EVGA DARK motherboards blaze the trail for other boards to follow, and the Z690 DARK K|NGP|N is no exception. The ability to destroy world records is insignificant next to the power of a 21-phase VRM and a 10-layer PCB – capable of driving the most powerful 12th Gen Intel® Core™ processors. With support for 64GB of DDR5 memory at up to 6600MHz+(OC), PCIe Gen5, and PCIe Gen4 M.2 NVMe SSDs, a new DARK age of overclocking will rise as quickly as new hardware becomes available. The Z690 DARK K|NGP|N is today’s choice for the future of overclocking and gaming.
 
Learn more here: https://www.evga.com/articles/01543/EVGA-Z690-DARK-KINGPIN/

where I can order. Please reservation me one piece.

hopefully I can grab one

Sporrdig
where I can order. Please reservation me one piece.

go here and click "auto notify":
 
https://www.evga.com/products/product.aspx?pn=121-AL-E699-KR
 
 

Nice, looks impressive looking, and sets a new record for pricing, though that's not a surprise really. A bit out of my price range, and not really my time to upgrade, but it looks great.

Love when you see a board the not only looks amazing, but is designed and engineered as well as it looks. Can't wait to get my hands on one.

quick question about the whole z690 and Intel CPU. So I read that the new CPU supports 16 lanes of PCIe 5.0 and an additional 4 for PCIe 4.0. then I also here that it also provides an additional 12 lanes for PCIe gen 4. I am a bit confused. I read the article from this site
 
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-core-i9-12900k-and-core-i5-12600k-review-retaking-the-gaming-crown
 
 
if this is in fact true. I will go ahead and purchase this board since I just got my notification about an hour ago

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quick question about the whole z690 and Intel CPU. So I read that the new CPU supports 16 lanes of PCIe 5.0 and an additional 4 for PCIe 4.0. then I also here that it also provides an additional 12 lanes for PCIe gen 4. I am a bit confused. I read the article from this site
 
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-core-i9-12900k-and-core-i5-12600k-review-retaking-the-gaming-crown
 
 
if this is in fact true. I will go ahead and purchase this board since I just got my notification about an hour ago

The 16 gen 5 lanes is for the top 2 x16 slots primarily for GPU(s) The additional 4 gen 4 lanes is for a direct link for a gen 4 nvme drive to the CPU. The additional (up to) 12 gen 4 lanes and (up to) 16 gen 3 lanes are lanes connected to the chipset for additional devices and IO such as more m.2/u.2 nvme drives, USB ports, SATA ports, Ethernet ports, pcie slots. Look at what this board supports and see if that suits you as each manufacturer customizes their board for what they suspect their customer base needs.

As much as I loved my old EVGA X299 Dark motherboard, it's tiny active cooling fans were a huge pet hate as they made a ton of high pitched noise. I ended up removing them for that reason. The board stayed cool enough without them. Either way, I hope EVGA does not use tiny active cooling fans on its future Z790 motherboards.

Ordered mine today through my queue. Can’t wait to see what it does