ASRock Z790 Taichi (Intel 1700)

Erstklassiges Intel Mainboard mit fantastischer Grundausstattung! Vor wenigen Tagen hatten wir bereits ein Unboxing Video dazu veröffentlicht und heute sehen wir uns das ASRock Z790 Taichi Mainboard auf OCinside.de im Detail an. Das ASRock Z790 Taichi ist wie die Carrara Ausführung ein absolutes High-End LGA1700 Mainboard für Intel Alder Lake und Intel Raptor Lake Prozessoren!

The ASRock Z790 Taichi is the highest model from ASRock’s Z790 family. The looks are excellent and should fit most of the builds. It has an integrated I/O shield, great RGB implementation (with three aRGB connectors and one RGB compliant), PCIe 5.0 compatibility, and PCIe 5.0 NVMe drive support (you can install one of them, plus four PCIe 4.0 drives, still with some limitations), and 8 SATA ports. The power/reset/clear CMOS buttons can also come in handy when overclocking. You get a 2.5 Gbe Ethernet and WiFi compatibility. ASRock Z790 Taichi has an excellent power delivery with 24+1+2 phase VRM with 105A MOSFETs, giving 2520A. That should be enough even for the 13900K and, most possibly, the upcoming new processors (Raptor-Lake refresh) for socket 1700. The power delivery section is cooled with massive radiators and one 30 mm fan, but the VRMs would be remarkable without its aid. You will get two Thunderbolt 4.0 ports – that’s a great addition. The audio performance is excellent because you get the ALC4082 (with assistance from an ESS SABRE9218 DAC for Front Panel Audio). There are eight fan headers – so you shouldn’t be disappointed in that department (and the location of the CPU fans headers is not odd like the last time). The price is relatively high (but that’s usually a norm for the DDR5-based Z790 motherboards). 479 USD is the high-end market, but the competition is usually more expensive. It’s 699 USD for the MSI MEG Z790 ACE or 630 USD for the Asus Maximus Z790 Hero.

First-class Intel motherboard from ASRock with fantastic basic equipment! A few days ago we already published an unboxing video about it and today we take a detailed look at the ASRock Z790 Taichi motherboard on OCinside.de! The ASRock Z790 Taichi is like the Carrara version an absolute high-end LGA1700 motherboard for Intel Alder Lake and Intel Raptor Lake processors.

Being that this is our first Intel Z790 motherboard it was exciting to see what the platform offers and some of the new features you are going to get over the previous generation. Intel’s Z690 platform offered a lot, but the biggest change here is going to be PCI-Express 5.0 support on both your expansion slots as well as your M.2 storage. This really is going to future proof you when Gen5 NVMe storage becomes available, and affordable.

When Intel launched the Z690 chipset supporting 12th Gen processors I had mixed feelings. Yes, it was the first platform to support DDR5 ram, and yes it did offer better performance over older generation of processors. But I just didn’t like the fact that if you had a 10th Gen or a 11th Gen processor and you want to upgrade to the 12th gen, you had to buy a complete new setup again, which means new motherboard, new cooler (due to the new LGA1700 socket) etc. I suppose if you go with Intel, you can’t get away from their Tick-Tock model.