it's well pass the drop time for the KPE.  There have been some drops for other SKUs already, around 10:20 am PT or so.

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Toieo
April 16th price hike... ugh. Still bitter as hell about it. I was in before the announcement, really not fair. We should be grandfathered in due to lack of stock. It's not our fault

Yeah I'm hoping they drop another batch before then and hope I get one before the price hike

Honestly the $70 price hike is nothing in comparison to places like Newegg selling all newly stocked 3090's $500+ over MSRP. And that's directly from Newegg too, not even 3rd party sellers. Don't forget that KPE's are going for like $3000+ on Ebay too with bids.

I think that is what people forget about the queues and what EVGA did with their prices.  They could have just hiked the prices all together back in January, but they allowed for some to get the previous price.  I am still waiting and it's more than likely a sure thing that I wont get my new card before the price hike.  But the glass is still half full that EVGA didn't go full crazy with their price hike like some of the other companies did.  Asus and MSI cost went up a couple hundred dollars for each of their higher end cards so as much as I would like to have the lower price, I do appreciate the fact that atleast some of us got their new cards with the grandfathered prices.  It is more than again most companies would do, so I do give credit to EVGA for trying.  They can't eat that increased cost for everyone, but in our case atleast it's a more bearable than those other companies.  

Hi - Figured I would add my name to the list.
I already have a 3090 FTW3 Ultra that I converted to Hybrid, so I'm not in a rush, but I put my name in the queue for a KP on:
 
2-26-21 at 4:40pm
 
(I canceled my queue for the 3080, but apparently, I never did for the 3090s, and haven't yet received a notify from 11/24/20 at 8:40 am.)
 

well if its every 3 weeks that  should be next week but I hope a few drop tomorrow

Deuces56

kraade
well if its every 3 weeks that  should be next week but I hope a few drop tomorrow

kraade
well if its every 3 weeks that  should be next week but I hope a few drop tomorrow

Yeah im hoping for either tomorrow or next week at the latest 

 
Feels like next week...at the earliest....