These 2 boards are on my list of 5 under consideration. Beautiful boards EVGA! For looks I do give a preference to the KINGPIN.

Gives DDR5 time to pump out some higher XMP numbers, so I'm fine with waiting a bit to grab my 12900k and a KPE. 

Really miss EVGA boards, JUST got my SR-2 Classified board thats going into my caselabs project I'm working on. 

Have there been talks of release date?

Please give us an approximate ETA for these MOBOs!  I have almost everything I need including a 12900k for MSRP!  The only thing I need for my build is a MOBO and ddr5 RAM.  If I have to wait too long, Ill go with another brand, but my nearly 12 year old MOBO is an EVGA, which makes me a fan, because of how reliable it has been!

 
Do either of the Z690 boards have a 2-pin thermal header? Please say they remembered this time... but I don't see one on the currently available images.
 

Nereus

ilukeberry
WE NEED ETA ON THE MOBOS!!!! I need to upgrade from 9900K to 12900K!

Late this year is what I heard. Considering supply constraints, I would not be surprised if that ends up into early 2022 though.
 

@EVGA_JacobF gave me this response on Twitter. ETA is Dec.

skyline090

eckorichg

Nereus

ilukeberry
WE NEED ETA ON THE MOBOS!!!! I need to upgrade from 9900K to 12900K!

Late this year is what I heard. Considering supply constraints, I would not be surprised if that ends up into early 2022 though.

@EVGA_JacobF gave me this response on Twitter. ETA is Dec.

Link to reply?

https://twitter.com/evga_...55241056367247361?s=21

Well my patience has been exhausted. My 12900k ships today and no confirmation from EVGA on board release dates or even preorder info for that matter. I have historically been an EVGA loyalist, but I'm not waiting around to find out release date and end up stuck in "queues" and no mobo until 2022 at some point.

I am not a fan of mobo manufacturers "teasing" their products alongside the actual processor release announcements and preorders and leaving consumers wondering "when" for weeks.

I still love you EVGA, but hope you take this feedback to heart and improve going forward. Good luck everyone!

Trigger pulled on Aorus Master.

ugh now Im just waiting on the evga dark kingpin and one of those blistering gskill z5 6000 or 7000 series and my build is complete!!

Looking to get this to go with my 12600k, be nice if coming soon was this week. Had to order an Asus for one computer, but want an EVGA board for my gaming pc

No boards on launch day? Everything else is already ordered. Unfortunately had to go with MSI for this build. I miss when EVGA was ahead of the curve.

Managed to score a 16gb set of crucial. The only thing I need to figure out is the bracket for my Corsair AIO.

Basically the same answer, but I just saw Jacob post this today when asked about the expected z690 Dark ETA:
 

Not until late this month/Dec.

 

Apollo1321
From the picture of the z690 Dark KP I just seen on Twitter, EVGA is using the same debug leds that are failing on the z590 Dark. Wish they would have just stuck with the ones on the z390 Dark, which are also only half the height of the new ones. 
 
On another note, Have a new in box sealed z590 Dark and a barely used 10900KF for sale now...

To be fair, we don't know if the debug LEDs are the actual cause of their own failure. It could have been a bad batch, a driving component could be bad instead, or they could have changed them to a different one that just looks identical. We won't know if there's a problem at all unless someone has one die or if EVGA actually addresses it. The problem is that a 7-segment display looks like a 7-segment display. If you showed me two right now and one was identical to the one on my motherboard, but the other was just a different brand, I'm not sure I could tell you which was which unless they had starkly different designs. Honestly, they could likely at any point just change the driver out to hit them with 25-50% less current and they'd still be plenty bright enough and likely never fail. They're way brighter than they need to be right now...at least on my board. I'm just saying that's a relatively easy fix and we'd never see the difference looking at a picture of the board. You'd have to have two boards next to each other and powered up.

Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR5 5200MHz Desktop Memory