THE X670E TAICHI

Just like its box the X670E Taichi features a black and gold color combination.

The VRM is cooled by a large heatsink that features a single fan inside.

For all of you still wondering AM5 is almost identical to AM4 so AM4 coolers also fit here.

ASRock has placed 4 reinforced DIMM slots on the X670E Taichi (next to them we see one of the M.2 Gen 4x4 slots covered by its heatsink).

On the lower right we find the SATA III ports and the ARGB LEDs right next and beneath them.

Further down we see a single debug LED and the on/off and reset buttons.

Aside another ARGB LED (which you really can't even see when you install a graphics card) the southbridge heatsink also features a nice wheel design that stands out (the Taichi Carrara model does not).

Just two PCIe slots is hardly enough and so i hope this doesn't become a trend for high-end motherboards (I’d rather get 2-3 M.2 ports and 3-4 PCIe slots).

Here you can see all four M.2 slots with their heatsinks removed.

As mentioned earlier the Gen 5x4 M.2 port comes with its own active heatsink.

For this review i used the Neo Forza NFP425 2TB Gen4x4 SSD and decided to test the heatsink on it (not nearly as hot as Gen5 models but why not?).

Taking a look at the rear I/O we see the clear CMOS (BIOS) and BIOS flashback (BIOS recovery) buttons, two WiFi antenna ports, HDMI v2.1 port (up to 4k 120Hz), KILLER 2.5G LAN port, 5 USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports, 3 USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports, 2 USB 4 type-C ports and the optical out and analog audio ports (do keep in mind that the front - internal - USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 Type-C port is faster than the rear USB 4 Type-C ports).

Turning the motherboard over we see that roughly 70% of its PCB is covered by a nice backplate.

Following my X570 tests with the Ryzen 9 5900X i decided to use the Ryzen 9 7900X to test X670 models (made more sense than the 7950X).

The ARGB LED located on the lower right side of the X670E Taichi doesn't really stand out much as you can see from the above pictures (as mentioned earlier if you install a 2-3 slot card the top ARGB LED can't be seen).