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Talon2020
Is EVGA really not going to provide this update for the Z690 boards? Really EVGA?

They replied to my email and advised:
“There is no plan to support the Z690 chipset Motherboard due to hardware circuitry that would need to be reworked as well, to support the two generations CPUs from original design”.

That is total non sense. How is it that every single other brand supports all 3 gen’s on their motherboards. Even B660 boards support 12-14th gen.

Talon2020

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Talon2020
Is EVGA really not going to provide this update for the Z690 boards? Really EVGA?

They replied to my email and advised:
“There is no plan to support the Z690 chipset Motherboard due to hardware circuitry that would need to be reworked as well, to support the two generations CPUs from original design”.

That is total non sense. How is it that every single other brand supports all 3 gen’s on their motherboards. Even B660 boards support 12-14th gen.

Glad I'm not the only one thinking about the same thing. Oh well. It is what it is. Although, I did read a while back of someone doing a small Notepad edit to a Z790 bios to make it work on a Z690. Supposedly, it was successful. I'm even tempted to try it. I mean i could always flash back I would hope lol.

Talon2020

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Talon2020
Is EVGA really not going to provide this update for the Z690 boards? Really EVGA?

They replied to my email and advised:
“There is no plan to support the Z690 chipset Motherboard due to hardware circuitry that would need to be reworked as well, to support the two generations CPUs from original design”.

That is total non sense. How is it that every single other brand supports all 3 gen’s on their motherboards. Even B660 boards support 12-14th gen.

yeh I thought that bit was a notch of malarkey myself.. I did get the call from Chris yesterday (Thank you Chris!) , unfortunately it's "too little, too late" on my end since I sold the Z790 board a month ago, got an Apex Encore (insanely awesome mobo btw I've got a 14900KS running over 6.5ghz stable [6.1 ghz pcore] on AIO with the PTM7950 pads as recommended in the other thread regarding 4090 temps). Although I reached out to my Z790 Dark KP buyer (local ) to see if he wanted to try the 14th gen bios, still waiting to hear back. I am curious if anyone else has installed the bios and had any success? I would hope we could get a Z690 Dark KP 14th gen bios but not holding my breath. Z690 Dark KP was the best mobo, still running 3090 Ti KP in SLI on that rig, absolutely fantastic and the most reliable and stable build that I have in the arsenal. I really love EVGA but I also really hate EVGA so I'm not going to take that survey that you guys requested in the email, you do NOT wanna know what I really think. lol

EVGATech_ChrisB
Dear EVGA Community,
 
I can confirm that we have released a BETA BIOS update for the Current Gen. Intel Processors for both the E798 and the E799, Z790 Motherboards. 
 
Please email cbencivenga@evga.com with the serial number of your registered motherboard and I will email you the BIOS update.
 
 

I still don't feel bad returning my Classified given how it's STILL a Beta Bios and taken this long... And I still have a Z690MB which almost all MB makers managed to make work with 14th Gen and EVGA couldn't. It's just sad, isn't it?

No APO support either lmao

Now that there is 14 Series support the last thing to close out is APO. If APO Support is being worked I'm keeping my Z790 Kingpin:)

Anyone using this new beta BIOS with a 14th gen chip, could you give info on the included CPU microcodes?

Nvm, it’s 122 only, that’s somewhat unfortunate.

pbytano
Now that there is 14 Series support the last thing to close out is APO. If APO Support is being worked I'm keeping my Z790 Kingpin:)

This is a 'final' beta release, meaning there will be no more from EVGA. This is the end of the road.
 

Updated the BIOS and threw a 14900KS in the board, limited it to 320w and 400A IccMax (through XTU on the latter setting as I could not find a similar setting in the BIOS) to comply with Intel's "Extreme Power Delivery" profile, and it seems to work great so far. If I left it uncapped and ran something like Cinebench R23, it hit over 400w and 100c almost instantly on a Arctic Liquid Freezer III 420, so this is a nice middle ground for me so far.