Hardware Breakdown Presents: ASRock Taichi motherboard
In this latest episode of Hardware Breakdown, we have here the ASROCK Taichi motherboard. The highest-end offering from ASRock on the market, the price most certainly dictates that as it retails for a whopping $370. Without wasting any more text in this intro, I will visually layout this motherboard on the virtual work table and examine critical features and components. Let’s get to it
Right off the back, this motherboard supports the newest Intel LGA1200 processors, so you're out of luck if you expect backward compatibility. Specifically, it will be compatible with Intel’s 10th generation Core i9 processors, unveiled a few months back.
On the memory front, the motherboard supports DDR4 4666MHz+. So that you know, a pair of DDR4 SDRAM modules at 4000MHz is an expensive option. Just be prepared to expend a great deal of green ( cash).
In total, there are five PCIe slots on this motherboard, 3-PCIe 3.0 x 16 and 2-PCIe 3.0 x 1, supporting the latest Nvidia SLI and AMD 3-Way CrossFireX configuration.
Connecting multiple hard drives to this motherboard would certainly not be an issue as there are 8-SATA3 ports, two M.2 PCIe ( PCIe Gen 3 x4&SATA3) (1 Ultra M.2 PCIe Gen3x4). More system builders these days are making NVMe SSD drives the primary boot device; it is exceedingly fast boasting high read/write speed numbers.
The ASRock Taichi motherboard has plenty of external port of choice, starting with, 1-USB 3.2 Gen2x2 20Gb/s Rear Type-C,3 USB 3.2 Gen2 10Gb/s (2 Rear Type-A, 1 Front Type-C), 9 USB 3.2 Gen1 (4 Front, 5 Rear). So many ports, so many external devices you can connect to your PC build. The audio option includes a 7.1 CH HD Realtek ALC1220 Codec, Nahimic Audio.
Out of all the features on this motherboard, the most intriguing is the Dragon 2.5 Gigabit LAN, Intel Gigabit LAN, which will offer potential consumers a fast Internet connection. Staying on Internet connection, you're finding more motherboards on the market embedded with quality WiFi chips. This motherboard has that, having an Intel WiFi 6 802.11ax (2.4Gbps + BT 5.1, the latest generation wireless standard technology.
For all you PC builders that desire RGB lighting, this motherboard does support ASRock's Polychrome SYNC technology.
