ASRock Shares Some More Details About its X670E Taichi Motherboard

[TheLostSwede]

It would appear that we're slowly getting closer to the launch of AMD's AM5 platform, as ASRock just put up its first X670E motherboard on its website. The page still has very limited information and there's only a single picture of the motherboard, which is the same one that the company shared at Computex. However, we now get a few more details with regards to what to expect in terms of additional features. For starters, ASRock has gone for a 26-phase SPS Dr.MOS power design, which should be plenty even for the most avid overclocker. The board has a pair of PCIe 5.0 x16 slots that operate in dual x8 mode when both slots are used. In addition to this there are four M.2 slots, where ASRock has decided to call the CPU connected slot for Blazing, as it's PCIe 5.0, whereas the three PCIe 4.0 slots are using the Hyper name the company has used so far.

The board also has eight SATA ports, two Thunderbolt 4 ports, which apparently are USB4 certified as well and a header for a USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 (20 Gbps) case mounted port. Furthermore the board has five rear USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10 Gbps) USB-A ports around the back, plus three USB 3.2 Gen 1 (5 Gbps) ports and a further four via headers, as well as a single HDMI port of unknown version. ASRock has gone for an Intel Killer E3100G 2.5 Gbps Ethernet controller and an Intel Killer AX1675X WiFi 6E and Bluetooth card, with the combo having Killer DoubleShot Pro support. Finally audio is via a Realtek ALC4082 USB connected audio codec and an ESS Sabre 9218 DAC. Overall this looks like a pretty kitted out board without too much excessive bling and will hopefully be priced accordingly.



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[Dr_b_]

still waiting for when the mobo makers have the courage to completely remove all PCIe slots so that nothing can be connected, like an all M.2 mobo

 

[Indurain]

still waiting for when the mobo makers have the courage to completely remove all PCIe slots so that nothing can be connected, like an all M.2 mobo

So you want an APU compatible only MB?

Spoiler

I know you are being sarcastic

 

[eidairaman1]

All i can say is ugh, smh

 

[jeremyshaw]

So you want an APU compatible only MB?

Spoiler

I know you are being sarcastic

I wouldn't be too against it. Assuming the APU supported ECC, and we got a decent amount of M.2 NVMe out of it.

I'd probably prefer an X300 style layout, with 24 available lanes (16 + 4 + 4), and an OCP3.0 - style NIC slot.

A low profile, slim all flash NAS.

Of course, such a setup is extremely niche (QNAPs low end all flash NASes are present, though), and anyone who really, really wants an all flash NAS usually also scales to rackmount EPYCs and their 128 lanes of PCIe.

 

[thegnome]

26 phases for what? Not like any extreme overclocker will use 4 dimm mobos.

 

[eidairaman1]

26 phases for what? Not like any extreme overclocker will use 4 dimm mobos.

There are records for 4 dimms and 8 dimms

 

[mama]

Looks nice but I've never gone ASRock. Not sure about support. Maybe this time...

 

[trsttte]

Hyper m.2? Lightning gaming ports? TWENTY SIX fucking phases!?

Marketing bullshit is strong with this one

still waiting for when the mobo makers have the courage to completely remove all PCIe slots so that nothing can be connected, like an all M.2 mobo

You know that there are very cheap pcie to m.2 breakout boards right? m.2 is a bad format for MASSIVE storage, if you have money to blow you should be looking at u.2, if not stay with SATA. m.2 makes no sense either way.

 

[GerKNG]

remove half of the VRM and reduce the price by a hundred and it looks like a much more reasonable purchase.
26 powerstages... ?!

 

[looniam]

26 phases for what? Not like any extreme overclocker will use 4 dimm mobos.

Hyper m.2? Lightning gaming ports? TWENTY SIX fucking phases!?

remove half of the VRM and reduce the price by a hundred and it looks like a much more reasonable purchase.
26 powerstages... ?!

ICYMI its a X670E
and i thought the w0rd on the street is 7000s will have AVX-512,

so there you go.

 

[Nephilim666]

I suppose my TRX40 board with 16 phases, which happily supports up to 64 cores at 280W without the VRM's even really getting warm is under spec'd then.
Think of what they could do with the space taken up by these unnecessarily overbuilt VRM systems. Not to mention how much cheaper the board would be...

 

[Camm]

I suppose my TRX40 board with 16 phases, which happily supports up to 64 cores at 280W without the VRM's even really getting warm is under spec'd then.
Think of what they could do with the space taken up by these unnecessarily overbuilt VRM systems. Not to mention how much cheaper the board would be...

In before AsRock just using phase doublers.

 

[AlwaysHope]

Still got my Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD6 board that I got way back in 2010 & that had 24 phase vrm on it then! All that for the Lynnfield generation.
So 26 phase vrm ain't no big deal imo.

 

[TheLostSwede]

remove half of the VRM and reduce the price by a hundred and it looks like a much more reasonable purchase.
26 powerstages... ?!

This is their top tier SKU so far, so can't be worse than the competition, which is also adding more power phases.

Still got my Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD6 board that I got way back in 2010 & that had 24 phase vrm on it then! All that for the Lynnfield generation.
So 26 phase vrm ain't no big deal imo.

Different kind of power phases back then though. Those 24 are like 8 today.

 

[AnarchoPrimitiv]

I wouldn't be too against it. Assuming the APU supported ECC, and we got a decent amount of M.2 NVMe out of it.

I'd probably prefer an X300 style layout, with 24 available lanes (16 + 4 + 4), and an OCP3.0 - style NIC slot.

A low profile, slim all flash NAS.

Of course, such a setup is extremely niche (QNAPs low end all flash NASes are present, though), and anyone who really, really wants an all flash NAS usually also scales to rackmount EPYCs and their 128 lanes of PCIe.

That'd be cool, I've always been really interested in weird, niche, motherboards with uncommon connectors.

 

[Nater]

What are we thinking? $350

 

[Rannick1982]

What are we thinking? $350

Probably more like $700+. It's a new socket with all new standards, so they'll want to recoup their investments for design and research.

 

[shilka]

This is so far the only X670 board with 8 SATA ports i have seen

Asus is down to only 4 on many of their boards and MSI and Gigabyte is down to 6

Seems like the only way out of that problem is to buy a HBA card with more SATA ports since all the motherboard makers love to remove SATA ports which is very annoying if you have lots of hard drives

With GPU´s taking up as much as 4 slots there might not even be room for a HBA card so thats even more annoying
Why Asrock can have 8 SATA ports and nobody else can is something i cant understand i am almost forced to buy Asrock for that reason alone and my last Asrock boards have been a nightmare

 

[chrcoluk]

That picture is a painful sight, only 2 slots and its their top end board, sad days ahead.

I dont want another looping of the pcie slots discussion though so will keep this as my only comment on it in this thread.

As shilka said SATA ports are also been eroded away over time, the amount of boards with 8 seems to shrink every gen. M.2 killing off both of these types of i/o.

 

[eidairaman1]

That picture is a painful sight, only 2 slots and its their top end board, sad days ahead.

I dont want another looping of the pcie slots discussion though so will keep this as my only comment on it in this thread.

As shilka said SATA ports are also been eroded away over time, the amount of boards with 8 seems to shrink every gen. M.2 killing off both of these types of i/o.

Most are going that route. I may just get a Threadripper at that point.

The board doesnt look ATX but MATX...

And m.2 is ridiculous, give me a pcie ssd any day

 

[chrcoluk]

Most are going that route. I may just get a Threadripper at that point.

The board doesnt look ATX but MATX...

And m.2 is ridiculous, give me a pcie ssd any day

Do you think there will be a new threadripper release coming? Crazy to think I might consider that my future. As in the past I thought I would never have a use for those chips.

 

[eidairaman1]

Do you think there will be a new threadripper release coming? Crazy to think I might consider that my future. As in the past I thought I would never have a use for those chips.

They have the 5000 series for Skt WRX8, So i see DDR5 parts coming out.

Ryzen Threadripper - AMD - WikiChip

Ryzen Threadripper (pronounced Rye-Zen Thread-ripper) is a family of 64-bit x86 high-performance desktop and workstation microprocessors. Ryzen Threadripper is geared toward prosumers that rely on heavily threaded applications and multitasking.

en.wikichip.org

They may be pricey but Im the kind that just mainly replaces gpus and other pci cards over time.

 

[Nater]

Probably more like $700+. It's a new socket with all new standards, so they'll want to recoup their investments for design and research.

Derp. It is the 670E board as well. If it has the longevity say, of the X370 chipet w/ AM4, we can probably justify it.

 

[mechtech]

still waiting for when the mobo makers have the courage to completely remove all PCIe slots so that nothing can be connected, like an all M.2 mobo

Lol. Wouldn’t need much m.2 slots if there was more 4TB options and at an affordable price.