EVGA Z590 Dark Motherboard Review: Improved Aesthetics, Premium Hardware

A full-featured overclocking flagship, with an improved appearance and some unique features

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EVGA Z590 Dark
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Firmware

EVGA’s BIOS for Z590 looks the same as the previous versions. You’re greeted by a black and faint teal menu selection screen that allows you to set default settings, a gamer mode, the EVGA OC Robot to automatically overclock your PC, or finally, jump into the advanced configuration. Once inside the advanced section, you’ll find a list of menu items across the top, with sub-heading and details listed below. Everything necessary in this BIOS is easy to find and not hidden behind several sub-headings, especially anything regarding overclocking. Overall, this is an easy BIOS to navigate, and the contrasting colors make it easy to read. Frankly, this is one of the more mature and stable interfaces I’ve used recently.

Joe Shields
Joe Shields
Staff Writer, Components

Joe Shields is a staff writer at Tom’s Hardware. He reviews motherboards and PC components.

4 Comments Comment from the forums
  • BTM18
    Already sold out ?

    https://www.evga.com/products/productlist.aspx?type=1&family=Motherboard+Family&chipset=Intel+Z590
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  • deesider
    Is this not a weird MB?

    It's a massive E-ATX board, but only has 2 usable PCIe slots and 2 DIMM slots, for $600, with OK performance.
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  • btmedic04
    deesider said:
    Is this not a weird MB?

    It's a massive E-ATX board, but only has 2 usable PCIe slots and 2 DIMM slots, for $600, with OK performance.

    This board isnt intended to be a daily driver, thats the FTW's job. The Dark is intended to be used with sub zero cooling for world record attempts, which the review failed to touch on.

    That socket area is very busy with all of those SPS and I dont envy the people who need to insulate that area for LN2 pot usage
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  • Co BIY
    Are there really that many Extreme overclockers in the world?

    And how many of those don't already have their Z590 board?

    Inclusion of U.2 is interesting to me - Can I get faster acccess with U.2 or are all the overclockers IT pros with awesome U.2 (or new Optane) drives just laying around ?

    Bare copper heat sink is a good look though. A little steam punk, a little "electrical hotrod".
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