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I heard you guys like dark things that's why today we're taking a look at the Z 390 dark we're gonna talk about the sexiness that is the Z 390 dark from EVGA but before that we need to thank our sponsor that is Corsair and brought to you by their new high performance desktops learn more about the Corsair 1 PC in the description below ok so the Z 390 dark another collaboration obviously between EVGA and the vents kingpin this is an overclocking board you know okay so EVGA has had the classified series but the dark is something they brought back we've obviously seen it with the XT 99 dark that's what we've been using with our 79 80 XC and our 99 ATX II motherboard but mainstream obviously with there being more cores and more threads and multi-threaded you know monsters that are coming out on both AMD and Intel obviously this is EB J's Intel design for overclocking up like 90 100 K 9700 K or any ninth gen mainstream processor now you might notice this has got an extremely robust vrm or digital power delivery for the CPU but it's rotated in a very awkward position it's got this huge cut out right here for ninety-degree power cables 24 pin and of course to a pin ups and the RAM is sitting up here at the top and what they found was this allowed for one a very clean design in terms of power but you're not splitting the power separate from each other so normally you'd have the 24 pin over here and the 8 pin summer up here and then you'd have memory over here and you have these weird cross you know motherboards falling over you have this weird cross traces on top of each other or going around routing weird pads around the board they basically said if we rotate this 90 degrees we can make you much cleaner design a much shorter design for both memory power and power power and power power plugs power delivery those two powers and they found that this was better for overclocking so we haven't actually tested this we hope to do something with this in the near future but it's got a very over built vrm so how many 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 I can't count 16 phase power I don't know what that split between memory and CPU but it's got a lot and look at all of them diodes look at that it's got so many doodads that you're guaranteed to get a good but it isn't incredibly over-designed in a good way motherboard 10 layer PCB you know high content gold pins 16 phase power now a lot of people might look at this and go why are there only two RAM slots well obviously if you've if you've never dealt with overclocking when you have a lot of RAM sticks that puts more stress on the memory controller which can limit your overclocks on your cpu so it's just one slot per channel meaning that this is obviously designed for motherboard overclocking rather than Mayo straight up like desktop workstation solutions with high amounts of RAM so you can do 288 sticks or even to 16 years sticks and have 32 gigs of ram in this but as you can see right here 2 m dot 2 slots right next to each other in between the PCI Express 16 X 4 X and other 16x it's really well thought out so I do want to get my hands on this and do some testing with this we never really pushed the 1900 K at all in terms of overclocking so we get our hands on one of these maybe we'll do some ln2 on that as well we've got three BIOS on this motherboard so if we break a BIOS we've got a couple to back us up so guys tell me what you think of the Z 390 dark it's been a while since we've seen the dark name and obviously with the latest Intel launches EVGA has brought back that lineup but I just felt that this motherboard was worth climbing into bed with they know yeah I probably climb into bed with any motherboard cuz I'm just that much of a tech nerd by digressed guys thanks for watching today's video at CES 2019 and a huge thanks to Coursera for sponsoring our trip check out the Corsair 1 desktop PC in the link in description below tuck this guy in here there we go little fella we'll see you soon