A short 9-second video clip uploaded by EVGA to YouTube, if not a cruel joke on enthusiasts, almost confirms that the company is preparing to launch a motherboard for AMD's Ryzen processors. It's time to embrace it.

AMD announced the AM4 socket in September 2016, and the Ryzen 1000 series followed shortly after. Now, nearly five years later, AMD has changed things up and announced the latest generation of its architecture, Zen 3, which supports some of the best CPUs for gaming.

Curiously, EVGA has always avoided producing motherboards for Ryzen processors, but that is about to change.

The teaser video is titled "A new Darkness is coming..." and the Ryzen logo appears in a plume of smoke surrounding EVGA's "Dark" branding. No product name is mentioned, but EVGA is probably preparing to announce the X570 Dark motherboard.

There would be no point in adopting anything other than AMD's top chipset (X570) for Ryzen; EVGA is committed to the Dark lineup. For example, the Z590 Dark for Intel processors, with its 10-layer printed circuit board (PCB) and 22-phase voltage regulator module (VRM), is made for overclockers and "everyone who wants ultimate performance."

"As a wise overclocker once said, 'Once you start down the dark path, it will forever rule your destiny,' and with the EVGA Z590 Dark, that destiny is sure to be filled with crushing records and countless victories on the battlefield," EVGA stated.

Such hyperbole is a bit much for the B550 chipset, and it is safe to assume that EVGA will not be making a board with the previous generation X470 chipset; EVGA will not be making a board with the previous generation X470 chipset.

As our friends at Tom's Hardware point out, this will not actually be the first motherboard to support AMD processors, but the first for Ryzen; some may recall the EVGA nForce 730a from the Athlon 64 era. That board was also built for AMD hardware, but was based on the Nvidia chipset.

As far as I know, the upcoming Dark SKU will be the first with an actual AMD chipset. I expect EVGA to give AMD the proper Dark treatment with a robust VRM, plenty of connectivity options (including 2x USB 3.2 Gen 2, 2.5GbE LAN ports, and Wi-Fi 6), onboard diagnostic LEDs, and addressable RGB lighting. However, we need to wait and see a bit more.