ASRock B650E Taichi Motherboard Review

Installation

For our installation, we used the our standard Open Chassis. The ASRock B650E Taichi motherboard comes in an E-ATX form factor, so it’s lightly bigger than your standard ATX size, but luckily we were able to fit it on our Open Chassis … so no issues here. We also used a Cooler Master MasterLiquid PL240 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 is 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. Our Kingston FURY Beast RGB DDR5-6000 is fully EXPO certified, so all we had to do was to enable EXPO profile in the BIOS and that’s it/

If you select “Advanced Mode”, you’ll then see all the other 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.