Product Showcase - overall presentation

Product Showcase - overall presentation

First - you need to remove the Taichi from the foam. You can see the gears above the rear IO area - they move.

The board is based on a 24+1+2 power phase design and cooled by big aluminium heat sinks (each with two small VRM fans). The PCB has eight layers and is in the EATX form factor (30.5 cm x 26.7 cm). The motherboard has one 2.5 Gb Ethernet jack and wireless LAN module (WiFi 6E) but without a card. The ASRock Z790 Taichi includes three full-length PCIe slots, with the top two slots operating at PCIe 5.0 x16 and x8/x8. The third slot is PCIe 4.0 x16 (working at x4). Four memory banks support up to 128 Gb of DDR5-7000. ASRock includes one PCIe 5.0 x4 M.2 slot, four  PCIe 4.0 x4 M.2 slots, and eight SATA ports for storage. Onboard power and reset button pairing are located in the bottom right-hand corner, while a two-digit LED debugger can be found on their side.

The motherboard supports:

• Supports 13th Gen & 12th Gen Intel® Core™ Processors (LGA1700)
• 2 x PCIe 5.0 x16 Slots (x16 or x8 mode) 1 x PCIe 4.0 x16 Slots (x4 mode)

For storage, you get:

CPU:

• 1 x Blazing M.2 Socket (M2_1, Key M), supports type 2280 PCIe Gen5x4 (128 Gb/s) mode
• 1 x Hyper M.2 Socket (M2_2, Key M), supports type 2280 PCIe Gen4x4 (64 Gb/s) mode

Chipset:

• 1 x Hyper M.2 Socket (M2_3, Key M), supports type 2260/2280 PCIe Gen4x4 (64 Gb/s) mode
• 1 x Hyper M.2 Socket (M2_4, Key M), supports type 2260/2280 PCIe Gen4x4 (64 Gb/s) mode
• 1 x Hyper M.2 Socket (M2_5, Key M), supports type 2260/2280 PCIe Gen4x4 (64 Gb/s) mode
• 8 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s Connectors

Internal connectors include:

• 1 x SPI TPM Header
• 1 x Power LED and Speaker Header
• 1 x RGB LED Header
• 3 x Addressable LED Headers
• 1 x CPU Fan Connector (4-pin)
• 1 x CPU/Water Pump Fan Connector (4-pin) (Smart Fan Speed Control)
• 6 x Chassis/Water Pump Fan Connectors (4-pin) (Smart Fan Speed Control)
• 1 x 24-pin ATX Power Connector (Hi-Density Power Connector)
• 2 x 8-pin 12V Power Connectors (Hi-Density Power Connector)
• 1 x 12V 6-pin Power Connector for Fast Charging (Hi-Density Power Connector)
• 1 x Front Panel Audio Connector (15μ Gold Audio Connector)
• 2 x USB 2.0 Headers (Support 4 USB 2.0 ports)
• 2 x USB 3.2 Gen1 Headers (Support 4 USB 3.2 Gen1 ports)
• 1 x Front Panel Type C USB 3.2 Gen2x2 Header (20 Gb/s)
• 1 x Clear CMOS Button
• 1 x Dr. Debug with LED
• 1 x Power Button with LED
• 1 x Reset Button with LED

On the rear IO, you’ll spot:

• 2 x Antenna Ports
• 1 x HDMI Port
• 1 x Optical SPDIF Out Port
• 2 x USB4 Thunderbolt™ 4 Type-C Ports (40 Gb/s for USB4 protocol; 40Gb/s for Thunderbolt™ protocol)
• 2 x USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-A Port (10 Gb/s)
• 6 x USB 3.2 Gen1 Ports (USB32_12 are Lightning Gaming Ports. USB32_34 support Ultra USB Power.)
• 2 x USB 2.0 Ports
• 2 x RJ-45 LAN Ports
• 1 x Line Out Jack (Gold Audio Jack)
• 1 x Microphone Input Jack (Gold Audio Jack)

There are six USB 3.2 Type-A, two USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-A, two USB 2.0, and two USB 4.0 (Thunderbolt 4) Type-C ports on the rear panel. You can also find an HDMI video output for users utilizing Intel’s integrated graphics. One Ethernet controller provides networking; it’s a 2.5 Gbe Killer E3100G. A WiFi is available; it’s an 802.11ax WiFi 6E Module and supports IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ax.

The onboard audio is based on the ALC4082 codec with ESS SABRE9218 DAC for Front Panel Audio (130dB SNR). The other features are:

• 5.1 CH HD Audio with Content Protection (Realtek ALC4082 Audio Codec)
• WIMA Audio Capacitors (For Front Outputs)
• ESS SABRE9218 DAC for Front Panel Audio (130dB SNR)
• Individual PCB Layers for R/L Audio Channel
• Impedance Sensing on Rear Out port
• Nahimic Audio

The four little red squares on the bottom left-hand corner of the board are the high-end audio WIMA Caps.

As for memory support:

• Dual Channel DDR5 Memory Technology
• 4 x DDR5 DIMM Slots
• Supports DDR5 non-ECC, un-buffered memory up to 7000+(OC)*
• Max. capacity of system memory: 128GB
• Supports Intel® Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) 3.0

You have four banks supporting up to 128 GB of system memory.

There is also a backplate.