Power Consumption and Temperatures

When it comes time to consider cooling, the ASRock X370 Taichi is very well equipped, even under a considerable overclock. With AMD's new Summit Ridge platform, the Ryzen CPUs can run pretty hot, and good cooling is truly required. At the height of power consumption my now-old Corsair H100 AIO cooler can deal with, the ASRock X370 Taichi performs admirably. It is also worth noting the low idle power consumption even with all eight cores of the Ryzen 1700X CPU pegged at 3.9 GHz. A recent BIOS update has greatly lowered overclocked power consumption yet temperatures on the CPU itself haven't dropped very much, but what has changed is the ability to push my particular CPU a bit further than it did at launch. I'm a bit confused by this to be honest; halving power consumption and getting higher clocks is odd for sure, but that just goes to show how AMD's Ryzen platform has matured since the core part of that BIOS update is a different AGESA, which the board makers get from AMD. So now, my Ryzen CPU is better than before and that's thanks to AMD's update, not ASRock's. Where this becomes important, however, is in noting that even when power consumption was nearly twice what it is now, the ASRock Taichi didn't sweat one bit, so no matter what CPU you plop into the X370 Taichi, you can rest assured ASRock's power and cooling design here on the X370 Taichi is up to the task.