While many of the tier one motherboard makers have abandoned factory supported overclocking you can still find hardware that supports it. Generally speaking this hardware always costs more due to the additional accessories and extra time building and testing that everything works as it should. Of course that is for mainstream hardware that you find on launch day and is where many companies stop.

To find hardware that is truly unique you must play the waiting game. This is what we did back in the DFI LanParty days where you would often wait six months for the new overclocking board to be released only to have a revision to that board come out a short time later. Those were the awesome times to be a hardware enthusiast and yet many were upset.

In this review I’ll be looking at what might be considered the next best thing, the EVGA Z390 Dark. Much like what DFI did with their LanParty boards the EVGA Dark is what I would call a revision and enhancement of the EVGA Z390 FTW that improves and tunes the motherboard for extreme overclocking while still offering out of box performance for fans of high-end hardware.