ASRock has revealed 5 upcoming X670 and X670E motherboards on its primary website, together with the X670E Taichi Carrara, Taichi, Metal Legend, Professional RS, and the X670 PG Lightning. All 5 boards will function ASRock’s introduction into the AM5 platform and are designed to run AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 7000 sequence processors.
The most recent entry in ASRock’s lineup is the X670E Taichi Carrara. This board seems to be nothing greater than an outfit change over the vanilla X670E Taichi, with normal specs being an identical between the 2 motherboards. The Carrara sub-variant includes a reasonably extravagant wanting white marble prime unfold out over the complete backside and rear I/O part of the motherboard. This design is accompanied by a matte black end within the prime and top-right sections of the motherboard, paired with a line of RGB LEDs to the underside proper.
This design is a large departure from the Taichi aesthetic we’re used to seeing. When you did not see the board’s title in any respect, you’d assume it is a wholly completely different motherboard mannequin from ASRock.
The usual X670E Taichi sticks to its roots and takes design queues from all of ASRock’s earlier Taichi fashions. Nevertheless, not like earlier designs, the X670E Taichi is probably the most mature-looking design with the least quantity of glitz and graphics ever on a Taichi board. The board is doused in a pure black end from prime to backside, that includes each matte black and shiny black finishes. To maintain the board true to its predecessors, it options gold and silver accents throughout the board’s edges and options gear-like icons on the chipset cooler and rear I/O panel.
Each the Taichi and Taichi Carrara boards function an identical core specs, together with an X670E chipset, twin PCIe x16 5.0 slots (one with 8 lanes), and a beefy 26 Part SPS energy supply system being the first key factors.
I/O connectivity features a plethora of ports, with two USB Sort-C ports that function both Thunderbolt 4 or USB4 connectors, a single entrance USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 Sort-C port, 5 rear USB 3.2 Gen 2 Sort-A ports, and 7 USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports with 4 of these designed for entrance I/O.
Audio comes within the type of a Realtek ALC4082 audio codec, assisted by an ESS Sabre 9218 DAC. Web connectivity comes within the type of a killer E3100G 2.5Gbps ethernet port and a Killer AX1675X Wi-Fi 6E wi-fi module.
Storage options are intensive, together with a single M.2 Gen5 slot, twin M.2 PCIe Gen4 slots, and a single M.2 slot that may run both PCIe Gen 4 or SATA 6Gbps primarily based SSDs, for a complete of 4 M.2 slots. On prime of this, each boards additionally function eight SATA connectors for normal SATA-based laborious drives and SSDs.
For now, it seems the Taichi and Taichi Carrara will each function ASRock’s flagship motherboards on the AM5 platform with the one variations being aesthetics, although it is doable ASRock will place the Carrara at a good greater value level.
X670E Metal Legend
The following motherboard on the checklist is the X670E Metal Legend. Not a lot is thought about this board, however it ought to be one in every of ASRock’s least expensive gaming motherboards packing the X670E chipset if it serves the identical function because the earlier technology X570 Metal Legend.
Sadly, ASRock has solely listed a number of normal specs and no itemizing picture to talk of, so we don’t know what this board appears like. In response to the product web page, it will likely be a considerable downgrade in comparison with its Taichi counterparts.
Specs for the Metal Legend embody a single PCIe 5.0 x16 slot, with Realtek ALC 1220 audio codec paired to Nahimic Audio software program. M.2 storage comes within the type of a single PCIe Gen5 slot, and all that is identified concerning the USB ports is that there will probably be USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 Sort-C connectivity. Lastly, community connectivity consists of a Dragon 2.5Gbps LAN port and an unknown Wi-Fi 6E module.
We should always know extra particulars as soon as ASRock will get round to ending the product pages of all its AM5 motherboards.
X670E Professional RS
The ultimate X670E chipset motherboard in ASRock’s lineup is the X670E Professional RS, which is ASRock’s first AM5 motherboard aimed toward skilled customers. Fortunately we have now a product picture to reference, nevertheless specs once more are very obscure.
Essentially the most attention-grabbing function concerning the X670E Professional RS is its PCIe slot setup. The board forgoes the addition of a secondary x16 slot fully, giving customers solely a single major x16 5.0 slot to play with. The one different PCIe slots on the board are a pair of x1 slots for small add-in playing cards. We imagine ASRock made this transformation to avoid wasting price, since PCIe 5.0 could be very costly to implement on a motherboard with its extraordinarily excessive bandwidth necessities.
On the flip facet, ASRock is ready to use the extra room to provide customers two extra M.2 slots coated by a really lengthy M.2 heatsink. That offers the board a complete of 5 M.2 slots, plus a sixth in case you rely the M.2 WiFi slot.
Aesthetically the board options the identical coloration scheme as ASRock’s older Professional SKUs with a black and gray end. General, it suits the design language of knowledgeable mainboard of being stealthy and becoming into the setting with its color-neutral tone.
Common specs are largely the identical because the Metal Legend with a Dragon 2.5Gbps LAN port, and USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 Sort-C connectivity. The one note-worthy change is the usage of the reasonably outdated ALC897 Realtek Audio codec.
X670 PG Lightning
Final however not least is ASRock’s solely at the moment introduced X670 motherboard known as the X670 PG Lighting. Sadly, ASRock has once more uncared for to incorporate a product picture just like the Metal Legend, so we do not know what the board will seem like. The present spec sheet is even vaguer than the earlier product pages of the opposite AM5 motherboards.
All we all know is the board will function HDMI and DisplayPort outputs, an ALC 897 audio codec, USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 Sort-C connectivity, and a Dragon 2.5Gbps community port. That is it.
Nevertheless, we will make some assumptions primarily based on earlier PG (Phantom Gaming) fashions about the place this board will lie in ASRock’s lineup. PG has historically been ASRock’s midrange gaming motherboard lineup, with barely higher options and energy supply techniques than the Metal Legend sequence, and barely fewer options than the Taichi motherboards. We anticipate the X670 PG Lighting to fill in that very same function on the AM5 platform.
ASRock has at all times had the next tier PG motherboard as effectively, with both a flagship AMD or Intel chipset, so we should always anticipate ASRock to give you an X670E variant of the Lighting someday sooner or later.
