Review ASRock X870E Taichi Review: Better than X670E, at a lower price

[Admin]

The ASRock X870E Taichi is a well-rounded, feature-laden, good-looking board that also performs well in our testing. Its $449.99 price is also less than competing boards, but the E-ATX form factor limits case compatibility.

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[Jame5]

The CPU fan has the least at 1A/12W, but the rest are 3A/36W.

Seriously question: What kind of fans require 36w of power to drive in a desktop configuration?

 

[Notton]

Seriously question: What kind of fans require 36w of power to drive in a desktop configuration?

It's for when you want to plug in 6 fans into the same header for a 360mm radiator in push-pull.
or they figured the user is too dumb and will plug in their AIO pump into the header.
or it was cheaper/simpler to use the same circuit design for both fans and pumps, but then IDK why the CPU fan header only supports 12W.

 

[Jame5]

It's for when you want to plug in 6 fans into the same header for a 360mm radiator in push-pull.
or they figured the user is too dumb and will plug in their AIO pump into the header.
or it was cheaper/simpler to use the same circuit design for both fans and pumps, but then IDK why the CPU fan header only supports 12W.

Fair enough. I guess I'm officially old now.

I always thought it was bad to try and drive multiple fans from a single fan header. I guess times have changed and they've figured that out. This would also explain how a motherboard could manage and drive one of those fan breakout boards in the new cases I've been looking at. Like this shot from the Be Quiet review last week:
Although looking at it, it has a separate power and mb_sync connection on it. So I really don't understand anything.

 

[HideOut]

Today we are happy that a motherboard is only $450. It doesnt come with 10GbE and its $450. But hey, if you click on links THG gets a cut.

 

[castl3bravo]

X870E (versus X670) consumes another PCIE x4 lane for a 40Gig USB4 interface. What can you get that will consume that bandwidth?

 

[AkroZ]

X870E (versus X670) consumes another PCIE x4 lane for a 40Gig USB4 interface. What can you get that will consume that bandwidth?

A USB hub with 2 x 4K 60 Hz monitors, network, mouse and keyboard.
For more go Thunderbolt 5 with 80Gig.

 

[ddcservices]

A USB hub with 2 x 4K 60 Hz monitors, network, mouse and keyboard.
For more go Thunderbolt 5 with 80Gig.

This isn't a tiny ITX motherboard, so why bother with a dock, unless you are in an unusual situation where you move your desktop machine from location to location on a very regular basis? The majority will plug their stuff directly into the motherboard. If anything, I'd love to see more video cards with USB-C output to handle dual-monitor setups.

Laptops are where most people who need better connectivity will go with a dock, but also because laptops are designed to be portable.