Famous overclocker Vince Lucido, known for his custom-made KINGPIN edition EVGA graphics cards, is coming back to overclocking after taking a three-year hiatus from the industry, starting when EVGA cut ties with NVIDIA and stopped making graphics cards. In a recent video, Lucido announced his official introduction back into the overclocking space with a new YouTube overclocking channel called Overclocking Kingpin.
Lucidio explained that he is only now coming back to the overclocking scene after being released from contractual obligations (likely from EVGA). Lucidio also revealed that ASUS was the one to bring him back to the overclocking scene, noting that without their constant persistence, he likely would have never gotten back into overclocking.
KINGPIN is one of the most renowned overclockers in the PC industry, known for his record-breaking overclocks, especially in the early 2000s with liquid nitrogen cooling. EVGA began employing Lucido around this time, which eventually led to EVGA making flagship GeForce graphics cards based on his handle. The last KINGPIN graphics card that was officially produced was the RTX 3090 Ti KINGPIN Hybrid.
After EVGA was forced to let him go in 2022 (when the company shut down its GPU division), KINGPIN announced plans to join PNY and help potentially build high-end GeForce graphics cards for the company. But his efforts were derailed due to contractual issues, preventing him from building a flagship RTX 50 series graphics card model for the brand.
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For KINGPIN fans, it will be a relief to know he is back in the overclocking game at least as a content creator. His discussions with ASUS management suggest that he also might be coming back to making graphics cards for ASUS potentially - only time will tell.
