Friday, July 16th 2021

EVGA Z590 DARK Motherboard Released to Retail at $600

The EVGA Z590 DARK once again strikes fear into the hearts of other Z590 motherboards by combining every ounce of power available to the Intel Z590 chipset and fine-tuning it to perfection. This armed and fully-operational motherboard is born from a 10-layer PCB and powered by a 21-Phase VRM. With support for PCIe Gen4 graphics cards and M.2 NVMe SSDs, overclockers have nothing to fear when shooting for the highest scores in any benchmark.

For everyone else, the Z590 DARK is loaded with over a dozen USB options, eight SATA ports, two 2.5 Gbps NICs + WiFi 6/BT 5.1, 7.1 Channel HD Audio, three M.2 Key-M slots, and two fan headers dedicated to AIO CPU Coolers. As a wise overclocker once said, "Once you start down the DARK path, forever will it dominate your destiny." and with the EVGA Z590 DARK, that destiny is sure to be filled with shattered records and countless victories on the battlefield.
To learn more about the EVGA Z590 DARK, visit this page.
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63 Comments on EVGA Z590 DARK Motherboard Released to Retail at $600

#26
WonkoTheSaneUK
Interesting that all the cable sockets except for fans are right-angled and on the edge of the board. But I'm "Team Red" for CPUs right now.
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#28
ZoneDymo
Raven RampkinOverclocking doesn't care about sockets tbf. Daily users aren't the target audience of this thing I imagine...
Sure but who is going to care about overclocking records when the new faster cpu is out?
I mean sure its still fun to see Der Bauer go ham on an FX8350 or so but the audience that is already niche is even more niche for that, newer gets the views so I still thing its odd timing.

They should get it out asap when the hype of the new product is still going strong.
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#29
Nanochip
With alder lake due out within a few months, anyone buying this dead end motherboard at this price is just plain stupid. Sorry the tech looks good but it is about to be obsoleted in mere months. Get the z690 version.
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#30
oldwalltree
The main difference between the Z490 and Z590 is the 18 vs 21 Phase VRM. Worth 200 more then the "Last Gen" idk.....
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#31
SamSpend
DeathtoGnomes2 RAM slots can still get ya 32gb too
‎You can get 64GB and 2x32GB (Gskill Trident Z Royal)‎
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#32
mouacyk
mclaren85There are only 2 simm slots.. and the capacitors are not military class. too bad for a premium board.
If you don't appreciate DPC, this board (these boards) ain't for you. For the price, it's missing PLX for 2x16 lanes multi-GPU and 2x10Gbe ports. The coppah alone can't run the BOM that high.
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#33
owen10578
This is awesome and all but X570S Dark where?
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#34
zo0lykas
DeathtoGnomes2 RAM slots can still get ya 32gb too
i know how much you can install, lol.

what iam saying is more manufactories should start to do 2 slots
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#35
bug
zo0lykasi know how much you can install, lol.

what iam saying is more manufactories should start to do 2 slots
Well, 2 slots earns you nothing with a traditional layout...
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#36
ThrashZone
zo0lykasi know how much you can install, lol.

what iam saying is more manufactories should start to do 2 slots
Hi,
These are oc minded only boards pure dual channel most won't use more than 16gb sticks and that's IF it's the newer 4000++++c14 kits at crazy dimm voltages otherwise pnly 8gb sticks.
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#37
Jism
That copper based VRM heatsink is really sexy.

Top notch quality hardware there.
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#38
MxPhenom 216
ASIC Engineer
Well god damn EVGA that is one sexy board you have made. :clap:

EVGA and Gigabyte seem to be bringing back the real fin array heatsinks for VRM cooling back from the dead. Other companies better take note. Easily the best way to cool things on the board passively and looks damn good while doing it.
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#39
xtreemchaos
ThrashZoneThese are oc minded only
agreed its not for tha faint hearted :) its built for LN2 .
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#40
MxPhenom 216
ASIC Engineer
mclaren85There are only 2 simm slots.. and the capacitors are not military class. too bad for a premium board.
2 DIMM slots should not be considered a negative for a board basically geared for tweaking and overclocking.

2 DIMM slots, using DPC topology, is the holy grail for memory overclocking.
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#41
Gundem
TheinsanegamerNDude I love those types of boards, look at all the color! The variety! The functional heatsinks!

As opposed to the all dark color RGB infested aluminum block having designs fo today, that board is a breath of fresh air.
+1
Those boards were(are) great looking.
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#42
Sabishii Hito
xtreemchaosagreed its not for tha faint hearted :) its built for LN2 .
Great for ambient custom water OC as well, especially pushing mem.
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#43
Totally
xela333Am I the only one who's not a fan of the design? It looks like it's been cobbled together from parts they had lying around, no synergy in the design. Reminds me of the old Asus Striker II Formula board

*looks around and then whispers, inconspicously*

You are the only one.
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#44
mechtech
$600, does it come with a 10-yr warranty ???
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#45
Mistral
It's nice to see real seatsinks on motherboards again, but that price...

The changes they've done to the connectors on the board are dope. I'd love for that to be adopted more widely.
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#46
fluxc0d3r
Still wish DFI was alive making cool looking motherboards without the ridiculous pricing, they had motherboards that looked way better than this with beefier and better looking heat pipes. Expected more from $600, and why is there still a PS/2 port?

A decade ago (P55 chipset era), there was a time when even Foxconn and ECS had amazing looking boards selling on Newegg. Miss those days. Remember when you could get cool looking boards like Foxconn P55 Katana, ECS P55H-AK Black series, and the DFI P55-T3eH9 in 2010. Now every board looks like every other board, no distinction at all.

Do a google search on "DFI P55-T3eH10", that's how you do heat piping on a motherboard. Unfortunately, it was a board from DFI that never got released and the P55 T3eH9 was one of their last consumer boards.
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#47
Ferrum Master
fluxc0d3rand why is there still a PS/2 port?
Because it works more reliable under LN2...
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#48
Ravenmaster
All those nice looking shrouds yet they didn't even bother to cover up those unsightly yellow capacitors that stick out like a sore thumb :kookoo:
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#49
Taotaisei
mclaren85There are only 2 dimm slots.. and the capacitors are not military class. too bad for a premium board.
"Military class" is such a freaking crock. The board is $600 designed for OC which 2 slots are the norm.
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#50
AnarchoPrimitiv
Anyone think it's kind of odd that an overclockong board has 8x SATAIII ports? It also has a SFF-8643/miniSAS port for U.2 I presume, is that popular in the XOC world?
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