Overclocking

The ASRock X570 Taichi proved a little underwhelming in the overclocking department, though with a new CPU sample, it is hard to say how much of that is due to the board. My Ryzen 5 3600X, kindly provided by ASRock, managed a maximum clock of 4475 MHz at 1.45 V, though I ended up with 4400 MHz to be entirely stable for the VRM torture test. This is a 200 MHz all-core improvement over stock, but if you were hoping for 5 GHz, you are likely to be disappointed.


The postcode display on the ASRock X570 Taichi is well placed for easy problem diagnosis, on the bottom of the board, below the M.2 heatsink. ASRock has included BIOS Flashback for recovery in worst case scenarios.




When it comes to memory clock stability, the ASRock X570 Taichi did very well. XMP was perfectly stable, and I was able to get up to 3933 MHz without touching voltages on my T-Force Extreem kit. Given the nature of the Infinity Fabric AMD is using with Ryzen 3000 processors, this is more than enough to reach the ideal 3733 MHz. It is great to see improved memory support for the AMD platform.

If I had one issue with the ASRock X570 Taichi while tweaking memory, it was that the board booted with stock settings anytime an overclock failed with no indication of it until I got into Windows. A prompt on post that the board had failed and booted in the last stable configuration, like ASRock has implemented on their Intel motherboards, would have been nice.