ASRock X870E Taichi

[Combatus]

The ASRock X870E Taichi comes at $450, which is a relatively affordable price point for an X870E board, yet features everything the new platform brings, like USB4, Wi-Fi 7, and more. In our review we really liked the strong cooling on the VRM and M.2 slots.

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[GabrielLP14]

Oh nice to see another review, just a shame that the AMD Platform in random SSD performance still sucks way more than intel, look at those horrible random reads and writes at QD1

 

[Quicks]

Meh, motherboard prices need to decrease drastically before I will consider upgrading again.

 

[Rowsol]

"Lacks standout features present on more expensive boards"

For 450 dollars I'd expect everything and more. Does anyone actually buy these things?

 

[kapone32]

This is the only board in the X870E range that gives you both PCIe lanes connected to the CPU. That alone will sell this board.

 

[Code3]

I still don't understand why only the b650e has a pcie5 side m2 port since they are all e-atx, dissipate where needed. Come on, don't increase the heat where there is already too much of it right above the gpu hidden in the corner between the hottest components

 

[A Computer Guy]

"Lacks standout features present on more expensive boards"

For 450 dollars I'd expect everything and more. Does anyone actually buy these things

I would have considered paying $450 if they would have done something like this below and moved the secondary NVMe's to the back of the board like they do with ITX.
Then you could do x16/x4/x4 or x8/x8/x4/x4 with the choice of sharing lanes for x4/x4 with the 2nd PCIe and x4/x4 with the last two PCIe slots giving a wide variety of choices for system configuration between using NVMe or PCIe slots. I hope someone at Asrock reads this and they decide to come out with X870E Taichi Ultra Razor Edition.

 

[Chaitanya]

X870E Pro Art is similarly priced(there seem to be some combo savings so wont be too much more than this board) and it has much better connectivity(10Gbps NIC and better PCIe slot layout) so overall even though I avoid Shitsus products like a plague wont mind getting that ProArt board thanks to better feature set.

 

[hoxlund14]

X870E Pro Art is similarly priced(there seem to be some combo savings so wont be too much more than this board) and it has much better connectivity(10Gbps NIC and better PCIe slot layout) so overall even though I avoid Shitsus products like a plague wont mind getting that ProArt board thanks to better feature set.

Careful when populating all m.2 slots on that proart. It neutters pcie drastically.

This alone was the reason I gave up 10gb LAN and decided against that pro art board. I bought this x870e taichi after inspecting ALL x870e board's manuals out there, this was the only one that allows full pci-e 5.0 on the main port while at the same time populate every m.2 slot. with no speed compromises

This is the only board in the X870E range that gives you both PCIe lanes connected to the CPU. That alone will sell this board.

Thank you for bringing that up as well.

 

[phints]

$450 for a motherboard?!?! That'll be a nope from me.

Let me know when there is a ~$200 mATX one.

 

[hoxlund14]

$450 for a motherboard?!?! That'll be a nope from me.

Let me know when there is a ~$200 mATX one.

Board has a $60 MIR on newegg. Already got mine back, was super fast. So $389.99 right now for asrocks flagship x870e board. Not bad at all.

Or skip RGB and go taichi lite and keep every single other regular taichi feature. save another $50. Makes that board $339.99

 

[phints]

Board has a $60 MIR on newegg. Already got mine back, was super fast. So $389.99 right now for asrocks flagship x870e board. Not bad at all.

Still a joke of a price for a motherboard. And what are the boot times since they seem slow and highly motherboard dependant for AMD AM5 still.

 

[Prince Valiant]

Can you remove the CMOS battery without removing the shroud? It's annoying but possible on the X670E version, this looks to be impossible. Moving the debug LED and power and reset buttons to the top is a good change.

I would have considered paying $450 if they would have done something like this below and moved the secondary NVMe's to the back of the board like they do with ITX.
Then you could do x16/x4/x4 or x8/x8/x4/x4 with the choice of sharing lanes for x4/x4 with the 2nd PCIe and x4/x4 with the last two PCIe slots giving a wide variety of choices for system configuration between using NVMe or PCIe slots. I hope someone at Asrock reads this and they decide to come out with X870E Taichi Ultra Razor Edition.

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I wish there was a board with that many PCIe slots .

 

[hoxlund14]

Can you remove the CMOS battery without removing the shroud? It's annoying but possible on the X670E version, this looks to be impossible. Moving the debug LED and power and reset buttons to the top is a good change.

I wish there was a board with that many PCIe slots .

Unfortunately you would have to remove the shroud to get at the cmos battery. But there is a clear cmos jumper, but if your battery truly dies.. ya. Removing the chipset heatsink.

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

$450 for a motherboard?!?! That'll be a nope from me.

Let me know when there is a ~$200 mATX one.

i remember when $150 was a good board, ala B550 mortar, and $220 got you a high end board.

 

[csendesmark]

This is the only board in the X870E range

There are others,
I chose the Asus ProArt X870E because it gives 2 PCIe 8× (v5.0)
And it also has one PCIe 4× (v4.0)

$450 for a motherboard?!?! That'll be a nope from me.

Let me know when there is a ~$200 mATX one.

Don't worry, the B850 will be here sooner or later

 

[A Computer Guy]

i remember when $150 was a good board, ala B550 mortar, and $220 got you a high end board.

Honestly I wonder how well vendors are doing selling these $400+ boards as the past few years haven't been very kind to wallets in many places. I am surprisingly satisfied with my $150 B560 LiveMixer however in terms of PCIe slots AM5 loses to X570 in my opinion and my $220 X570 Taichi still reigns supreme in terms of expandability at about half the cost of these newer high end motherboards. For a long term socket lack of expansion slots is not a good thing but I suppose outside of workstation uses what is there really for average end-user to plug-in other than a GPU and M.2 these days while complaining about misbehaving integrated NICs?

 

[breakfromyou]

Cool, I don't know why I was expecting some kind of change within BIOS. The BIOS is nearly identical to the B650M-HDV/M.2.

Considering what ASRock has pulled off on the Intel side over the past couple years (Z590 OCF!), what's the deal with all the AMD Boards basically being the same? It's not exactly bad to have it that way, but even some mediocre RAM tweaking presets would be awesome for the extra $300 over the HDV.

 

[Dr. Dro]

"Lacks standout features present on more expensive boards"

For 450 dollars I'd expect everything and more. Does anyone actually buy these things?

I was thinking that this motherboard is actually on the cheap end considering what it offers. But yes, we buy boards even twice as pricy, at least I did.

 

[SOAREVERSOR]

Meh, motherboard prices need to decrease drastically before I will consider upgrading again.

Then you are never going to upgrade because as things get more complex the cost will keep going up! There is no way around this.

Or you could just drop out of the enthusiast segment and get bottom barrel parts because that's what you are going to be stuck with until PC gaming is cloud based.

 

[ymdhis]

Who the hell needs 24x 110A phases?

 

[kapone32]

Still a joke of a price for a motherboard. And what are the boot times since they seem slow and highly motherboard dependant for AMD AM5 still.

Long boot times are a thing of the past for AM5.

 

[codex5600x]

To expensive

 

[kapone32]

To expensive

The kicker is that this is the cheapest AM5 X870E board with these features.

 

[Redwoodz]

Why does the AIDA bench show the NorthBridge clock at 3000 and the 870 Hero is at 1866? Even the bench version number is different. Same cpu multiplier, same RAM but mem read is lower and latency is higher. This does not compute.