ASRock Announces Z790 Taichi Lite and B650E Taichi Lite Motherboards

[btarunr]

Taichi Lite series is here! Based on the existing Z790/B650E Taichi motherboard, the Taichi Lite kept the original specs & features but with less RGB & simpler exterior design. Taichi Lite series motherboard will be focusing purely on the functionality, performance and durability, and with the new simplified design concept, ASRock has brought the long awaited affordable high end motherboard finally back to the market.

Both Z790/B650E Taichi Lite motherboard will be equipped with 24 phase VRM for Vcore to give unlimited CPU performance, other exciting features and technologies are also available too, such as PCIe 5.0 technology for graphics cards and M.2 SSDs, an incredible IO that includes the latest USB4 offering a fast and simple level of connection for work or home.



Z790 Taichi Lite is equipped with 60 W PD 3.0 fast charging, compatible with smartphones, tablets and laptops which can take advantage of quicker recharge times while users are at their PC, and without the need for a costly PD charger.

Motherboard has been increasingly luxury especially on the high end segment, with those boutique looking design and fancy RGB effects, these cost adders lead motherboard prices exploded for the past few years, but with the new Taichi Lite series motherboards, ASRock has successfully brought affordable yet featured filled flagship motherboard back to the masses!

For more information, visit the product pages of the Z790 Taichi Lite and B650E Taichi Lite.

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[wNotyarD]

Lite, but still EATX?

 

[Ruru]

Lite, but still EATX?

"the Taichi Lite kept the original specs & features but with less RGB & simpler exterior design"

Not like cut-down graphics cards. Just to make a little more friendly for customers' wallet.

 

[wNotyarD]

Just to make a little more friendly for customers' wallet.

This one I'll wait to see, especially south of the equator.

But still, both X570 and Z690 Taichi were ATX. Guess I'm hoping for a Taichi Mini (or something along those lines) then.

 

[Dristun]

Interesting. That Z790 has a chance to become the cheapest board with native 2xThunderbolt.

 

[Upgrayedd]

I love how they try to blame the outrageous mobo prices on RGB, hilarious.
I'd much much rather see an Z790 OCF than a "lite" Taichi that is still covered in all those stupid gears and cogs.

 

[Shou Miko]

I love how they try to blame the outrageous mobo prices on RGB, hilarious.
I'd much much rather see an Z790 OCF than a "lite" Taichi that is still covered in all those stupid gears and cogs.

It's only cosmetic now you can always wrap or respray

 

[ZoneDymo]

Wonder if they are still into that sweet sweet NFT business

 

[Nanochip]

Does it come with a ‘lite’ price?

 

[chrcoluk]

Seems to have similar design mistakes to my board.

My board has the cpu1 fan header placed so its under the heatsink, so would need to think ahead and connect fan to it before installing heatsink (although I think is also fair argument to say if not doing this its on the builder), this board seems to have gone one step further and also placed cpu2 fan header below it as well.

Wifi slot has the fragile antennaes connected to it directly under a multi slot gpu which if not careful when installing can yank them out of their slots, I guess on the wifi boards which have it preinstalled perhaps have those wires neatly out the way but when manually slotting one in the placement and loose wires can easily be caught on the gpu, ironically they changed the angle of the slot on the z790 steel legend which made me assume asrock realised their mistake (on that board the end of the card wouldnt be under gpu unless its a triple slotter) but seems it might just be coincidence as they reverted to the poorer design on this board.

Only 2 pcie slots for a flagship seems very weak. Although it does at least have proper m.2 covers that seem to not share standoffs with m.2 underneath Also look better thickness than my board.

 

[Chaitanya]

Does it come with a ‘lite’ price?

Apparently its is supposed to be cheaper than "normal" board.

 

[A Computer Guy]

Apparently its is supposed to be cheaper than "normal" board.

I was hoping for a reasonably priced Taichi sometime after Ryzen 8000 launches.

 

[atomek]

Too bad it is not mATX or ITX. I would like to see what is the percentage of people actually using ATX (like having more than two PCI-E cards installed)

 

[wNotyarD]

Too bad it is not mATX or ITX. I would like to see what is the percentage of people actually using ATX (like having more than two PCI-E cards installed)

I say I don't need more than a single PCIe x16 slot, but man do I have an interest in as many M.2 as possible in any form factor.

 

[lukart]

Strange how the RGB can affect the price so much, but ey no complains I dont really use it so this is good news.

 

[atomek]

I say I don't need more than a single PCIe x16 slot, but man do I have an interest in as many M.2 as possible in any form factor.

With mATX you have 2 NVME slots = 8TB in total. Having a bigger motherboard is just waste today, I think less than 1% of people have a solid use case for ATX, while most prefer compact and well ventilated cases. And it is mATX / ITX cases with horizontal mobo mounting where you get the best cooling performance (when gravity works in favour of both CPU and GPU heatsink heatpipes). ATX made sense 20 years ago when people needed extra slots for sound cards, NICs or GPUs working in SLI. Nowadays it makes no sense to build a PC on anything larger than mATX (and actually hurts cooling performance).

 

[A Computer Guy]

I say I don't need more than a single PCIe x16 slot, but man do I have an interest in as many M.2 as possible in any form factor.

I think mATX size makes sense for Ryzen given the limited PCIe lanes but then there are 3, 4, and 5 slot GPU's now so there is that issue making slots below the first x16 harder to access.

 

[Deleted member 232534]

With mATX you have 2 NVME slots = 8TB in total. Having a bigger motherboard is just waste today, I think less than 1% of people have a solid use case for ATX, while most prefer compact and well ventilated cases. And it is mATX / ITX cases with horizontal mobo mounting where you get the best cooling performance (when gravity works in favour of both CPU and GPU heatsink heatpipes). ATX made sense 20 years ago when people needed extra slots for sound cards, NICs or GPUs working in SLI. Nowadays it makes no sense to build a PC on anything larger than mATX (and actually hurts cooling performance).

you can run nvme drives in an adapter directly in pcie slot. If you have a slot with bifurcation this is even 4 drives for a slot.

In my matx I believe it is possible to run up 8 nvme drives with iGPU or 4 nvme with dedicated GPU in pcie4x16 slot.

You are absolutely correct maybe 1% needs atx in a desktop.

 

[Dristun]

Grug sees big, grig thinks gud, don't want your little square motherboards!

 

[Gatt]

EATX this one too ... bye-bye ASRock.

Since my Z690 Taichi (ATX) cold not manage my 4080 I already went for the ASUS ROG Strix Z790-E.

 

[Bagerklestyne]

Apparently its is supposed to be cheaper than "normal" board.

Steve @ HUB said when they spotted it at computex ASRock employees alluded to it (The B650E lite) being 80-100 USD cheaper than the 'full fat' one currently on sale

 

[ADB1979]

I was hoping for a reasonably priced Taichi sometime after Ryzen 8000 launches.

Likewise.

The current generation of CPU's, RAM and motherboards have been price prohibitive. To be fair, the CPU's have not been the problem, the problem has been that this is the first outing of DDR5 in the consumer space, and prices have already dropped dramatically, whilst performance has gone up.

The motherboards are another story. The chipset(s) cost the same as last generation, the problem with the costs come down to a bump in overall specifications, the extra (expensive) re-drivers for PCIe Gen 5, and the higher end board being 12-layers vs the typical 8 layers of Zen 3 boards. All of these things add up, then add the totally unnecessary bells, whistles, lights etc and they become very expensive.

I am going to wait for "Strix Halo" to be unveiled before I consider my next platform upgrade. It is still somewhat of a mystery, but having quad-channel RAM (configuration unknown), this is looking like it could be great, but without details being confirmed we just do not know. That and I expect, but do not know that there will be new chipsets with the Ryzen 8000 series, a bump in RAM speeds etc, this is my DDR5 entry-point most likely.

Since my Z690 Taichi (ATX) cold not manage my 4080 I already went for the ASUS ROG Strix Z790-E.

Please add some more detail, I do not understand why one motherboard would work with your graphics card, but another wont