ASRock Shows X399 Taichi and Fatal1ty Professional Gaming

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 07/27/2017 07:53 AM | source: | 16 comment(s)

You guys have seen X399 (Ryzen Threadripper) motherboards from names like ASUS, Gigabyte and MSI. ASRock was still missing in that list. However details and some photos surfaced on the web showing the new X399 Fatal1ty Professional Gaming and X399 Taichi.

The boards will be impressive as ASRock always takes it to the next level, especially networking is a thing. You guys know that i have been preaching higher Ethernet speeds for like a year now, well the X399 Fatal1ty Professional Gaming is to be fitted wit dual-band AC WIFI and it has three Ethernet jacks! Not just that, one of them will get a 10 Gigabit jack based on an embedded Aquantia NIC. Obviously the board will get the usual LED bling and functionality.

You will spot 8 DIMM slots for quad-channel DDR4 memory, which btw is listed to support up-to 3600 MHz DIMMs. The board has four PCI-Express x16 slots (each secondary a x8 lane one) and one PCI 2.0 x1 slot as well as three M2 connectors.

The X399 Taichi is pretty much offering the same features aside from that 10 Gbit Ethernet jack. Obviously it has different aesthetic tweaks. Have a peek at the slides (courtesy of Videocardz).

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Stairmand
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#5456162 Posted on: 07/27/2017 03:01 PM

Indeed Hilbert has been complaining for ages about a lack of 10Gbe but I've no idea why. Not a single person I know has any need for it, nor do any of them have 10Gbe switches or other infrastructure.

The people that want it could always chuck in a PCIe card, for the rest of us it just pushes the price of boards up for no good reason.

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#5456187 Posted on: 07/27/2017 03:48 PM

Maybe, but that would be so with x299 as well.

Yeah, but I am done with Intels pricing and their meager offerings at that.

Intel needs another "whole" refresh for this guy to jump back on that wagon...

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#5456325 Posted on: 07/27/2017 09:26 PM

True words spoketh

Not to date myself too much ....but I have been an enthusiast since the commodore 64 was connected to my 12" inch t.v. screen and had to type in numbers to simulate flight attacks on a carrier group. Am I the only one that feels like the cpu's and motherboards at their current technology levels, are not only slow in coming but should/could have been years earlier? My point being, I feel like I have been milked for all I'm worth and am finally being rewarded for hanging in there. Servers have enjoyed premium technology, albeit at a premium price, and the public kept teased by a "new" carrot on a string every so often. I love what I see here now and will make sure I future proof myself from more carrots as long as possible.

I used to practically support the enthusiast computer community with every generation until performance from cpu's and motherboards just died. Suddenly, thanks to Intel, we were stuck at quadcore ad naseum. Hell cell phones were become more exciting than an actual computer. I will be glad to say a fond farewell to my old X58SLI mobo with TRIPLE channel memory and overclocked i7-920 that has been going strong for soooooo, many years. It was once a marvel of modern technology but time to give Intel the boot for having dragged their behinds for so long.

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#5456345 Posted on: 07/27/2017 10:30 PM

Single 8 pin CPU power connector VS 2 in ASUS and MSI.

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#5456575 Posted on: 07/28/2017 02:39 PM

Single 8 pin CPU power connector VS 2 in ASUS and MSI.

jL4n6ix2E9s

Not sure what you are saying. These boards have an 8 pin and a 4 pin. You talking about two 8 pins compared to a 8 and 4?

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