Today, we’ll be taking a look at the ASRock X870E Taichi Motherboard. It’s one of ASRock’s flagship motherboards featuring AMD’s newest X870E chipset and supports all the Ryzen 7000, 8000 and latest 9000 series of processors on the AM5 socket.
It features a powerful 24+2+1 Power Phases, 110 Amp SPS for VCore and 20K Black capacitors, for superb stability and reliability.
It’s equipped with a massive aluminium composite VRM heatsink, which combines a cooling fan and a heat-pipe for maximum heat dissipation.
Expansion slots include 2 x PCIE 5.0 x16 slots, and 4 x DDR5 DIMM slots supporting XMP and AMD EXPO memory modules up to speeds of DDR5-8200+.
For storage, you get a total of 6 x SATA ports, 1 x Blazing M.2 PCIE Gen5 slot, and 3 x Hyper M.2 PCIE Gen4 slots. The motherboard includes 2 x unique M.2 Heatsinks, which features a tool-less design and a quick-release notch for easy installation of SSDs. What’s more, the graphics card EZ Release design allows hassle-free installation and removal of GPUs.
On the back I/O panel, there are 4 x USB2.0 ports, 2 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports, 4 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports, 2 x Super Fast USB 4 Type-C ports.
Other features include the Realtek 7.1 HD Nahimic audio with WIMA caps, a total of 21 USB ports (12 rear, 9 front), WiFi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4. And finally, you also get the latest USB4 ports and 1 x 5GbE LAN for super fast connectivity.
AMD X870E Chipset
When only the fastest will do, an AMD X870E motherboard delivers. With USB 4.0 onboard along with robust overclocking capabilities, featuring faster dual-channel DDR5 memory support, AMD EXPO™ technology and PCIe® 5.0 support for both graphics and NVMe, you can play the most demanding games and deliver your biggest projects with the revolutionary performance of an AMD X870E motherboard and AMD Ryzen™ 9000, 8000, and 7000 Series processors.
Here you can see the main difference between the X870 and the X870E chipsets. The X870 will have a total of 36 useable PCIE lanes, while the higher end X870E will have a total of 44 useable PCIE lanes, and support for more higher speed USB ports.
Why are PCIE lanes important? Well, the number of PCIE lanes in a slot or connection determines the available bandwidth for data transfer between the motherboard and the expansion card. More lanes generally mean higher data transfer rates and better performance. For the X870, there’s a total of 36 PCIE usuable lanes versus 44 PCIE lanes for the X870E.
I would like to thank ASRock for providing the review sample. This is a snippet from what ASRock has to say about themselves on their website:
ASRock Inc. is established in 2002, specialized in the field of motherboards. ASRock strives to build up its own brand. With the 3C design concept, “Creativity, Consideration, Cost-effectiveness”, the company explores the limit of motherboards manufacturing while paying attention on the eco issue at the same time, developing products with the consideration of eco-friendly concept.
ASRock has been growing fast and become world third largest motherboard brand with headquarter in Taipei, Taiwan and branches in Europe and the USA. The young and vibrant company targets from mainstream to enthusiast MB segments for different kinds of users, owning reputation around the world market with its reliability and proficiency.
We’ll be testing the ASRock X870E Taichi Motherboard with an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X processor, along with 32GB of Patriot Xtreme 5 MPOWER DDR5-8000, Crucial T700 PCIE Gen5 SSD, and a GeForce RTX 4080 Super graphics card.
Armed with the world’s fastest consumer processor in 2024 (according to AMD), paired with a high-end 870E chipset motherboard … I’m expecting to get some excellent results in all of our benchmarks. So let’s find out if it’s true.
OK, let’s dive straight in and start by taking a look at the specifications and features in our next page.
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