Review: ASRock Z390 Taichi Ultimate

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 12/11/2018 11:44 AM | source: | 21 comment(s)

In this review, we peek at one of the more luxurious Z390 motherboards from ASRock, meet the Z390 Taichi Ultimate. ready for 8th or 9th Gen processors this board is about performance, aesthetics and lots of features.

Read the review right here.

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lucasfrance
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#5616224 Posted on: 12/11/2018 05:27 PM

Great review as always. After hesitation between this one and the Gigabyte Aorus Z390 Xtrem I finally decided for last one (currently on order, not yet received).

These two boards offer quite similar specs and a Ethernet 10Gb link that is a must for me as I'll soon get a 10Gb fiber connection to the internet :-)

I know the price of the Aorus is much higher than the ASRock Ultimate (almost double...) but I frankly did not find the ASRock look that nice personally.

Below the details of my in assembly built (any comments welcome).

CPU Intel® Core™ i9-9900K (3.6-5.0+ GHz) 14nm
MB Gigabyte Z390 AORUS XTREM
GPU1 EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FTW3
GPU2 EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW
DDR4 Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 32GB Kit (4 x 8GB) 3200MHz
Cooling Corsair H150i Pro
M.2 NVMe Samsung 970 PRO 1TB M.2 2280 NVMe
M.2 NVMe Samsung 970 EVO 2TB M.2 2280 NVMe
PC Case Phanteks Enthoo Evolv X (Midi Tower) BLK
PSU Corsair HX1200i
Monitor ASUS PA328 4K

tunejunky
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#5616239 Posted on: 12/11/2018 06:03 PM

another great review, and another winner form Asrock. i've used the Taichi series for three builds (X399 1st & 2nd gen, Z370) and have gotten extremely good value and use out of them. i'm not in love with the screened graphics of gears, but i love the performance/dollar and relative lack of rgb.
if i ever had a reason to get a 9th gen Intel, this would be the board of choice for me.

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#5616743 Posted on: 12/12/2018 11:22 PM

lucasfrance
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#5616752 Posted on: 12/12/2018 11:51 PM

Thanks Pictus. This at least gives me an "objective justification" for my expensive MB choice

lucasfrance
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#5616762 Posted on: 12/13/2018 12:26 AM

Based on the temps figures above (if correct) I feel really bad for the two last MB VMR chips....

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