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Any X470 motherboard can be positioned in the high-end class high-end spectrum of AMD motherboards. The Taichi is not in the cheaper category but does come with some nice extra features like AC WIFI, M.2 Heatsink as well as eight SATA3 ports and a proper 16 phase power design.

 
The motherboard includes all of the standardized X470 chipset options with two M.2 SSD slots (the primary one is full speed x4 PCIe Gen3), it is SLI and Crossfire compatible as well, one x16 slot (configured as Gen 3 x16 on the first slot, the second is Gen 3 x8). The board follows standard ATX Form Factor. Should you use both for graphics cards they lane configuration will split up towards x8/x8. The third (all black one) actually runs at x4 Gen2 and is linked from the Chipset.

The I/O panel of the X470 Ultra Gaming reveals eight USB 3.1 ports, one is a type-c connector. Audio is based on the Realtek ALC1220 audio codec solution optimized with a Purity Sound suite and some quality high-grade capacitors. There is PS/2 combo port for keyboard or mouse. The board gets one 10/100/1000 Gigabit LAN controller (Intel) and thus dual-band 802.11ac Wifi.

 
The X470 Ultra Gaming comes with an 8-pin and then an extra 4-pin power connector. There's limited RGB LED enablement (chipset heatsink, top side rear IO, and audio circuitry) which you can configure with ASRocks software or straight from the BIOS. Of course, you can add LED strips etc through several connectors present on the motherboard. RGB bling wise it's all subtle enough, see some example photos below.