Closer Look / Product Photos
The motherboard arrived in a retail package which protects its contents well and is not so large at the same time. Exterior has nearly full description of the motherboard and its key features.
The retail package includes everything required for installation like SATA cables, M.2 screws, I/O shield, HB SLI bridges, DVD with software, WiFi antennas and user’s manual.
The X399M Taichi motherboard looks really amazing. This micro ATX motherboard has three PCIe 3.0 x16 slots, all full speed and with support for SLI and CrossFire. There are also three 32Gbps M.2 sockets with RAID support. Except that we can use 8 SATA ports and 2 U.2 connectors. It’s not all. Except 10 USB 3.0/3.1 ports on the back of the motherboard, there are also 2 USB 3.1 and 2 USB 2.0 headers. On the specification list you can see what else you may find and the list is really long.
The X399M supports all processors from AMD Threadripper series. There are only four of them but it’s enough. For tests we will use the 1920X so 12-core version. In couple of months will be released refreshed CPU series so you can count that this motherboard will also support new Threadripper processors.
Going back to the motherboard itself, there are many thing to talk about since not often we can see micro ATX motherboard so well equipped.
One thing which is not hard to miss is that the X399M Taichi has four memory slots. We can use up to 64GB RAM what is more than enough for most users. In our tests we will include 32GB and 64GB memory kits to check how well the motherboard handles lower and higher capacity memory.
Power design is similar to what we could see in the top X299 motherboards so 11-phase section, well cooled by large heatsink. There are absolutely no issues with temperatures, even at much higher voltages. ASRock software was showing between 30°C and 65°C during mixed load tests.
The X399M has couple of features which are really handy for overclockers. I mean power and reset buttons on-board, BIOS code display and BIOS Flashback. All who are into extreme overclocking know how much it helps during longer overclocking sessions.
Above are also couple of additional photos as the X399M Taichi was used in other reviews in last weeks and we will still present you couple of new products tested on this motherboard.
For our tests has been used Noctua air cooling which handles our 12-core processor without any issues.
