ASRock B650E Taichi Lite Motherboard Review

Installation

For our installation, we used the our standard Open Chassis. The ASRock B650E Taichi Lite motherboard like the original Taichi comes in an E-ATX form factor, so it’s lightly bigger than your standard ATX size. So make sure your chassis can fit this motherboard.

Luckily, our Open-Frame Chassis had enough room to fit the ASRock B650E Taichi Lite … so no issues here. We also mounted the Cooler Master MasterLiquid PL240 Flux AIO cooler and everything fitted nicely. There was enough room in and around the AM5 processor socket.

BIOS

The BIOS on the ASRock B650E Taichi Lite is literally identical to the original Taichi, and as always it’s pretty easy to use. The 1st page you’ll see the default “Easy Mode” where you can monitor all the system status on this page.

The ASRock B650E Taichi Lite is able to support AMD’s EXPO and Intel’s XMP. In this instance,  we used the Patriot Viper Venom RGB DDR5-6200, which is fully XMP certified. All we had to do was to enable XMP profile in the BIOS and that’s it!

If you select “Advanced Mode”, you’ll then see even more options available for tweaking your processor, memory and more. Voltages for memory and processor can also be adjusted here .

The advanced tab allows users to configure settings for CPU, chipset, storage and NVMe, LEDs, as well as onboard devices such as LAN, audio, and Bluetooth. For overclockers, the BIOS allows CPU and memory overclocking, and you can also set the CPU frequency and voltages too.

For memory compatibility and QVL (qualified vendors list), I recommend you check ASRock’s QVL page here.