3 - I did not get anything for free. I had to purchase what I have. I don't do reviews so I have no brand loyalty. I am just not sure why you are so salty about someone else's opinion/review score. Let it go man, this was a year ago.
I am not Salty with the reviewer...
Why I am salty with ASRock ?
Coherent list of stupidity we have to undergo with the ASRock X370 Taichi now:
Bios P4.40 or higher is mandatory for 2nd Gen Ryzen.
1- OVERCLOCK
If you want manual OC you need "ASRock setting" and by that you will lose up to 18% mem bandwidth. You can't OVERCLOCK with an overclocking board that is more than a year old now
Bios - present on previous bios but then we had a workaround. From 4.40 and up there is no workaround, so no overclocking. Hurts 1st and 2nd gen CPU's
2-CLOCK GENERATOR/BCLK
You purchased this ASRock hardware thinking of overclock ? No candy... More than a year later and now BCLK overclocking is BROKEN again and that's along with any manual overclocking. 103MHz ? Every board can do that without a clockgen.
Bios 4.40, 4.64, 4.60, 4.70. Hurts 1st and 2nd gen CPU's
3-P-STATE Setting/OC ?
You just can't P-state, it won't work .
Bios 4.40, 4.64, 4.60, 4.70. Hurts 1st and 2nd gen CPU's
4-SCALAR ADJUSTMENT
You heard about it on the ASUS thread, wer their guys are enjoying everything you miss ??
Yeah, Scalar is a minor thing in the bigger realm of issues of an overclocking board that can't overclock.
This setting has been removed from any bios that came after 4.40. Scalar is still a working "feature" but is hidden and defaulted to "100", or maximum value.
Bios 4.64, 4.60, 4.70. Hurts 1st and 2nd gen CPU's
5-AMD CBS Memory Timings
You can't overclock with this board so you need to rely on AMD CBS. Here you have the most lazy work on the adjustments for "Memory Timings" under "AMD CBS". You can't enter values and so you select from a drop-down list...There you have HEX numbers, but you also you have missing HEX values and you have mistyped values. If your overclock fails, you will net to re-enter everything again as you will see right bellow on #6.
Bios - Since forever... We are living with these since the introduction of this section... Board is more than a year old. Hurts 1st and 2nd gen CPU's
6-SAVE PROFILE
You don't have a functional way to "Save Profiles" because ASRock bios team decided everything under "Advanced" is useless and not worth their precious time - Overclocking board that can't save overclocking settings like "Core Performance Boost", "Global C-States", all you memory timings/configs and so on... Oh, all your freaking Memory timings that took you 5 minutes to write down because you typed in HEX numbers ( tx ASRock ) ??? Guess what happens if your memory overclock fails ??? Yes, you will need to type those nice HEX numbers again since you can't save profiles and this board is more than a year old !! Hurts 1st and 2nd gen CPU's
To ASRock:
The state of this boards bios is just a DISGRACE, there is not other way to call it.
Let's get real, it's been more than freaking year now, all the other vendors advanced with the functionality of their boards while ASRock seems to be going backwards.
AMD's fault ? I don't think...
1- AMD is not responsible for your BIOS team not being capable of making a functional "Save settings" that can actually save things.
2- AMD is not responsible for your BIOS team missing values, mistyping valuex and all HEX values in your memory timings section under AMD CBS .
3- AMD is not responsible for you producing a overclocking board that can't overclock without dropping the memory performance down to 18%.
5- AMD is not responsible for the shi*load of problems described here that are still present after so many bios releases and many for far more than half a year.
We are not looking for workarounds and we don't want excuses and specially, we don't want tips from "people" who don't own the hardware but are always willing to play the "blame user/amd" game.
All we want is a functional board with decent bios.
You can check more people pissed by the
ASRock forums
