It’s an epic battle between two of the most awesome X399 motherboards on the market. the Asus ROG Zenith Extreme and the ASRock X399 Taichi. We put these two motherboards to the test to find out which one is the real winner.
Test Setup
For our tests, we used a test rig which includes the ASRock X399 Taichi motherboard/ Asus ROG Zenith Extreme, along with a Ryzen Threadripper 1950X at default clock speed of 3.4 GHz (boost speed 4.0GHz), as well as 32GB of Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR4-3000 ram in quad channel mode.
All tests were conducted using AUTO settings in the BIOS. Monitor resolution was set to 1920×1080, with High or Ultra settings enabled.
| CPU | AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X @ 3.4GHz / boost @ 4.0GHz |
| Cooling | Thermaltake Water 3.0 RGB 360 AIO Cooler |
| Motherboard | ASRock X399 Taichi Asus ROG Zenith Extreme |
| Ram | 32GB Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR4-3000 (4x8GB) |
| XMP 2.0 profiles | Memory timings : 15-17-17-35 @ 1.35v |
| SSD/HDD | Patriot Hellfire PCIE M.2 240GB SSD |
| PSU | Thermaltake Toughpower RGB 750W |
| VGA card | Zotac GeForce GTX 1080 8GB GDDR5 |
| Nvidia Drivers | Latest GeForce Drivers v.385.28 – WHQL |
| OS | Windows 10 |
Asus ROG Zenith Extreme
Read the full review of the Asus ROG Zenith Extreme … Here.
ASRock X399 Taichi
Read the full review of the ASRock X399 Taichi … Here.
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- Buy the ASRock X399 Taichi motherboard – http://amzn.to/2eV9RZH
- Buy the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X – http://amzn.to/2eUrSak
- Buy the Zotac GeForce GTX 1080 – http://amzn.to/2wgOZ1k
- Buy the Corsair Vengeance DDR4-3000 – http://amzn.to/2jctbCT
- Buy the Patriot Hellfire 256GB SSD – http://amzn.to/2wQKyxU
