EVGA Z590 FTW WIFI Motherboard Review: Overbuilt, Improved Looks

Updated appearance, solid power delivery and a well-rounded feature set for $429.99.

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EVGA Z590 FTW WIFI Motherboard
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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, an 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 important 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 and, frankly, one of the more mature and stable out of the gate for EVGA.

Joe Shields
Joe Shields
Staff Writer, Components

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

1 Comment Comment from the forums
  • Bobaganoosh
    Thanks for doing this review! As an owner of this board, I'd love it if you shared some of your experience with gear 1 memory timings, or CPU overclock limitations. I'm currently running my 11900k at 5.3GHz-all-core and memory at 3733MHz cl16 gear1. I've seen some other boards with frequency curve offsets, but this board just has a general voltage offset. I'm curious what the best approach with this board is to see if I can get more stability and head towards 5.4GHz+ (at least on 2 cores). My OC Robot seems to think it is possible to do 5.4GHz-AC, but it doesn't like to run there or even with just the 2 *cores there and the others at 5.3. Cheers!
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