This board is smart move. Price is not so high and board is from high segment.
Next time EVGA should launch immediately something like that. 
Because FTW board don't have some important stuff and Classified is to expensive for many people.
And price around 250-260$ is more acceptable. Even better when EVGA for such price offer board from high class as Z170 Classified K.
Classified is premium but as I say too expensive for most people who decide to go with Z170 chipset.
EVGA should use same strategy as for power supplies and with nice price, nice design plus many features to attract customers.
 
If every year EVGA offer one premium board and other high end board with only little less functions but with all most important things for around 250$ customers will decide to go with them more and more instead Deluxe, Pro, Gaming and similar boards. 
 
 
 

Any news or ETA when it will be back in stock? I have applied for step up for this board and was wondering if I'm looking at days or weeks of waiting. I recognize that even if it does come back into stock I'm not guaranteed to get one depending on how large the queue is for step up but still am curious.
 
Edit: I see that they are in stock now

From what I've read the Killer port is basically there for LAN parties... I'm thinking it really wasn't meant for use online

Sorry... MT

Just bought this board great so far

This board is awsome :)

Any ETA on when this will be available in Australia? No retailers, Distributors or EVGA have them in stock

ketzer7
Was really excited when I first saw this board a few moments ago - seemed to address all of the PCIe layout and M.2 slot issues the full Classified had.
 
That was until I realized that the SLI slots on this board are the first two x16s, i.e. PE1 and PE2, instead of PE1 and PE4 like everyone else seems to do it.  Means with two vid cards installed they are sandwiched right up against one another.   Not sure why they decided to do this when the slot layout was already perfect for making PE1 and PE4 the x8 slots for SLI.
 
Really bums me out because it checked all the right boxes for me, except this one big oversight that ruins it.

 
oh FFS!!!! I just ordered this board with a new skylake i7 and 2 1080 FTWs..... Didn't even bother to check that as I wouldn't have believed eVGA would do such a thing..... Can't return the CPU either.... I really don't want to use a board from another company. How much of a performance hit would I take placing a 1080 on a x4 slot?

Pathway
This board is awsome :)

It's not so expensive board, I see people overclock nice their i7-6700K.
i7-7700K Kaby Lake will be compatible with Z170. 
Nice processor number i7-7700K, 7 is my lucky number.
i7-7700K will work on 3.6GHz but Turbo Boost will be fantastic if rumors are true, 4.2GHz, 600MHz increase. 
Intel should optimize i7-6700K to work on 4.4GHz Turbo, but anyway most people keep him on 4.5GHz or more...

Well, I just bought mine today figure it will be interesting with a 970. graphic card. .. Cant wait to get it on friday... just hope I didnt forget anything.
 
will be a nice update from my i7 920 and 760 vid card.. poor thing is over five years old now figure its time to retire it to the office.