Review: ASRock Z390 Taichi Ultimate
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lucasfrance
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
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.
Pictus
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Congratulations!
The Gigabytes Z390 got away better VRM.
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lucasfrance
Thanks Pictus. This at least gives me an "objective justification" for my expensive MB choice 🙂
lucasfrance
Based on the temps figures above (if correct) I feel really bad for the two last MB VMR chips....
SniperX
lucasfrance
SniperX
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lucasfrance
SniperX
lucasfrance
Hi SniperX,
After a complete night of work my new system is now up I running perfectly well ! 🙂 I spent few hours to sort out a problem at first boot after assembly (Bios Error Code "7F" : was afraid something went wrong with the MB or CPU during assembly) that was due it seems to the fact I connected to many fans on the same powerline ? To be checked later one... I'm currently porting my previous SW configuration (Partitions copies on the NVMe) and performing some network tuning. Afterwards I'll proceed with the OC/perf/temps tests. I'll let you know.
Congrats for the °C reduction on your side. Good job ! 🙂
SniperX
lucasfrance
After a good sleeping night (didn't sleep for about 48 hours) I'm working on finding a way to have the keyboard/mouse support for my Win 7 partition on the Z390... Seems no easy solution available, except installing a PCI USB card just for this, as the Z390 USB drivers are not Win 7 compatible as of yet...
Benchmark & Temps measurements are just next on the To Do List …
lucasfrance
Hi there,
Here are my first CPU OC / Temps results (see PC detailed HW config in a previous post above)
Room temp : 20.5°C
H150i (3 fans on the top of the case)
Case closed / 1 fan in the rear, 2 fans in the front (Phanteks Evol X standard config)
DDR4 at 3200 (default / No OC)
CPU on rest : Temp 38-42°C
Stress Test (CPU-Z stress):
H150i : Extreme
- 4.7GHz : 61-65°C
- 5.2GHz : 80-84°C
H150i : Balance
- 4.7GHz : 62-67°C
- 5.2GHz : 82-85°C
H150i : Quiet
- 4.7GHz : 70-74°C
- 5.2GHz : 90-95°C
Power (CPUID Monitor : Package power)
- 4.7GHZ : about 122W
- 5.2GHZ : about 176W
I also tried Prime95:
Test 1 (first in menu choice) :
H150i : Extreme
- 4.7GHz : 77-82°C
- 5.2GHz : PC crash twice (?)
H150i : Extreme
Test 2 (second in menu)
- 5.2GHz : 73-79°C
H150i : Extreme
Test 3 (third in menu)
- 5.2GHz : 69-74°C
That's it for now 🙂
lucasfrance
Update : With the Corsair H150i in Extreme mode I get 25-35°C when CPU on rest (with the 5.2GHZ config).
SniperX
lucasfrance
Yes, I'll have to investigate the crash on the heavy AVX test at 5.2GHz. I'm quite happy with the new rig perfs and CPU temps are really great thanks to the Corsair H150i.
I do feel you would significantly improve your temps by installing one on your side so you can safely reach the 5.2GHz on all cores too 🙂
Kind Regards,
hell_knight
Those taichi remind me of my old and still working x58sabertooth, indestructible!
geekpryde
In the review it states "Two 8-pin connectors" to supply the CPU with power, but based on the photos and the specs, I believe you meant "One 8-pin and one 4-pin connector". Can you confirm?