Motherboard ASRock X870E Taichi DDR5 AM5

ASRock X870E Taichi Motherboard

The ASRock X870E Taichi is an E-ATX motherboard from the Taichi series for AMD Ryzen 9000, 8000 and 7000 processors on Socket AM5. It is built on the AMD X870E chipset with an 8-layer 2oz copper PCB and a 24+2+1 phase power design with 110A SPS, ready for top-end CPUs and overclocking.

The board offers two PCIe 5.0 x16 slots, four M.2 slots (one of them PCIe 5.0), two 40Gb/s USB4 ports, 5 Gigabit LAN and Wi-Fi 7 with Bluetooth 5.4. The audio section adds an ESS SABRE9219 DAC for the rear outputs and a Direct Drive headphone amplifier on the front panel.

Key features

• Robust power delivery - A 24+2+1 phase design with 110A SPS Dr.MOS, two 8-pin CPU power connectors and an 8-layer 2oz copper PCB keep the system stable under sustained load.
• Fast DDR5 memory - Four dual-channel DDR5 slots support up to 256GB and up to 8200+ MHz (OC), with XMP and EXPO profiles.
• PCIe 5.0 for graphics and storage - Two PCIe 5.0 x16 slots run in x16 or x8/x8 mode, and the Blazing M.2 slot takes a PCIe Gen5x4 SSD at 128Gb/s. Three more Hyper M.2 slots run at PCIe Gen4x4, plus six SATA3 ports.
• USB4 and fast connectivity - Two 40Gb/s USB4 Type-C ports with display output and USB PD charging up to 15W, a 20Gb/s USB 3.2 Gen2x2 Type-C front header and 21 USB ports in total.
• 5GbE and Wi-Fi 7 - A Realtek RTL8126 5Gb/s controller and a 2x2 Wi-Fi 7 module with 160MHz channels and Bluetooth 5.4.
• High quality audio - Realtek ALC4082 codec, an ESS SABRE9219 DAC with 130dB SNR for the rear outputs, WIMA capacitors and a Direct Drive headphone amp for headsets up to 600 ohm.

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