As I can't buy one of these as they simply just don't exist in the UK, what is my alternatives on the market? 
 
I'm not an hardcore over-clocker or anything like that, but I do like to tweak and play, but the main reason I was wanting this board was because of the quality, I also like the fact it was a black board with no RGB crap and Its hard to find.. Simply looking at other boards at similar price points don't seem to match the quality of this board.  Mainly in the VRM's. but then comes with loads of RGB crap.
 
So what can I buy? I've looked at something like the Gigabyte Extreme, as looking at the Asus line seems just overpriced.  Not really interested in the FTW Z390.
 
I've been trying for about a month now, I give up trying to find the Dark Z390.
 
Frustrating when you have money to spend and you just can't buy one for no love or money.
 

Cool GTX
You can also check the Official EVGA eBay Store  - Your still buying direct from EVGA ?     
 
Note, just checked - I did not see any in stock
Official EVGA eBay Store
or EVGA.com in North America either
 
 
What CPU do you have ?
 

Thanks for the response, I've tried everyone, called around, no one is interested in helping me find one so its a bit of a dead end.  I've had the notification set for about a month, and I did it again last week with no luck (even though I have to buy from Europe, as its in Euros, not pounds).
 
I do not have a CPU, I'm building a fresh machine to take advantage of the I9 9900k, I'm holding off buying water cooler rads and stuff until I know which board I'm going for, so this is frustrating etc.
 
I have only bought a case, the Lain-li 011 air, and that's about it!
 
I don't understand why the other Dark board is in stock but not the Z390, I would say popularity but I don't know anyone that has actually bought one lol

bcavnaugh
I am still waiting for the Dark myself, I hope within the next week or so here un the USA that EVGA will have new stock on their website.
We all just need to keep waiting if we want this Motherboard.

I don't mind waiting, but its the "No, we can't get it, and never will" from all suppliers... IF someone said it would be 6 weeks then I would be fine, but everyone I've spoken too has basically said "good luck with that". 
 
by the time I get one 10nm chips will be on discount lol
 

So what are my other options other than not building this pc :D (or waiting)

bcavnaugh

superclarkey
So what are my other options other than not building this pc :D (or waiting)

In Stock, B&H has International Shipping Shows 3 In Stock
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1454235-REG/evga_131_cs_e399_kr_z390_dark_lga_1151.html

Thanks just hit them up on chat, a few problems, apparently the US version is different, and there is no global warranty. So I buy it at my own risk... once it leaves the states its my problem.
 
Apparently different power supply required? but I think that is referring to the transformer not the board. Said the wifi was different band.
 
So not really an option, however I was prepared to pay whatever for it then.  
 
This sucks.. lol

Maybe this is a sign to just get an x570 board with an Ryzen 9 3950x if i’m going to wait.... (or tomorrow a 3900x) (don’t know how well evga gpus work with amd though)

I just said that out-loud

Fear not, we'll be having some more here soon.

That's it all it took, mention I might be going AMD and someone responses :D haha

Cool GTX
This is Mostly a User to User support Forum
 
EVGA employees try to read many of the Posts, however they cannot read all of them
 
The Best way to get a Quick & Official reply from EVGA = https://www.evga.com/about/contactus/
 


Looks like your planning a nice Build
 
Have you downloaded the Z390 Dark Manual to read about the MB & help you plan how you will use the 16 PCIe lanes ?
 


My opinion is that ---> the X299 Darks are in stock because the CPUs that fit that socket are very Expensive

Thanks,
 
I'm British so I'm being sarcastic and taking the mick, so not really being serious here lol
 
 
 
I haven't contacted EVGA directly, as I don't even think they had a base here in the uk, as the site is Europe, so I've contacted all the retailers on the site and they all basically said the same thing, no more coming.. so might be worth EVGA letting them know if this isn't discontinued.
 
I will only be running one GPU, Kingpin 2080Ti, on water loop, but until I can buy a board I'm not buying anything.
 
The Z390 Dark looks like the ideal board for what I want to do, and isn't RGB mad, but the VRM's are quality which is important to me.
 
As for PCIe lanes, I know I can only run 1x GPU in 16x, anything else will make it 8x, I understand the chipset uses its PCIe lanes for SSD M.2's.
 
My biggest issue with z390, I think even the really expensive boards (other than EVGA Dark) don't match the price tag.  Looking at the likes of Gigabyte X570 boards for the Ryzen chips (specially the master and extreme) look like amazing boards, but I'm ONLY looking because I can't get a Z390 Dark.
 
Clearly then I can't use a EVGA GPU, which will suck.   Can't have my cake and eat it I guess.
 
I would happily spend more for an 9980XE chip if it was better (so that I can use the x299 Dark)... enough said.
 
I can currently get an I9 9900K for £400 so keen to go this route... so looks like I'll email EVGA and see what is what as my retails are not interested and want to sell me a Asus.. great.
 
Thanks for the reply though :D 

Ordered a Gigabyte Z390 Extreme in the end. Gutted.

Bought the board through amazon so if in the next 30days a dark turns up I’ll return this, if not I would like to actually build my system :) so just go to crack on.

Didn’t want to miss the i9 9900k for £404 delivered as seemed a solid price.

Did you not like the Gigabyte Z390 Extreme?

I have got myself the msi z390 godlike half a year ago. Apart from the 6.3mm audio jack buzzing, the board has been rock solid. It sustained excessive amount of stress I threw at it, like prime95 with AVX running for days, and cpu hitting 105-100C in prime for several hours all sorts of configurations and voltages. Really this board is solid. Seems like it can chew through any benchmark for as long as you want it to and sustain any stress with ease and feels like it was built to do exactly that. Wish it had less unnesessary things like 3 dacs onboard and the useless bundled capture card... And wish it had a really working ess sabre chip.
I noticed that in Europe, including Russia, evga is barely present. I wonder why? lol

Impressive damage ... delivered by UPS by chance ?

Yeah, and we just pushed E399 back in stock now here on EVGA.com.  >.<
 
I'm still trying to follow up on availability for EU for the OP.