Yesterday. Heh kidding, In this day and age I don’t know. Anyones guess.

binarymonk01
Will there be a new high-performance EVGA closed loop cpu cooler (CLC) released around the same time as the z690 kingpin for the LGA1700 socket (that would fit in a DG-8 case for example)?

It's my understanding they will have LGA1700 brackets for their existing CLCs.  Likely no new designs for the CLC.  

echonight
I'm loosing my hopes for this mobo to come out any time soon it might not come out till March or April, I'm gona get me a Asus extreme and change it when the evga z690 come out.

If you're going for the Dark, save a few bucks and go with the Apex.  Extreme is overkill and Apex supposedly has better OC abilities.

Returned the z690 Hero as well, getting a Apex...I can't wait any longer for the Dark.

last time i built a system i promised my next MOBO would be an EVGA. JUST 2day; after deciding to build z690 2+ weeks ago; i discovered this thread. SWEET!
 
Again EVGA has solved my probs. TY EVGA! (my old fav brand MOBO can't cut it anymore in the way of their unofficial forum is too lacky these days. They were great for a while,  but EVGA all the way now... MOBO/Vid Card/ PSU and eventually all the rest for me will be EVGA!!!)

Was wanting to wait for these boards to come out to make an informed purchase decision before pulling the trigger on any board. I'm mulling over the APEX and Aorus Master, I'm leaning APEX except for the oddities some people have reported with getting memory to run at XMP on that board where other boards have no problem, which I'd say is odd for users to be having that experience with a high end ASUS board. If I've misread / misunderstood this scenario with the APEX please correct me.
 
Also in regards to the release timeline slippage on the EVGA boards I'm left scratching my head. Initially EVGA was saying possibly later November though most likely December, that to me provided confidence that EVGA would be to market in December. Now it's January or February. If the delay is to work on the BIOS issues that came to light as EVGA got the opportunity to work with more hardware then cool, if the delay is something else I'm left scratching my head at what that could be given the level of perceived confidence that was given towards a December launch.
 
Also curious on others opinion around what they feel the equivalent spec of DDR4 3600 CL16 RAM will be for DDR5, I've been trying to figure this out and have some thoughts though curious what other's thoughts are.

Always crickets from EVGA till you see a queue page open up and BOOM OOS 

I recently purchased a 360 mm loop cooler and it shipped with the lga 1700 brackets
 

I also snagged some G-Skill 5600mhz DDR5 (36-36-36-76) for $460 here. Now waiting for the eVga Z690 Classified to come out.
https://www.memoryc.com/c...ddr5.html#Availability

how do we join the queue to wait for these? 

Sleeek

Nereus
 
Starting to wonder if either of these boards will be ever be released, lol - figured the Z690 Classy would be out by now for sure, but nope. The KP Dark.. who knows? Maybe a month or two? The 12900k was released beginning of November 2021.
 

Question: the i9-12900KF and the i9-12900K both have (8P+8E) -- so isn't there an intel CPU with 16P on the way?  
TY! :-)

https://youtu.be/idgd5935wyQ the time might be sooner for the classy

Apollo1321
Maybe in two gens might have 16 p cores. But I doubt that early.

Wouldnt expect big changes with Raptor Lake, but 2023 Meteor Lake on 7nm could bring some bigger changes such as more P Cores

lilGOOSEE
 
 
Jayz two cents just posted a video showing the z690 classified board. Hope this means they're almost ready.

Here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idgd5935wyQ&t=625s
 
Have to agree with him...the big yellow caps ...why?!
Overall I like the looks of it...still unsure why dual QCode's...perhaps in BIOS one of em can be set up to indicate CPU or Chipset temp, while the other is post code.