evga4Eva99
Aww man! I got a notification from newegg that the Gskill z5 ddr 5600s were back in stock but i was 4 hours too late! Grrrrr. But what's weird is on the gskill website they've already listed the 6000s but newegg doesnt even have those!!

I don't think they were actually in stock.  I got the notification as well and checked immediately.  Sold Out.

I got lucky and (if you can say that) and got some G.Skill 5600 CL36 in a combo with an Aorus Master Z690. Not the best Motherboard or one I would choose, but it will have to do. Don't see an option to sell it for anywhere near retail.  I also earlier got a combo with OLOy DDR5 4800 and an asus Prime Z690-A. That one is going back to newegg.  I would love to get 32gb more g.skill 5600 but will be happy with what I have for now. 

Flybye
I can’t stop wondering….since reports indicate DDR5 shortages may exist until mid 2022, what good would it do EVGA to release DDR5 only boards now? Or could they either have DDR5 info we don’t know about or will they make a DDR4 variant?

Well, if they don't release this ASAP, they'll continue to have people say "I couldn't wait, I bought an XX brand mobo".

B0baganoosh

Flybye
I can’t stop wondering….since reports indicate DDR5 shortages may exist until mid 2022, what good would it do EVGA to release DDR5 only boards now? Or could they either have DDR5 info we don’t know about or will they make a DDR4 variant?

Well, if they don't release this ASAP, they'll continue to have people say "I couldn't wait, I bought an XX brand mobo".

I'm okay with this.   Just more Classy/Dark KP's avail when they do come out.

SunnyBeach
I got lucky and (if you can say that) and got some G.Skill 5600 CL36 in a combo with an Aorus Master Z690. Not the best Motherboard or one I would choose, but it will have to do. Don't see an option to sell it for anywhere near retail.  I also earlier got a combo with OLOy DDR5 4800 and an asus Prime Z690-A. That one is going back to newegg.  I would love to get 32gb more g.skill 5600 but will be happy with what I have for now. 

Any chance you still have the OLOy kit? I’m interested if you haven’t sent it back

SunnyBeach

zippytek

Any chance you still have the OLOy kit? I’m interested if you haven’t sent it back

I have started the return process and have it packed to give to UPS in the morning.  Its a combo that I have $600 in and the Asus Prime Z690-A. There is much better memory showing up in similar priced combo's at Newegg. I realize most don't have time to constantly check and respond to alerts from them fast enough. I just got lucky. Honestly I am still watching for a better combo as I am not that thrilled with the $500 Gigabyte Z690 Aorus Master. My processor just showed up today and the new Motherboard/Memory combo will be here Tuesday. I will just build it and be happy for now. 

No worries. I had a similar combo and was able to return only the board and got a refund. But as with any Newegg combo ymmv. I’m mostly after Hynix for LN2 and I believe oloy is Hynix. I have the Apex + z5 6000 combo coming this week myself. I sold the last kit from the other combo to a friend for msrp so he can play with 12th gen. Lots of folks just waiting on ddr5 to get moving. Have fun! Lmk if you might change your mind and let the ddr5 kit go.

As we're definitely coming up on release, I'm hoping EVGA gives a heads up this time before just surprise dropping the boards to the store. It has been met with angry responses every time they've done that with the recent motherboards.

I was lucky getting on the x570 dark queue list and got a board...but would love a z690...I'm guessing it will be entirely luck of the f5 refresh

SunnyBeach
Yesterday I tried to return the Gigabyte Z690 Aorus Master from my newegg combo order. No dice, I even ask customer support and was told I could only return the combo.  Today I was lucky to grab a MSI Z690 Carbon and some G.Skill DDR5 6000 CL40.  I will return my motherboard and DDR5 5600 CL36.  I have the Carbon I bought from Amazon that I planned to use but will return it and just wait for this order to arrive.  

nice score! congrats on the 6000 kit. and yep, i've had mixed results myself and from others telling similar stories about them accepting partials or not. why i said ymmv. i managed to get some preorder kingston fury from cdw earlier, it says shipping by christmas, so fingers crossed! enjoy :D

SunnyBeach
Yesterday I tried to return the Gigabyte Z690 Aorus Master from my newegg combo order. No dice, I even ask customer support and was told I could only return the combo.  Today I was lucky to grab a MSI Z690 Carbon and some G.Skill DDR5 6000 CL40.  I will return my motherboard and DDR5 5600 CL36.  I have the Carbon I bought from Amazon that I planned to use but will return it and just wait for this order to arrive.  

Anything you're using to track stock of the combo kits?  Every time I get a notification from nowinstock, they are gone.  Just luck of the draw?

SunnyBeach
I was at my computer when the nowinstock web page notify started barking. I clicked my saved search in newegg. I had seen what they put up before they can be ordered and knew which I was after. From the time of the first alert, there were combos up for 15m or so. This is the third time I have ordered a combo and all three times it was from the alert sounded from the nowinstock webpage you enable at the top of the list. 

I've been relying on Telegram alerts.  Guess those are slower.  To the webpage!

I was able to snag a Asus z690 hero with gskill 6000 c36 today. I originally ordered the asus apex board combo but saw the memory was the CL40 so cancelled that and was able to get the hero one after. It's shipped already (well label created, waiting on UPS now). I was originally planning to use one of these motherboards from evga but I think I might just use the hero. I think it's still very solid and it's what I have always used in the past. I have a 3090 kingpin so just wanted to pair it with kp mobo honestly. But I don't think i will tweak/overclock my 12900k enough for it to matter. I am doing a custom loop for the first time so that was why I was trying to kind of go all out but not sure I have it in me to mess with returning part of a combo, or continue to monitor nowinstock forever and/or fight with evga to get one of these. 
 
Sucks that this is still going on but after the hassle of GPU's and now DDR5 I think I will just go with it and enjoy gaming instead of worrying about other bs. 
 
Maybe I will upgrade to the KP when raptor lake comes out as I was planning to upgrade to that when it comes out probably. Usually I wait 2-3 years to upgrade systems but I have a bunch of friends who need new PC's so I could use that as an excuse. 

Jacob said December for z690 boards im wondering when? and a ram list would be nice so i can start shopping for ram at least
 

zippytek

deunan48
Jacob said December for z690 boards im wondering when? and a ram list would be nice so i can start shopping for ram at least

 
for ddr5? whatever you can buy, which is very little. 

I was going to say...I recommend getting whatever you can...ddr5 is a bloodbath out there. 

fragility_V1
Thanks to all for the Nowinstock tips.  I was able to grab a DDR5 combo with the G.Skill 6000 C36 kit.  Unfortunately, it was with a Z690 Strix, which I have no intention of keeping, so will just sell it at a losss.  But I have my RAM.  Now just need the Dark and can begin the teardown and rebuild.

 
With how much you are saving by getting the ram at a reasonable price the loss on the mobo is minor. I was originally going to sell the z690 hero I got with my 6000 cl36 gskill and get the kindpin board but I just don't think I will gain a whole lot by doing that. Plus selling stuff is a pain. Good work though, the ram is the tough part!