Overclocking

The ASRock X299 Taichi CLX showed quite a bit of headroom for overclocking. I was able to get into Windows at 5.0 GHz and 1.3 V core voltage, but the system instantly crashed under load. 4.9 GHz tested stable at 1.3 V with some applications, but crashed in AVX heavy workloads.


The postcode display on the ASRock X299 Taichi is well placed for easy problem diagnosis, on the bottom of the board, below the M.2 heatsink.




When it comes to memory clock stability, the ASRock X299 Taichi did well. XMP was perfectly stable, and I was able to get up to 4000 MHz without touching voltages on my T-Force Extreem kit in a dual channel configuration.

It is always difficult to judge overclocking potential on a new CPU. ASRock has all the right ingredients—namely, a powerful VRM and fully featured BIOS.