I wish I had a cool nickname like « Kingpin ». And a lab.
Pour one out for EVGA graphics cards. Back in September 2022, the company announced it would make no more, bringing to a close a run of rather performant and well-cooled GPUs, many of which were capable of some serious overclocking.
One of the figures behind some of those super-tweakable designs was Vince « Kingpin » Lucido, an extreme overclocker known for his all-black design ethos and his work with EVGA (via Videocardz). After EVGA’s exit, however, Lucido did seem like he was open to offers from other vendors.
Now that period is over, after exploring collaborations with some other big-name companies he’s now working with PNY on some of its latest designs.
Gamers Nexus’ Steve Burke got the chance to take a tour of the lab Lucido calls « Kingpin studios » in Taipei, a futuristic building that looks like a gigantic workshop of PC gaming dreams. In amongst his impressive array of hardware (and some fancy-looking electric bikes), Lucido explains why he chose to work with PNY over others.
