EVGA Z790 CLASSIFIED

[ir_cow]

EVGA kicks off 2023 with its renowned Classified series. Using the Intel Z790 chipset for Raptor Lake, the new Classified impresses with its unique motherboard layout. Featuring a top of the line 14+2+2 VRM using 105 A power stages, DDR5 support, PCIe Gen 5, 10 Gb LAN and fast USB ports, EVGA's board ticks all the boxes! In our review we check out everything the EVGA Z790 Classified has to offer.

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[Jomale]

I don´t like the eVGA "BIOS" glossy Style. Are we all 12 Year old dudes?
10 Gbit/s is nice. But $ 700;... in Euro at least 820 €, go away, not for me.
Typo, or made by Freud? Quote: I"OS 1.08 (Beta) also adds CPU P1/P2 power limits. Previously (1.05) it was only 4093 W, which is roughly infinite power that CPU can request for the Turbo function." Sorry, it's for intel, so we are not sure. /S

 

[mouacyk]

Next gen will be $800. And after, $900, and so on. Consumers are stupid.

 

[rusTORK]

Memory:	4x DDR4, Maximum Memory Capacity 128GB Memory Support Up to 7800+ (OC)

Really? 8)

 

[mb194dc]

$700, seems like madness to me.

 

[Vario]

Happy with my $300 version of same thing but with normal DDR5 orientation so I can actually fit it in my case with roof fans. I also think the Z690 Classified looks better.

 

[ZoneDymo]

I don´t like the eVGA "BIOS" glossy Style. Are we all 12 Year old dudes?

As a much older "dude" I can comfortably say I dont give a crap what the bios looks like as long as it functions, its not like im going to be spending a lot of time in it (hopefully).
Why do you even care as (I assume) an adult?

 

[W1zzard]

Memory:	4x DDR4, Maximum Memory Capacity 128GB Memory Support Up to 7800+ (OC)

Really? 8)

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Typo, or made by Freud? Quote: I"OS 1.08 (Beta) also adds CPU P1/P2 power limits. Previously (1.05) it was only 4093 W, which is roughly infinite power that CPU can request for the Turbo function." Sorry, it's for intel, so we are not sure. /S

The default limit is 4095 W, the new BIOS adds an option to lower that

BTW, I'm using the Dark in my new GPU Test System

 

[Vario]

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The default limit is 4095 W, the new BIOS adds an option to lower that

BTW, I'm using the Dark in my new GPU Test System

Nice, it appears they added the power limit option to the newest Z690 classified bios as well, about damn time. Not going to update bios until I need to, but grabbed a copy of the rev 2.08 anyway.

 

[Kirederf]

Are these boards US only? They are not even listed on EVGA's EU site.. I would love to try one. I still have an X79 Classified laying around here

 

[bug]

I don´t like the eVGA "BIOS" glossy Style. Are we all 12 Year old dudes?
10 Gbit/s is nice. But $ 700;... in Euro at least 820 €, go away, not for me.
Typo, or made by Freud? Quote: I"OS 1.08 (Beta) also adds CPU P1/P2 power limits. Previously (1.05) it was only 4093 W, which is roughly infinite power that CPU can request for the Turbo function." Sorry, it's for intel, so we are not sure. /S

$700 is a lot, but it's actually a pretty good price for hardcore overclocking. There are contraptions (i.e. mobos with built-in liquid cooling) that can break the $1,000 barrier. At least this one offers useful features.

And no, not a typo, that's how "unlimited" is written in UEFI. I've seen it on my Asus board, too. It just means that the constraint is the temperature instead.

 

[mouacyk]

Where's at least the PLX chipset for x16 + x16 SLI?

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

Where's at least the PLX chipset for x16 + x16 SLI?

Bruh SLI died years ago.

 

[bug]

Bruh SLI died years ago.

I would argue it was never really alive. But it was present.

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

I would argue it was never really alive. But it was present.

Well it was alive, it had active support from developers and more importantly from nvidia. It wasnt popular but you go back to the glory days of DX9 and it was available in a large number of titles. It's a shame it never went mainstream.

 

[bug]

Well it was alive, it had active support from developers and more importantly from nvidia. It wasnt popular but you go back to the glory days of DX9 and it was available in a large number of titles. It's a shame it never went mainstream.

I don't miss it one bit, I think the whole concept was flawed. It started as "don't throw away your old video card, just use it to boost your new one" (marketing speak, this never really worked). Irl pairing two mid-range cards was rarely a better solution than just buying one card, one tier up. And it ended up as a solution only for those that bought the very high-end and still wanted something faster. I mean, imagine having to buy two 3090Ti cards these days...

I don't believe SLI and Crossfire combined ever broke 5% on Steam. If that's not dead, I don't know what is.

 

[Jism]

I don't miss it one bit, I think the whole concept was flawed. It started as "don't throw away your old video card, just use it to boost your new one" (marketing speak, this never really worked). Irl pairing two mid-range cards was rarely a better solution than just buying one card, one tier up. And it ended up as a solution only for those that bought the very high-end and still wanted something faster. I mean, imagine having to buy two 3090Ti cards these days...

I don't believe SLI and Crossfire combined ever broke 5% on Steam. If that's not dead, I don't know what is.

What the hell.... The whole SLI concept started with 3DFX where you could pair another identical card and get as as much as 50% performance improvement. The same applied for both AMD or Nvidia, and games that did support it worked flawless. SLI is a great concept but too much of a hassle to get it right. It all depends on game devs and not AMD or Nvidia in regards of driver support.

The future will be multi-modules anyway, where a few graphical chips work as one and tackle any latency by keeping everything as close as possible in regards of hardware.

Anyway; great board. EVGA really puts the dot on the i. They should start making AMD boards as well.

 

[ir_cow]

Anyway; great board. EVGA really puts the dot on the i. They should start making AMD boards as well.

They have and do

 

[Tomorrow]

Are these boards US only? They are not even listed on EVGA's EU site.. I would love to try one. I still have an X79 Classified laying around here

Welcome EVGA mindset. To them EU are second class citizens. Always have been. Their product availability in EU is nonexistent. Im surprised they keep the EU store around at all.

 

[zmeul]

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why is this a negative?
I only see it as a positive, if used it cuts lanes from the PEG slot

why would you even want a gen 5 m.2 PCIe NVMe SSD? they're hot, quite very hot; and for the end user, the perceived performance in real world is not that much greater

 

[ir_cow]

why is this a negative?
I only see it as a positive, if used it cuts lanes from the PEG slot

why would you even want a gen 5 m.2 PCIe NVMe SSD? they're hot, quite very hot; and for the end user, the perceived performance in real world is not that much greater

Because it's not included and people do want this considering the price point. Personally I don't care either way. But you can see this as a lost M.2 socket as well. Only problem would be where to put it. If it just replace one of the existing M2 sockets, what would be worse then you're not having it.

 

[wheresmycar]

For $700 it definitely lives up to the "CLASSIFIED" kick in the teeth for the majority of us. I wouldn't pay more than $250 for a mobo even if it bakes a cake. But then again, i like EVGA....so be kind!! They gotto make up the dollar after nV probably shafted them.

 

[mouacyk]

Bruh SLI died years ago.

Bro, you can still use 2 GPU's at full x16 for non-gaming stuff

 

[Ravenmaster]

"What we have here today is the EVGA Z790 CLASSIFIED, which is one of only two motherboards offered by EVGA for this chipset."

They have 4 motherboards that's support Alder Lake and Raptor Lake. The Z690 Classified and the Z690 Dark Kingpin. And the now Z790 Classified and Z790 Dark Kingpin. They made their two Z690 Raptor Lake compatible a few firmware updates ago.

I'm using the Z690 Dark Kingpin myself, along with a Intel i9 13900KF.

 

[dgianstefani]

"What we have here today is the EVGA Z790 CLASSIFIED, which is one of only two motherboards offered by EVGA for this chipset."

They have 4 motherboards that's support Alder Lake and Raptor Lake. The Z690 Classified and the Z690 Dark Kingpin. And the now Z790 Classified and Z790 Dark Kingpin. They made their two Z690 Raptor Lake compatible a few firmware updates ago.

I'm using the Z690 Dark Kingpin myself, along with a Intel i9 13900KF.

Yes and in case you missed it Z690 and Z790 aren't the same chipset.

They're compatible with the same CPUs, but so are X370, X470 and X570, are they also the same chipset?