EVGA_JacobF There are a couple of reasons why this wouldn't work well, yes the card was really designed for extreme cooling, but there are a few reasons why shipping it "extreme cooling" ready would not be ideal:



1. A waterblock would add at least $100 to the MSRP (over the air cooler). What about users who go LN2 or already have a universal block?

2. You may ask why not ship with no cooler? This is a challenge too, the product must be tested at the factory, so a cooler needs to be on there at some point, and removing it is extra labor. Also is the same story if the product ever needs to be RMA'd.



An air cooler is really the ideal solution in this situation.

I can understand that reasoning easily but in a way I wonder. this is only something you guys can know but how many people actually GO LN2 of the people buying this. I would think not that many since people who use LN2 are hardcore benchers anyway and if you go on THAT level of benching you most likely got sponsorship and/or don't care about the 100+ cost.I would think most people who buy this fall outside of the catagory of LN2 users. Since most people I have seen buying classified cards and the highest ranked models of GPUs(outside of EVGA forums especially) just use the aircooling and don't bother with watercooling since with nvidia's voltage lock there isn't really stupid amounts of heat being made. The kingpin with it's unlocked voltage and all the fancy stuff will create more heat than normal...except for maybe AMD cards :laugh:. so a hybrid would of been nice to have.Now jacob don't consider this as a insult or rant to EVGA. I have heard alot of good stuff about you guys and if everything goes well I will probably buy either a Ti classi or kingpin depending on what is ready to ship.Most likely Kingpin since I just unlocked my 680's bios to 150% voltage(should be) and that bit of extra voltage sure increased my clocks so yeah unlimited POWEEEEEEEEEEEEEER is fun.PS: Since I can't find it easily. is the 780Ti classified voltage locked or not?