I could have sworn I posted this here already but I can't find the post I thought I'd made and my account says I have no posts, so I guess I didn't.
 
I emailed support asking if they could please just let me / us know if they were never going to push a bios update for these boards, so we can just accept it and move on with our lives, and they emailed me back saying that they did intend to push 14th gen support for these motherboards.  I'm curious if they are going to pay to have another company make them a bios - I know very little about firmware programming but I'd imagine that for folks who do this, tweaking the existing bios to support these extremely similar CPUs should be pretty straightforward? The company seems like its going to try to continue to exist, at least selling PSUs and maybe some other stuff that don't involve intense PCB engineering, so I'd imagine they wouldn't want to kill their customer's good will. Anyway, here's the email.
I can attach screenshots if you want but they said:

"Hi Max,

Thank you for your e-mail and I can confirm that the BIOS to support the 14th Gen CPUs has been requested however we do not have an ETA for when it will be available. I have also passed along your concern.

Please contact us back if you have any other questions or issues.

Regards,
EVGA"
 
in regards to my email of 
"I bought a EVGA Z690 Dark Kingpin motherboard along with a i5-12600, and I''ve had some fun with BCLK overclocking, but I''m ready to upgrade to a newer cpu with more cores. I''ve had my eye on the 14700k, but currently the board doesn''t support 14th gen intel cpus. I was hoping that eventually EVGA would put out a statement one way or the other about 14th gen support on these motherboards - at some point, someone in the forums who was an EVGA representative said 14th gen Intel support was being worked on, so myself and I think some others have been waiting to pull the trigger on upgrading. If you aren''t planning on releasing this update, can you make this known? We''d all rather just know rather than hold our breaths. If that''s the case I''ll get a 13th gen CPU and call it a day.
Thanks - Max"

novackmm
I could have sworn I posted this here already but I can't find the post I thought I'd made and my account says I have no posts, so I guess I didn't.
 
I emailed support asking if they could please just let me / us know if they were never going to push a bios update for these boards, so we can just accept it and move on with our lives, and they emailed me back saying that they did intend to push 14th gen support for these motherboards.  I'm curious if they are going to pay to have another company make them a bios - I know very little about firmware programming but I'd imagine that for folks who do this, tweaking the existing bios to support these extremely similar CPUs should be pretty straightforward? The company seems like its going to try to continue to exist, at least selling PSUs and maybe some other stuff that don't involve intense PCB engineering, so I'd imagine they wouldn't want to kill their customer's good will. Anyway, here's the email.
I can attach screenshots if you want but they said:

"Hi Max,

Thank you for your e-mail and I can confirm that the BIOS to support the 14th Gen CPUs has been requested however we do not have an ETA for when it will be available. I have also passed along your concern.

Please contact us back if you have any other questions or issues.

Regards,
EVGA"
 
in regards to my email of 
"I bought a EVGA Z690 Dark Kingpin motherboard along with a i5-12600, and I''ve had some fun with BCLK overclocking, but I''m ready to upgrade to a newer cpu with more cores. I''ve had my eye on the 14700k, but currently the board doesn''t support 14th gen intel cpus. I was hoping that eventually EVGA would put out a statement one way or the other about 14th gen support on these motherboards - at some point, someone in the forums who was an EVGA representative said 14th gen Intel support was being worked on, so myself and I think some others have been waiting to pull the trigger on upgrading. If you aren''t planning on releasing this update, can you make this known? We''d all rather just know rather than hold our breaths. If that''s the case I''ll get a 13th gen CPU and call it a day.
Thanks - Max"

Sounds like weasel words.
"I can confirm that the BIOS to support the 14th Gen CPUs has been requested"
Well yes, and you are one of many who have requested it. Doesn't mean they are doing it.
"we do not have an ETA for when it will be available"
Again, doesn't say they are doing it, just that they have no ETA.
Both statements are misdirection, also known as weasel words.
At this point, I don't believe they have any intention of posting an update. Once the next gen Intel comes out, EVGA will then say these motherboards are now end of line and are no longer being supported.
 
 
 

If that's true, its really disappointing that they can't just own up and say they aren't ever going to release support.

novackmm
If that's true, its really disappointing that they can't just own up and say they aren't ever going to release support.

If they do that, they may open themselves up to litigation and/or a forced mass recall. More likely they'll keep responding the same way until they finally dissolve the company, and then it won't matter because once the business entity is dissolved it's kind of hard to get money out of it, and in this case, far more expensive to do than it's worth.
 

quadlatte
Sad to say I've already purchased a replacement board and my days of purchasing any EVGA products are over.

Welcome to the club, since there isn't much you can buy from EVGA anyways.

oldfresh

 
 
14900KS IN MY HAND. GOOD BYE FOREVER EVGA!!! RIP!!

NICE. Aye, EVGA had a mighty fun ride. Enjoy it!

quadlatte

ironage

quadlatte
Sad to say I've already purchased a replacement board and my days of purchasing any EVGA products are over.

Welcome to the club, since there isn't much you can buy from EVGA anyways.

funny thing is its still a Z690 board, MSI MEG ACE, newegg had them for a great price and its a really good board that gets continued updates, What sucks is i really like my Classy board and how it looks so changing to a different board bites but if they are not going to support it then i and no one else really have any other option. 
 

I get it, pretty sure we all do! I moved on months ago to an Asrock Nova Z790. I still have a Classified Z690 (EVGA was blowing them out JUST before the Z790s came out) unpopulated sitting in a Lian Li case. Maybe I'll toss a 13th Gen in there for a relative to help them out, but EVGA as long left building, except for some tech support and warranty fulfillments obligations. When my 2080ti died a few months back, the extended warranty was still in effect, and believe it or not they sent me a NEW GPU! (in the past any warranty covered GPS I received from EVGA have said refurb on them and this card had none of that) I guess they had some NOS lying around so I can't complain. But yeah, they are a mere shell of their prior existence and most of us that are still here, reading and posting on the forum, are the last of a dying breed...
 

rangerscott
Anyone selling their z790 mobo?

I was considering it, but I think I'll wait for 15th Gen since it's apparently a new socket (LGA 1851). Not much point for me to get another Z790 between now and then. 15th Gen expected either late this year or very early 2025. I'm guessing I'll go with an ASUS motherboard for that, depends what's available.
 

ilukeberry
Gamers Nexus about getting emails about 14th gen update from EVGA customers:
https://youtu.be/66HkbAGX83g?si=Ij2vrB3xWEwC-vj6&t=542
Starts at: 9:02

Yup. Confirmed what we were all pretty sure of: there's no more people to do motherboard BIOS updates. It also gave a pretty good indication that they don't plan to (or know how to manage anymore) outsource a BIOS update to support their motherboards further. So that doesn't really leave a lot of questions unanswered. 

rangerscott
This test review of the msi 4080 super expert has a z790 dark with a 14900k.

https://www.techpowerup.c...80-super-expert/5.html

That is certainly interesting. I'm not sure why they'd choose to run an unsupported CPU on a motherboard that doesn't even have the correct V/F points or microcode for it.
 
Edit: I see they've done all their GPU testing since the 14900k launched with that CPU on the z790 Dark with a 330W limit in place.
 
Edit2: I messaged W1zzard and got a response. He's apparently just running it at default settings...whatever those are lol. I wonder if that means it's running at 13900k clocks.

Well, it’s rocket science for the 3 janitors left running the company.

rangerscott
Sucks they said they were gonna support us but now its a ghost town. Is rma even alive or will it be much longer.

Their RMA is alive and well! I just sent in my 2080ti and actually got a brand new one back in return!
But as for Bios update, not happening as stated for above for the most obvious of reasons, there is no one to do it...

Come on. April fools passed already.

Nereus
…not Z690.

I’m surprised but not. At least for you guys, I hope the best of luck with it.

So, a few questions come to mind reading the posts about this "latest BIOS" for 14th Gen Intel.

1. Is EVGA going to make this new Z790 BIOS available to all of us or do we have to do something specific to get it?  I Just checked the EVGA Mobo Support webpage for this BIOS and its only showing the old March 2023 versions (for Classified and Dark).
2. Is the "new" BIOS for both the Classified and Dark Z790?

Thanks