After EVGA's abrupt exit from the GPU space, high-profile Vince Lucido, aka Kingpin, seemingly took a hiatus from the PC overclocking scene, aside from briefly working with PNY on a planned RTX 50-series launch before scrapping the project. Now, as per a recent video update on his YouTube channel, Lucido has found another hardware partner for his signature overclocking GPUs in ASUS.
In the update, Lucido confirms that he has "some really sick hardware from ASUS and Corsair to start with," and that he has had "numerous talks" with high-level management at ASUS, which are what ultimately persuaded him to get back into the overclocking industry. He has promised that whatever he has planned for PC overclocking will appear on the Overclock Kingpin YouTube channel, which has no published videos at the time of writing.
In the video, Kingpin alludes to contractual obligations keeping him from working in the GPU industry between his split with EVGA and the announcement of the new channel and his return to overclocking, although he declined to specify what those obligations were. Kingpin is most widely known for his work on the EVGA Kingpin graphics cards, but it's unclear whether his collaboration with ASUS will result in a new ASUS Kingpin GPU.
Source: TechPowerUp News · Summarized by HeadlinesBriefing