Friday, October 5th 2018
ASRock Announces Z390 Taichi, Z390 Taichi Ultimate Motherboards
ASRock today announced their Taichi family of Z390 motherboards. The new Taichi motherboards (whose branding has garnered somewhat of a cult following among PC component enthusiasts due to their build-quality and reliability) are being placed in the top of the heap for ASRock's Z390 push.
The 8th and 9th Gen supporting motherboards feature the same 12-phase power delivery design for outstanding power delivery, as well as some other features such as an integrated M.2 shield and ASRock's Polychrome RGB lighting solution. Hyper BCLK Engine II also makes an appearance on both motherboards, for higher overclocking stability and capabilities. Other added features include ASRock's Purity Sound 4 with Realtek's ALC1220 audio codec. The Taichi Ultimate, however, ups the ante by delivering an Aquantia Ethernet solution (AQtion) with 10 Gbps throughput for the ultimate experience - though you'll need to make sure your infrastructure supports these speeds, and that you have a Cat6 Ethernet cable handy.
Both motherboards also feature 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort outputs, 8x SATA 3, 3x Ultra M.2 slots with a single M.2 cooling solution, support for 4200 MHz+ DDR4 memory (via OC), 5x USB 3.1 Gen2 (1x Front Type-C, 1x Rear Type-C, 3x Rear Type-A) and 8x additional USB 3.1 Gen1 (4x Front, 4x Rear). Check out the board images and promotional videos below.
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The 8th and 9th Gen supporting motherboards feature the same 12-phase power delivery design for outstanding power delivery, as well as some other features such as an integrated M.2 shield and ASRock's Polychrome RGB lighting solution. Hyper BCLK Engine II also makes an appearance on both motherboards, for higher overclocking stability and capabilities. Other added features include ASRock's Purity Sound 4 with Realtek's ALC1220 audio codec. The Taichi Ultimate, however, ups the ante by delivering an Aquantia Ethernet solution (AQtion) with 10 Gbps throughput for the ultimate experience - though you'll need to make sure your infrastructure supports these speeds, and that you have a Cat6 Ethernet cable handy.
19 Comments on ASRock Announces Z390 Taichi, Z390 Taichi Ultimate Motherboards
geesh, wtf is wrong with these people (and the other mobo makers too)
They took everything down. No mention on Z390 at all now.
They kept it for what, like 15 hours or so?
Such a stupid limitation from Intel for hi-end motherboard like taichi.
I installed EK finned heatsinks on both of my m.2 drives and immediately saw their everyday real world operating temps drop from 44c to 35c....
Of note though, I have them installed in pcie slots instead of under the gpu, and I have boatloads of airflow through my case too, but still a 9 degree reduction is nuthin to sneeze at IMHO :DAgreed about this stupid limitation on a $400+++ mobo, however, with more and more folks making the transition to m.2 drives, having 6 or 8 sata ports is becoming less of an issue nowadays :). I only use 4 at most anyways, for 2x optical drives, 1x AIO pump, and my fan controller.
All the M.2 drives I've seen almost never throttle with reads, only with writes. And you have to write 100GB+ constant before the drive starts to throttle, which is not something most users do on a regular day to day basis.Very good, you went from not throttling to not throttling. Those heatsinks did absolutely nothing for you. Lowering temps is nice, but if it doesn't improve performance one bit, it's kind of pointless. And it isn't like 44°c is going to kill the drive either.
They used to do wicked halo products with the 9 and 11 series. For some reason these don't have the same appeal for me.
A) I do write large files to my 2nd drive constantly....
B) I was not implying that my drives were throttling or that I was seeking performance improvements, only keeping my drives as cool as possible...
And finally.....
C) we all know that heat and electronics do not go together well, therefore anything one can do to reduce it is a win-win IMHO.... I prefer to make mine last as long as possible thank you....
wd m2 ssd is .87 inch / 22mm this fan is 25 mm ? slap it right on the sink for example
www.amazon.com/Pieces-Brushless-Cooling-Small-Micro/dp/B01406OSNE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1538925649&sr=8-1&keywords=micro+computer+fan