The last KINGPIN graphics card was the RTX 3090 Ti, and EVGA left the GPU business shortly after. For the overclocking world, that made the next chapter of Vince “KINGPIN” Lucido’s career a long-running mystery. The latest video on his Overclock Kingpin channel suggests the answer has a red-and-black color scheme.
In “I’m on ASUS Hardware Now!”, posted October 9, KINGPIN opens what he calls a huge box of ASUS hardware for overclocking and testing. The box includes:
- ROG Maximus Z890 Apex
- ROG Crosshair X870E Apex
- ROG Crosshair X870E BTF edition
- ROG Astral RTX 5090 BTF OC
- ROG Thor III 3000W power supply
The video also includes a section on his history with ASUS, which goes back to before his EVGA years. The video’s tags include Corsair as well, so ASUS isn’t the only company sending him gear.
He has not announced an ASUS KINGPIN product, and the video description is about hardware testing, not a partnership deal. But this is someone whose name was on EVGA’s flagship cards for most of a decade.
This also isn’t the first time a new partner has been floated. In 2024, KINGPIN was reportedly working with PNY on extreme-overclocking RTX 50 Series cards, and no such product ever reached market. Back when EVGA exited, we wondered where KINGPIN products might land. ASUS, with its own in-house overclocking team, wasn’t the obvious choice then.
ASUS’s top-end cards already chase records, and the ROG Astral RTX 5090 OC has set world records under LN2. A KINGPIN-designed ROG card would have to offer something beyond what ROG already does. That might mean the voltage control, power delivery, and serviceability that made EVGA’s KINGPIN cards favorites with extreme overclockers.
For now, the safe takeaway is that KINGPIN is overclocking again and his testing platform is ASUS. Any graphics card beyond that is still speculation, but it’s good speculation.
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