Taichi IS NOW BACK ON STOCK

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GONE ATM

This should be in the motherboard section, or the Ryzen thread.
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I wonder if its from AMD side or Asrock side, they are having issues, would be silly to have the CPUs but not the chipsets to go along with it?
Maybe Asrock didn't expect such high end demand?
 
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Was able to snag one of these at my local Microcenter. Comparing it to the Asus Prime X370 Pro (which granted is $30-$40 cheaper). The BIOS on the Taichi seems far more mature (although still work to do), and overclocks are better. I'm waiting on my AM4 bracket for my AIO cooler, but I hit 3.8 at stock voltage, and haven't tried higher yet as I don't want to push it on the wraith spire cooler (which is pretty good BTW).

My memory is Corsair CMK16GX4M2B3200C1 (8gb x2 3200 dual rank) which might be about the worst memory for an AM4 system right now (it's a holdover from my last system). It wouldn't boot at anything above 2133 on the Asus (BIOS v0511), I tried for several hours, and nothing. On the Taichi I upgraded the BIOS to 1.60 and was able to get the memory stable at 2666 with virtually no effort. I'm going to give the beta BIOS (1.94a) a shot this evening and see if I can get the memory up to 2933, or even 3200. I was thinking i was going to have to upgrade to some single rank memory to get good memory speeds, but the Taichi has given me hope that I may be able to save that $150-$200, and with a few more weeks of BIOS work, get mine running at the rated speeds.

I've only had a few hours of playing around with it so far, but for me, it looks like this is the AM4 board to have right now.
 
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1.94a improves the Taichi drastically from a daily use perspective. Most of the nagging irritations with the board are gone.
 
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Hendrickson said:
Was able to snag one of these at my local Microcenter. Comparing it to the Asus Prime X370 Pro (which granted is $30-$40 cheaper). The BIOS on the Taichi seems far more mature (although still work to do), and overclocks are better. I'm waiting on my AM4 bracket for my AIO cooler, but I hit 3.8 at stock voltage, and haven't tried higher yet as I don't want to push it on the wraith spire cooler (which is pretty good BTW).

My memory is Corsair CMK16GX4M2B3200C1 (8gb x2 3200 dual rank) which might be about the worst memory for an AM4 system right now (it's a holdover from my last system). It wouldn't boot at anything above 2133 on the Asus (BIOS v0511), I tried for several hours, and nothing. On the Taichi I upgraded the BIOS to 1.60 and was able to get the memory stable at 2666 with virtually no effort. I'm going to give the beta BIOS (1.94a) a shot this evening and see if I can get the memory up to 2933, or even 3200. I was thinking i was going to have to upgrade to some single rank memory to get good memory speeds, but the Taichi has given me hope that I may be able to save that $150-$200, and with a few more weeks of BIOS work, get mine running at the rated speeds.

I've only had a few hours of playing around with it so far, but for me, it looks like this is the AM4 board to have right now.
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Ha! We're having another wintry storm in Boston so I decided to visit the MC a couple of blocks from me. I was just going to ask when the AsRock Fatality Gaming Pro mb was going to be in until I saw this. Didn't know MC was going to carry it as I haven't been viewing their website lately.

It was the last one and I was excited to see that it rang up for $199 and going to the MC website they it also has the $15 rebate. Now, to decide to keep it or wait for the Fatality Gaming Pro.

Have the R 1700 that I got on ebay for $250 and the G.Skill Flare X 3200mhz CL14 coming on Monday.

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Capt Caveman said:
Ha! We're having another wintry storm in Boston so I decided to visit the MC a couple of blocks from me. I was just going to ask when the AsRock Fatality Gaming Pro mb was going to be in until I saw this. Didn't know MC was going to carry it as I haven't been viewing their website lately.

It was the last one and I was excited to see that it rang up for $199 and going to the MC website they it also has the $15 rebate. Now, to decide to keep it or wait for the Fatality Gaming Pro.

Have the R 1700 that I got on ebay for $150 and the G.Skill Flare X 3200mhz CL14 coming on Monday.
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I am generally a Feature guy and more than willing to throw money at features I won't use. But the best I can tell the only real difference in the Pro and the Taichi is the Pro having two NIC's and one of them being a 5Gb connection. For me that one NIC isn't worth the increase in cost. Otherwise the not just the feature list, but the whole board itself seems to be exactly the same even getting the same BIOS versions (and without being 100% sure probably the same BIOS). So it's not like the Pro is built better than the Taichi and therefore a safer bet, where as the Killer SLI (w/o ac) or Killer K4 do seem to be a different board with much more variance on features and included hardware (like no BCLK chip, worse audio, no asmedia Sata chip).
 
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Topweasel said:
I am generally a Feature guy and more than willing to throw money at features I won't use. But the best I can tell the only real difference in the Pro and the Taichi is the Pro having two NIC's and one of them being a 5Gb connection. For me that one NIC isn't worth the increase in cost. Otherwise the not just the feature list, but the whole board itself seems to be exactly the same even getting the same BIOS versions (and without being 100% sure probably the same BIOS). So it's not like the Pro is built better than the Taichi and therefore a safer bet, where as the Killer SLI (w/o ac) or Killer K4 do seem to be a different board with much more variance on features and included hardware (like no BCLK chip, worse audio, no asmedia Sata chip).
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Yeah, not huge differences but I was also looking into the sound software being provided and thinking that the Sound Blaster software was going to be better than the Purity Sound, saving me from having to get a Sound Blaster card.
 
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DrMrLordX said:
The board finally has user profiles. And now it can actually boot with UEFI overclock, which is nice.

Granted, sometimes it loops through the early boot process 5-6 times before actually starting, but it will boot.
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What do you mean? My board just booted with the CPU OC'd to4 GHz on version 1.60. I noticed if I mess with memory, then it really slows down the boot times though. I can put it to 3200 from 2133, and it will work, but it takes a lot longer to boot. I haven't tried 4GHz + 3200 yet though.
 
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DrMrLordX said:
1.94a improves the Taichi drastically from a daily use perspective. Most of the nagging irritations with the board are gone.
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Have you noticed HWmonitor giving strange Vcore voltages after the update to the new bios?

It's telling me 2.7V right now.

Asrock A tuning is telling me 1.344

I set it to 1.35v in bios.

Also, why are there 2 places to set the VCore voltages in 1.94a?!
 
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ASROCK motherboard is #1 choice.

If you buy through Newegg, you get 3 years warranty.
 
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Is the power phase design the main reason to choose a Taichi over a Fatal1ty K4?
 
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ASRock provide 1 year warranty service to Authorized Distributor, users should refer to the retailer or original vender RMA & Refund policy.
 
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