ASRock’s Taichi sequence of motherboards have traditionally been incredible items of {hardware}. Your creator’s primary private PC relies on an ASRock X570 Taichi motherboard, and it has been rock-solid and feature-filled by way of two completely different CPU upgrades since its launch in mid-2019.
Apparently, ASRock has taken customers’ complaints to coronary heart, as a result of it is simply launched two “Taichi Lite Series” motherboards, often called the Z790 Taichi Lite and B650E Taichi Lite. One for LGA 1700 Intel CPUs, and one for AMD’s Socket AM5, and each aimed squarely on the higher mid-range of the motherboard market, but with high-end function units.
Despite the said emphasis on “performance, efficiency, and sturdiness,” these boards are nonetheless fairly fancy-looking, with small RGB LED accents and vital stylization on the rear I/O cowl and M.2 heatsinks. Still, they are a far cry (by way of aesthetics) from the unique non-“Lite” variations of the motherboards, and they need to come cheaper because of this.
We say “ought to” as a result of we do not truly understand how these new boards will likely be priced but, though ASRock says that they’re “right here.” We could not discover them obtainable on the market at any retailers worldwide, however the Z790 Taichi and X670E Taichi are each available—for $399 and $499 respectively. Hopefully these new boards will likely be nearer to the $200 mark.
