EVGA’s Kingpin motherboards are a few of the most bonkers on the market, correct slabs which can be designed for excessive overclocking with vastly spectacular energy supply, a number of BIOSes and a few distinctive options. They’re additionally vastly costly, usually costing near $1000, however a deep low cost on their Z690 mannequin over at Newegg brings it to $400. That is nonetheless expensive, however an affordable pickup given the function listing for anybody designing a top-end gaming rig round Intel’s Twelfth-gen or Thirteenth-gen Core processors.
So do you completely want this motherboard when you’re choosing a high-end CPU just like the Core i9 13900K? Completely not. You will get largely the identical efficiency with a ton of far more reasonably priced boards, e.g. the $275 Asus Z790 Gaming Plus WiFi and even the $130 Gigabyte B760M DS3H.
The Kingpin board solely is smart when you’ll truly make use of its superior options and overspecced parts, eg when you’re occupied with overclocking the CPU or pushing your RAM to its restrict. Most individuals aren’t sitting round with a vat of liquid nitrogen, after all, however having a board like this may allow you to push farther and with extra management even with comparatively customary cooling strategies like a tower fan cooler or 240mm+ AiO.
The BIOS gives a ton of choices for reinforcing efficiency and monitoring your progress, whereas the 21-phase VRM can push out an enormous quantity of energy to the CPU. This board even comes with a CPU socket that is rotated 90 levels to minimise hint size and two DDR5 slots as a substitute of 4 to permit for increased RAM frequencies and tighter timings to be reached.
Past the overclocking, EVGA is understood for creating exceptionally steady motherboards that simply work nicely out of the field, and that is a function of the Kingpin board too. Once more, for the common PC gamer it is not price the additional value, however when you’re speccing a $3000+ system with top-of-the-line parts, then you definitely’ll seemingly have the funds to attain a high-end motherboard too – particularly at this diminished worth.
What do you assume – are you interested by a high-end board like this one or do you are likely to choose the most affordable one which helps the CPU and options you need? Let me know within the feedback beneath!
