While wandering through the Computex showrooms, our little spies spotted something interesting at the ASRock stand: an extensive lineup of motherboards built around the AMD X870 and X870E chipsets. The six models from the ASRock, Pro, Steel, Phantom Gaming, and the legendary Taichi families support the latest AMD Ryzen 9000, 8000, and 7000 series processors. We had the opportunity to see them live on display and rushed to present them one by one, complete with pictures and main specifications.Now we're going to look further in detail:

ASRock X870E Taichi / X870E Taichi Lite
The motherboards have different form factors, and different designs but both of them feature an impressive 27 power phase with 110 A SPS, 2 PCIe 5.0 x16 slots, 1 Blazing M.2 (PCIe Gen 5 x4) plus 3 Hyper M.2 (PCIe Gen 4 x4) slots, and Realtek 5GbE LAN connectivity. Regarding audio, it has an ALC4082 audio codec and ESS SABRE 9218 DACASRock X870E Nova WiFi
Here we have a 23 power phase CPU VRM, a single PCIe 5.0 x16 slot but one additional M.2 (PCIe Gen 3 x2) slot. The audio features are powered by an ALC 4048 audio codec without any dedicated DAC.ASRock X870 Riptide WiFi
A motherboard dedicated to gamers, sporting a 17 power phase, 80 A Dr.MOS CPU VRM, 1x PCIe 5.0 x16 slot, 1 Blazing M.2 (PCIe Gen 5 x4) and 3 Hyper M.2 (PCIe Gen 4 x4) slots. To help gamers achieve the lowest latency possible, ASRock implemented the Intel Killer 2.5GbE LAN instead of the Realtek one.ASRock X870 Steel Legend WiFi / X870 PRO RS WiFi
These two models are more like all-rounders, suitable for a wide range of users. Both use a 17 power phase, 80 A Dr.MOS CPU VRM, 1 Blazing M.2 (PCIe Gen 5 x4), 2x Hyper M.2 (PCIe Gen 4 x4) slots (1x Ultra M.2 PCIe Gen 3 x4 slot for Pro RS), while ALC4082 audio codec is present on the Steel Legend WiFi, and ALC1220 on the Pro RS WiFi.