As weve seen on previous generations of Taichi motherboards from ASRock, the cogs and gears form the basis of the styling across the entire platform, mixing modern with industrial. Its certainly unique.
The AM4 socket is provided with a 14 power phase design that is bolstered by Dr. MOS power stage solutions for up to 50A continuous current for each phase, giving improved thermals and superior performance.
Keeping the VRMs cool are a pair of interlinked AAL Aluminium Alloy heatsinks, joined together by a substantial heatpipe.
Supporting memory speeds up to 4666MHz and capacities of 128GB, the four DIMM slots are backed by a Premium Memory Alloy Choke with a highly magnetic and heat resistant design for better stability to provide reliable power to the memory modules.
Just above the DIMM slots are a pair of 4-pin PWM fan connections and to the right of the memory slots is the 24-pin power connection, a front USB 3.0 header, another 4-pin PWM fan connection and a front USB 3.2 Gen. 2 jack.
Moving to the bottom of the board, the M.2 and FCH heatsink is all one piece, helping to distribute and dissipate heat as evenly as possible, however to install one M.2 SSD, you need to remove the entire piece. This is what the T8 Torx screw is for.
On the bottom edge of the board is a power and reset switch and a seven-segment display for POST codes.
Removing the heatsink we reveal a trio of M.2 NVMe 4.0 slots, two of which are capable of hosting an 80mm drive and the third up to 110mm. Its worth pointing out here that populating the third NVMe slot will disable the bottom PCI-E x16 slot.
The AM4 socket is provided with a 14 power phase design that is bolstered by Dr. MOS power stage solutions for up to 50A continuous current for each phase, giving improved thermals and superior performance.
Keeping the VRMs cool are a pair of interlinked AAL Aluminium Alloy heatsinks, joined together by a substantial heatpipe.
Supporting memory speeds up to 4666MHz and capacities of 128GB, the four DIMM slots are backed by a Premium Memory Alloy Choke with a highly magnetic and heat resistant design for better stability to provide reliable power to the memory modules.
Just above the DIMM slots are a pair of 4-pin PWM fan connections and to the right of the memory slots is the 24-pin power connection, a front USB 3.0 header, another 4-pin PWM fan connection and a front USB 3.2 Gen. 2 jack.
Moving to the bottom of the board, the M.2 and FCH heatsink is all one piece, helping to distribute and dissipate heat as evenly as possible, however to install one M.2 SSD, you need to remove the entire piece. This is what the T8 Torx screw is for.
On the bottom edge of the board is a power and reset switch and a seven-segment display for POST codes.
Removing the heatsink we reveal a trio of M.2 NVMe 4.0 slots, two of which are capable of hosting an 80mm drive and the third up to 110mm. Its worth pointing out here that populating the third NVMe slot will disable the bottom PCI-E x16 slot.
