Wow and now a price increase on the micro????!!!!

Anyone with experience dealing with EVGA have a sense of how long they take to restock their products? I really want an z370 FTW board but none of the retailers are giving any kind of indication about whether it will be back in stock anytime soon, it just says "currently unavailable".Think there's any chance of more stock ahead of Christmas?

Some people have right.
I think EVGA should not give Classified name just like that.
Example ASUS Matrix you will not find every year or on every product.
EVGA Classified could be and mATX motherboard and graphic card with AIO, but they should be premium products.
 
 
 
 

Well, since the EVGA suggestions portion of their website is down, 
 
Just got done building my most recent computer. This build, I learned about how awesome of a company EVGA is from doing research about the companies themselves and interacting with them on advising me what I'd actually need to power what I wanted to do. I was somewhat disappointed yet still pleased to find out EVGA builds motherboards in addition to everything else. I was disappointed because I had already bought an MSI motherboard without knowing EVGA does motherboards, and I tried to do as much EVGA in this build as I could:
 

 
Be advised, I am not an expert in computer design or building or anything else related to that field. I just really enjoy building computers and playing games on them and running the occasional physics simulation. This is simply an idea I had while reflecting on my most recent build and after looking at the X299 DARK board in a promotional email I got. 
 
I have a suggestion for EVGA motherboards if it doesn't violate ATX standards or stress your architecture too much:
 
- Switch where the Motherboard power supply comes in (the 24 pin connection) and where the SATA ports are. This may become a problem because of the length of modern GPUs however, so....
 
- Install the motherboard power connection that you have on your X299 DARK board on all of your future boards (this would be great on all future board regardless of the relocation of power connections).
 
PREFERABLY:
 
- Combine these two awesome characteristics!
 
The thing I dread about most for any build is hooking up the motherboard power supply because the cable has always been JUST long enough to hook up between the motherboard and the PSU because I usually build with very large cases. It is usually a fight to get it plugged in to the motherboard, and when I'm applying so much downward force to the motherboard to get the clips to engage, I'm afraid I'll damage something.
 
Not to mention, moving the SATA ports further up the board puts them closer to the things that need to plug into them. My case and a few other cases I've looked at have SDD mounts on the backside of the motherboard for one. Also, bringing the SATA ports up further puts them closer to the drive bays on a lot of cases.
 
So, TL;DR: Switch the location of the Motherboard Power Connection with the location of the SATA ports to get the connection closer to the PSU and use your awesome power connection innovation on your X299 DARK board on all EVGA boards in the future and you will have yourself a motherboard that makes building PCs a lot easier and improves cable management.
 
I do plan on buying an EVGA motherboard (and probably case) for my next build now that I know they exist regardless if your take my suggestion to heart, but wow, would that be a quality of life improvement in the future. 
 
Thanks for your time!
 

Happy to report that I got 5GHz (zero AVX offset) to be bench/game stable on the Micro with 3600-C16-1T memory.  It's just a little strange that setting the Ring ratio above 47 does not apply.  For the purpose overclocking, I'd expect to be able to increase it up to 1:1 with Core ratio.
 
On BIOS 1.02, if that helps.  Also first EVGA motherboard owner here, because I really like the minimalist approach to the board design along with the angled fan/power connectors.

Cooling: Raystorm Pro + 480mm radiator custom loop

55C gaming or compiling chromium
72C encoding X265 video
91C Prime95 small FFT AVX

1.365 VCore
50x Core
0 AVX Offset
47x Ring

Custom XMP 3600-16-16-16-36 2x8GB
1T (from 2T)
1.10 VSA (from 1.25v)
1.05 VCIO (from 1.24v)
1.35 VDDR

TIPS:
Use Silicon Lottery's stats to set expectations. Leave memory at default, set vcore to override 1.35v, core to 50x, ring to 39x, try booting and realbench encoding 10 passes. Adjust core ratio up until unstable or down until stable. Reset to last stable ratio, run OCCT small data or prime 95 small fft for 1 hour. That will get so close. At last, optimize your VCore then RAM then ring.

If AVX fail or is too hot, increase offset and retest. Any time you increase Core ratio or decrease VCore, restart from realbench encoding.

Rizardon91
I'm trying with all my heart to like theese boards: the reinforced PCIe slots is a nice addition but when i look at IO shield and WRM heatsinks i was expecting something...else? Maybe i've been spoiled by the Z170/Z270 design or maybe i was expecting someting new similar to the X299 FTWK or maybe is the fact that i was not expecting all the ATX boards to have the metal/white colours.
Is a pity that they won't fit in the colour scheme of my build i was really looking forward them but now i will have to look something else, if only one of the two had an all black colouration...

ya i agree its not what I was waiting for exactly...

Hey, all! This is as much a question for Z370 boards in general as it is for the EVGA ones, but can you put your graphics card in ONLY the second or lower slot on the motherboard? If it's a single GPU will it still run in x16 mode in a slot other than the first one, or do you have to put it there to get the maximum benefit? (I will be using my EVGA 1080 Ti that's still in the box as I write this!)

bcavnaugh

SirKronan
Hey, all! This is as much a question for Z370 boards in general as it is for the EVGA ones, but can you put your graphics card in ONLY the second or lower slot on the motherboard? If it's a single GPU will it still run in x16 mode in a slot other than the first one, or do you have to put it there to get the maximum benefit? (I will be using my EVGA 1080 Ti that's still in the box as I write this!)

Review, I say this because each motherboard is a little different.
 
Z370 Chipset Motherboards                

• Support Manual for EVGA Z370 FTW (134-KS-E377)
• Support Manual for EVGA Z370 Micro ATX (121-KS-E375)
• Support Manual for EVGA Z370 Classified K (134-KS-E379)

Thank you for your response. I was afraid of that!
 
Looks like at least for the three EVGA boards, even if you only have one card, the second slot at MOST, will perform at 8x speeds, and has only an 8x electrical connection. 
 
Is the 1080 Ti powerful enough to need x16? I have read that the 1080 sans Ti is not, but I imagine the 1080 Ti is pushing the limits of an 8x lane. 

SirKronanIs the 1080 Ti powerful enough to need x16? I have read that the 1080 sans Ti is not, but I imagine the 1080 Ti is pushing the limits of an 8x lane.

I had run my 980 Ti and 1080 Ti in the 8x slot on my Maximus VII Gene board for a while due to water cooling clearance without any performance hit, meaning 99-100% usage was still possible at all times.  Eventually, I did optimize my loop so I could use the 16x slot and kept it there when upgraded to the Evga Z370 Micro.  If anything, it's for the peace of mind.  GamerNexus tested recently that two Titan V's are starting to push the limits of x8 SLI though.

Does the Z370 Classified K support 7.1 surround sound?

batboy88
Odds are you don't even need Z370 though...Z170/270 is a masterpiece some awesome mobo's and that chip 7700k is awesome most can hit pretty high clocks. I think many have underestimated that chip.

The 7700k is awesome indeed and I guess most people don't need the 8700k. But I am still on a 1150 Socket with a 4770k and began to digitize my movie collection with x265 which means the CPU became very expensive as it needs more than double the time for encoding than a 8700k by having the same power consumption. The 7700k has a passmark cpu mark of 12.000, the 4770k of 10.000, so I would upgrade from the 7700k as well. 8700k has about 16.000 and 6 cores, which really matters in encoding.
 
My original plan was to get a coffee lake or cannon lake 8-core but obviously there is none yet. So I guess Ice Lake will introduce a desktop 8-core CPU next year but I have the upgrade itch pretty bad so mostly likely it will be the 8700k very soon :)
 

Slimmer
read article that stated that the micro was going for $180 msrp, now it's $220? (jack everything up eh) it's the only z370m that has an onboard digital temp display (nice for windowed case)
cords going up too? geeze

Many Originally wanted Full Msrp 200$++ for a lot of these mobo's, but guess some Retailers had hard time getting rid of them. sell em for quite the discount so that's cool with me, People will buy that stuff for a good deal... 

Vlada011
I heared Intel i9-9900K will be based on Coffee Lake.
It would be nice if he fit in Z370 Micro.

That reminds me that the other MB manufacturers already released BIOS versions in the past few days that support the upcoming 9th gen CPUs on their Z370 boards.
What are the plans of EVGA regarding this?
 
And btw the Z370 boards looking great! Not to mention that the VRM cooling now has probably 5x the surface of Z270.

Even MSI did release the BIOS for Z370 boards supporting 9th gen... What's the move of EVGA?