Friday, June 24th 2022
ASRock Shares Some More Details About its X670E Taichi Motherboard
It would appear that we're slowly getting closer to the launch of AMD's AM5 platform, as ASRock just put up its first X670E motherboard on its website. The page still has very limited information and there's only a single picture of the motherboard, which is the same one that the company shared at Computex. However, we now get a few more details with regards to what to expect in terms of additional features. For starters, ASRock has gone for a 26-phase SPS Dr.MOS power design, which should be plenty even for the most avid overclocker. The board has a pair of PCIe 5.0 x16 slots that operate in dual x8 mode when both slots are used. In addition to this there are four M.2 slots, where ASRock has decided to call the CPU connected slot for Blazing, as it's PCIe 5.0, whereas the three PCIe 4.0 slots are using the Hyper name the company has used so far.
The board also has eight SATA ports, two Thunderbolt 4 ports, which apparently are USB4 certified as well and a header for a USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 (20 Gbps) case mounted port. Furthermore the board has five rear USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10 Gbps) USB-A ports around the back, plus three USB 3.2 Gen 1 (5 Gbps) ports and a further four via headers, as well as a single HDMI port of unknown version. ASRock has gone for an Intel Killer E3100G 2.5 Gbps Ethernet controller and an Intel Killer AX1675X WiFi 6E and Bluetooth card, with the combo having Killer DoubleShot Pro support. Finally audio is via a Realtek ALC4082 USB connected audio codec and an ESS Sabre 9218 DAC. Overall this looks like a pretty kitted out board without too much excessive bling and will hopefully be priced accordingly.
Sources:
ASRock, via @planet3dnow
The board also has eight SATA ports, two Thunderbolt 4 ports, which apparently are USB4 certified as well and a header for a USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 (20 Gbps) case mounted port. Furthermore the board has five rear USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10 Gbps) USB-A ports around the back, plus three USB 3.2 Gen 1 (5 Gbps) ports and a further four via headers, as well as a single HDMI port of unknown version. ASRock has gone for an Intel Killer E3100G 2.5 Gbps Ethernet controller and an Intel Killer AX1675X WiFi 6E and Bluetooth card, with the combo having Killer DoubleShot Pro support. Finally audio is via a Realtek ALC4082 USB connected audio codec and an ESS Sabre 9218 DAC. Overall this looks like a pretty kitted out board without too much excessive bling and will hopefully be priced accordingly.
38 Comments on ASRock Shares Some More Details About its X670E Taichi Motherboard
I'd probably prefer an X300 style layout, with 24 available lanes (16 + 4 + 4), and an OCP3.0 - style NIC slot.
A low profile, slim all flash NAS.
Of course, such a setup is extremely niche (QNAPs low end all flash NASes are present, though), and anyone who really, really wants an all flash NAS usually also scales to rackmount EPYCs and their 128 lanes of PCIe.
Marketing bullshit is strong with this oneYou know that there are very cheap pcie to m.2 breakout boards right? m.2 is a bad format for MASSIVE storage, if you have money to blow you should be looking at u.2, if not stay with SATA. m.2 makes no sense either way.
26 powerstages... ?!
and i thought the w0rd on the street is 7000s will have AVX-512,
so there you go.
Think of what they could do with the space taken up by these unnecessarily overbuilt VRM systems. Not to mention how much cheaper the board would be...
So 26 phase vrm ain't no big deal imo. :)
Asus is down to only 4 on many of their boards and MSI and Gigabyte is down to 6
Seems like the only way out of that problem is to buy a HBA card with more SATA ports since all the motherboard makers love to remove SATA ports which is very annoying if you have lots of hard drives
With GPU´s taking up as much as 4 slots there might not even be room for a HBA card so thats even more annoying
Why Asrock can have 8 SATA ports and nobody else can is something i cant understand i am almost forced to buy Asrock for that reason alone and my last Asrock boards have been a nightmare
I dont want another looping of the pcie slots discussion though so will keep this as my only comment on it in this thread.
As shilka said SATA ports are also been eroded away over time, the amount of boards with 8 seems to shrink every gen. M.2 killing off both of these types of i/o.
The board doesnt look ATX but MATX...
And m.2 is ridiculous, give me a pcie ssd any day
en.wikichip.org/wiki/amd/ryzen_threadripper#5900-Series_.28Zen_3.29
They may be pricey but Im the kind that just mainly replaces gpus and other pci cards over time.
If you need a lot of PCIe though I get it, but you could arguably buy an AM5 gaming system and an AM5 productivity system with the slots bifurcated for the same cost.