wodell757
Well i'm far down the list 10:02:04 AM but I dont even have the stuff to hook up it up so Now I have to find pump, rad, hoses, reservoir and coolant.  
Could use some hints what everyone is going to use and might wait too see what yall use to see how the temps are.  

I'm going with 7 radiators in push/pull, 4 pumps, 65 fans. Tubbing is Tygon A-60-G and will be using Mayhems XTR fluid, least when I can order some in

pcgamerv2

Dabadger84
 
Speaking of, does the Kingpin AIO actually fit other 3090s?  That'd be kind of neat if it does, extra cooling power with a 360 vs 240mm radiator hybrid vs hybrid... or taking a lower tier 3090 & sticking a 360 AIO on it.  Only downside would be you'd need VRM cooling, since the Kingpin VRM heatsinks only work on the KP card.

You should mount the stock AIO on the rear VRAM 

Honestly I think that'd be inferior to the setup I have now.  Could be wrong, but I don't think there's any way to test that because the screws only go one way on the AIO mount, I'm not as in to customizing & some of the people on here that have done such crazy things, though I do find them awesome, I won't venture that far.  I want my warranty as intact as possible until I ditch the card in probably 2 years from this last January.
 

fragility_V1

Dabadger84
I'm really curious how many blocks actually are going out today/how many they had ready to go.  I'd be shocked if it is north of 500, and not surprised if it was 100 or less.

Since it seems only a few folks posted they got the invite to buy, and the day is closing on the west coast (shipping deadline I think is like 3 or 4), it feels like the number was way less than 100.  I'm thinking like 10s.

I don't see why they'd even bother launching the block if they didn't have at least a hundred.  It could also be that their shipping was heavy enough today that they didn't send out all the invites for the blocks they have available.
Similar bit happened to my Kingpin card, when it was first supposed to ship, the label got torn off, so it was returned to eVGA, and they couldn't ship it back out because there was no more allocation for the day on shipping out stuff I guess.  That was a whole ordeal though, originally they cancelled the order because of the shipping label thing but I got ahold of them & made sure they knew I 100% wanted the card so I wasn't going to accept it being cancelled & refunded, even if they would allow me re-purchase after the refund was in my account.  I'm glad they worked it out with the warehouse to get the card that originally shipped sent back out to me without having to redo things.
But if today was a heavy queue day, which I have no idea if it was or not, it's possible they didn't have room to ship all the blocks they had available at once.  It could also be that because it was Elite Members only, they had a lower number of blocks initially available to ship with more on the way.  We'll never know unless we get some insight in to how many were actually at their warehouse today.
 
 
But seriously, if they had less than 100, why even launch the product.  I get that it's a niche product for a niche card, but that would still be absurd knowing they've sold at least 1-2 thousand Kingpins on the queue system at this point (that's a guess, but I'd wager it's pretty accurate), only offering blocks for less than 10% of what you've sold knowing people that buy Kingpins are high-end users that would want to liquid cool their card if they're not doing LN2 etc isn't a business decision I see eVGA making.  I wouldn't be surprised if a LOT of the orders before me & the other guy were bots, that will hopefully get rejected, which means the blocks will roll over to the next people.  I don't see how it would be possible to get in much quicker than the guy that was at 10:00:05, given the Captcha literally takes at least 2-3 seconds to spin & go to check mark so you can submit.  At least it always has for me on any "I am not a robot" checker thing.
 
Any blocks on EBay yet? Lol
 
Edit: Nope, still no blocks on EBay.  Good.  Hopefully they're going to people that are actually going to use them.

Jkim157

Can't read it lol

Jkim157

mech9t5

Jkim157

Can't read it lol

whoops, I asked when the emails would go out, and Jacob said some went out today.
Not sure if some means 1 though LOL

ehh that jokes getting old.  Pretty sure they have a small batch shipping out.

Jkim157
Literally so sad the batch was this small. I was expecting a bit more tbh. 10:00:07 right here. I thought I was going to get the email today

Same here. I thought they have like 40-50 blocks :-/

as of the time of this post...
pclausen - 10:00:05 AM PT - PURCHASED
Debadger84 - 10:00:06 AM PT - PURCHASED
Dingdong123 - 10:00:06 AM PT
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400-HC-1999-B1 4/23/2021 10:00:15 AM PT

lifeisshort117
All I do is watercooling, and $300 is insanely overpriced for an Asetek made block. There's not even an upgraded backplate included. You could get a reference PCB block with an actively cooled backplate for less than this.
 
EVGA knows there will be demand for this product, so why not easily take advantage of that? We've been waiting for quite a while already.
 
Wonder if they just wanted to get ahead of Optimus? They're the only other ones working on a block for the KPE.

I'm sure the Optimus block will be quite a bit better too and with a quality backplate.  Unfortunately, we still have a bit of a wait for that block.

Same here since I'm a little late to the order queue.  I have a Optimus on order for my 3090 that I should be getting on Monday.  From the looks and user reports they are really good.  Can't wait to see how they are in person and once mounted in my pc in an open loop set up.  

They said 6-8 weeks at the beginning of April/end of March for strix blocks and “a few weeks after for KP” the race is on to see whether they can beat EVGA to my 32second sign up spot...

gamlastan

Gamlastan

alpharius194
They said 6-8 weeks at the beginning of April/end of March for strix blocks and “a few weeks after for KP” the race is on to see whether they can beat EVGA to my 32second sign up spot...

If I remember correctly, it took ~3 months to deliver the first batch of FTW blocks?
So worst case it could be after the launch of the next-gen card?

Mr. Fox

zerocool101
400-HC-1999-B1 4/23/2021 10:00:15 AM PT

Looks like we both beat quite a few people to the punch, yet I do not see either of our names on the list. That's definitely not OK.
Here's my timestamp:
400-HC-1999-B1 4/23/2021 10:00:27 AM PT No

 
The list is only as good as people SELF reporting.... 

I understand the issues with not being able to ship sufficient GPU's, chip shortage is real, but this is ridiculous .. is a stupid WB, why you need to wait in a queue for it I don't understand. 
 
anyway - 
400-HC-1999-B14/23/2021 10:05:35 AM PTNo