courtesy of TiN of course. If you
don’t have a Raspberry Pi, you may
resort to other means as well. So
there is more than one way to
configure the card's behaviour, more
ways than any other GPU on the
market provides. This is all public
information and made available for
all who may have bought the card
or are looking to invest in one. It
is in stark contrast to the MSI GTX
980 Ti Lightning which is unusable
without the MSI AfterBurner extreme
application. The problem with this
application is that it is only available
via special channels and requests.
Thus, if you buy the card on a store
shelf, it is literally no different
from the other GTX 980 Ti cards on
the market and its limits are near
identical. For the EVGA card you’ll
have none of that nonsense, your
card is truly yours to do with as you
please and those world records
and top scores used to promote the
graphics card are well within your
reach as well. It is also in contrast
to the GALAX cards which at any
given point have several different
revisions where retail cards are
not capable of reaching any of the
frequencies used to market them. It
is in light of this that EVGA has easily
the best GTX 980 Ti for competitive
overclocking. Perhaps the models
from ASUS are the closest in
competition as they, up to date seem
to be free from all the previously
mentioned caveats. That is
something we will have to confirm
for ourselves, but as it stands there
simply isn’t any other card on the
market that is as ready as this one
for competitive overclocking with
liquid nitrogen.
CONCLUSION
If you couldn’t tell already, this is by
far the most impressive overclocking
card we have ever come across.
Time and time again we looked for
better alternatives, but we could
not find them. We then searched
for equivalents and they were not
there. Is this a perfect card, no it
isn’t. There simply isn’t such a thing
in existence, but it is the best that
money can buy and it is precisely why
the price is more than justified. As
capable as the GTX 980 Ti KPE is in a
gaming context, it is really wasted in
that environment as more than half
of the engineering effort is directly
concerned with LN2 overclocking. Be
it you’ll use it for LN2 or not, you’ll be
happy to know that your card really
can achieve these stratospheric
clock speeds when called upon.
Once you’ve bought this card, there’s
pretty much nothing else you need
other than a liquid nitrogen container
and liquid nitrogen. There isn’t
any other card that can claim this.
From where we stand this is by far
the most impressive competitive
overclocking card that has ever
existed. In today’s market with
everything that is available, this is by
far the leading graphics card and
without hesitation earns our highest
accolades. This one is a must have,
especially if you’re serious about
your overclocking.
[ The Overclocker ]
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