EVGA Z790 DARK PCB breakdown notes (Patreon)

Motherboard provided by EVGA

VcoreRAA22913118x RAA22010540 105A SPS bulk input filter: 8x 16V 270uF Nichicon FP10Kbulk output filter: 26x 470uF SMD poly150nH inductors 1.2V 500KHzSPS and chokes200A 15W300A 23W400A 32W500A 44W600A 61W

voltage regulation and LLC:the voltage regulation is extremely good. optimal LLC for 24/7 overclocking is either default or +25%.changing the VRM switching frequency up or down from 500KHz make no difference so I recommend leaving it at 500KHz. I tested 300, 400, 500, 750, 800 and 1000KHz.

VCCIN AUX MP2940 2phaseMP8690 25A SPS1.8V 500KHz

no iGPU power

RAM:14 layer 1 dimm slot per channel (1DPC)QVL to 8000, hard to fully stabilize above 7600* but very easy to bench 8000+* BIOS 1.11 massively improved stability at 7800+

POWER/RESET/CLRCMOS/SAFEBOOT buttonsBIOS update buttontriple BIOS switchslow mode switchPCI-e on/off switchesPOST/Monitoring LEDSstatus LEDsProbeIt header

wifi 6E 2.5Gb intel + 10Gb Marvell3x Gen4 M.2CPU PCI-e Gen5x16/x0 or x8/x8 or x0/x16  PCH PCI-e Gen4x48x SATA, 2 have legacy OS support