KINGPIN: NVIDIA Forced 1 Connector on RTX 3090 Ti [2026]

Vince “KINGPIN” Lucido, the extreme overclocker behind EVGA’s most aggressive graphics cards, says NVIDIA tried to strip a power connector off his flagship board right before launch, and the fallout limited how many units ever reached buyers. The claim, made in a video on his Overclocking Kingpin YouTube channel and first reported by Wccftech on October 11, 2026, reopens a dispute that EVGA fans have whispered about for years: why did the EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti K|NGP|N HYBRID arrive three months late, and why did so few of them exist.

Lucido’s account, corroborated by VideoCardz and Hardware Busters, puts a name and a date on a long-running grievance in the high-end GPU community. NVIDIA, he says, pushed EVGA to cut the KINGPIN HYBRID down to a single 12VHPWR connector late in development. EVGA shipped the card with two 16-pin connectors anyway, but Lucido says the back-and-forth derailed the production schedule and choked supply of a card that overclockers had been…