Pros: 16 phase VRM Easy to overclock Able to run memory at PC 3200 using XMP settings correctly 802.11ac and BT 4.2 wireless functionality USB 3.1 Type A and C Premium chokes and Mosfets Nichicon Black Caps BCLK overclocking Subtle RGB effects Cool Black and White PCB Metal reinforced PCI-e slots Excellent AC 1220 onboard sound and headphone amp Dual M2 ports Dual CPU Fan headers and water pump header Full software suite and App Center 3 RGB strip headers CMOS reset button on rear IO

Cons: No video output No automatic overclocking options in UEFI

Overall Review: This is the third Ryzen system that I have put together in the last 2 months. The first one built on an MSI X370 motherboard and Ryzen 1700 cpu, the second built on an Asus B350 motherboard with a Ryzen 1600 and my personal pc which is built on this Asrock X370 taichi with the Ryzen 1600X. I thought long and hard about what I wanted with my own personal motherboard, the other two builds were for family. First of all I wanted a neater build, so the ability to finally get rid of my dedicated sound card was important and this motherboard has one of the best implemented ALC 1220 sound solutions on the market. Sound is subjective though, this is only my opinion. I listen to a lot of music when working and all through Senheisser Momentum headphones. The sound on the other two systems was clearly inferior to my Creative soundcard, even though the MSI was built around the same ALC 1220 chipset. The Taichi motherboard has allowed me to retire my Creative soundcard finally, it is that good. This motherboard also comes with a full suite of wireless options, Bluetooth and 802.11ac and Intel Gigabit LAN, it has good storage options with 10 SATA ports and 2 M2 slots (although only one is full speed). The 1600X at stock boosts to 4.1ghz on a single core, 3.7ghz on 2 cores and 3.6 on all cores, so I am not planning on overclocking it. So why buy a motherboard that is clearly built for overclocking with a 16 phase VRM and premium chokes and mosfets? It provides a smoother power delivery and will run cooler as the load is spread over larger number of mosfets. I did manage quite easily to overclock my 1600X on all 6 cores by increasing the vcore to 1.3875v, set the load line calibration to its lowest setting and raise the SOC to 1.2v. Prime stable on all cores and a load temp of 62C (240 AIO cooler). My Corsair (Hynix) memory was automatically set at correct timings and speed when I used the XMP profile in the UEFI at Cas 16 PC 3200mhz. Something that I was not able to do with either of the other two motherboards, however this is more likely a result of the current state of platform maturity and latest AGESA 1.0.0.6 code implementation. The UEFI takes a little getting used to but I like the ability to download the latest drivers and bios images while in the UEFI and the bios has all the settings I need to set up and overclock my new build including a good manual fan profile for all headers that reminds me of the super fan expert that Asus uses. This is easily the best motherboard I have played with in the last year or two. It look great in black and white and the RGB effects are not completely over the top like some of the other motherboards I have recently played with. It has amazing sound a full suite of wireless and wired options and good storage options. I really can’t think of anything bad to say about this motherboard, so I won’t. 5 eggs.

Pros: x370 chipset Very good build quality. The most structurally sound board I've ever owned. Plenty of expansion slots and the overall layout is very easy to work with

Cons: Its only rated for 3200 RAM speeds and I can't get 3600 speeds to run stable. By far the largest, and only con I've found so far: It simply will not do what it doesn't advertise. Can you believe the nerve of these people? Oh, it does take a little longer to POST than I'm used to.

Overall Review: It recognized everything I plugged into it and didn't give me any issues. The RAM initially started at 2133. XMP'd it to 3600 and got a reboot cycle! Manually set it to 3200 and its been rock solid. Updating the BIOS was quick and painless. I've never owned a board this stiff. Or this expensive - I tend to stay under 700 and shoot for around 500 in most of my builds - but I'm a man now, so I thought I'd buy something that reflects this. I'm very pleased with my purchase and I'd recommend it to anyone who's planning a current SLI system or one that can do SLI as finances permit. If you're content to stay with a single graphics card, save yourself some money and go with B350.

Pros: The board itself is very solid with just about everything you could ever need. The power phase is outstanding and my 1700 was up and running at 3.9 Ghz in short order once the memory was sorted out. The system runs very cool even overclocked thanks to the low TDP of the 1700 and the beefy 16 phase power and the availability of PState overclocking. Ryzen is so much value for money! Working in Windows is a dream on this system. I use a high end XEON system at work and this is much snappier and has more horsepower for graphics tasks. Game run so smooth and seamless and paired with my RX480 and a Freesync monitor I could not be happier.

Cons: The manual and other documentation is a complete joke. ASRock needs to get a hold of an Asus manual to see how to provide documentation. The motherboard layout diagram has text so small I could hardly read it and with the image silk screened on the motherboard not everything is marked properly. The bios has all of the basics for overclocking but is anemic compared to my Asus 990FX Sabertooth board. Once you get a handle on it it does the job but feels sparse for a "high end" X370 motherboard. I did have a few installation issues overall that I will mention. I had to move my Corsair LPX 3000 kit to channels A1 and B1 to have the system recognize the memory in dual channel mode. Before that it was stuck at 2133 mhz. Now with the 3.0 BIOS update and the memory in dual channel I have been able to overclock it to 3066. My other issue was an unrecognized DVD drive that would not work until I moved the sata connector to another port (know windows 10 issue). Finally I had a major problem with my Razer Chroma headphones causing the system to crash and not allow for me to boot to windows. A full uninstall and reinstall of the Razer software fixed the issue. It is unknown if this is a bug with the motherboard or with Razer software and X370. The importance of using a qualified memory kit for this motherboard can not be understated. If the memory is not right the motherboard just boots over and over trying to get it to work. Then you have to go into the bios that, at times, can be slow and buggy. The interface of the ASRock software is also not very streamlined. I mean it looks OK but also was designed as function over form. It works but a little more detail as to how you move around in the software and how it looks overall would add a lot to the "feel" of the software. I know this is very picky but I design signs for a living so the aesthetics is important to me. Once again I say to AsRock to go look at ASUS software. The RGB on this board is anemic at best. If you want RGB this is not your board. If you do not care about RGB or just want a little bit to accent your build then this IS your board! Personally I think some RGB towards the top of the board would have accented it nice but it is nothing to take an EGG away for. At least it has a lot of RGB connections if you want to add more lighting. I can write off most issues to perhaps a windows 10 and or motherboard problem but it is not enough to detract from the overall excellence of this motherboard. The real issue is the documentation. A new PC builder may have issues with such a sparse manual so I have to give the overall Tiachi "package" 4 eggs but the board itself gets "5".

Overall Review: I am happy with my purchase and believe despite the slight issues i have had with this system this is by far the best X370 motherboard for the Money. You will not be disappointed but be patient! System Specs: Asrock X370 Taichi with 1700 running at 3.9 ghz (5 "Eggs") Cooler Master Masterliquid 240 (5 "Eggs" - Save some money this CPU does NOT need a 280 mm Cooler) Corasir 3000 LPX Memory running at 3066 XMP in White Color (5 "Eggs") Samsung 960 EVO boot drive (5 "Eggs") 2TB storage drive Asus RX480 8 GB Phanteks Enthoo Pro Case (5 "Eggs") Go to Tech City on You Tube for his AMD overclocking guide. He uses this motherboard and when I followed his guide I was able to overclock this board in 20 minutes and it is rock solid stable!

Pros: - I really like the look of the board - High quality components - Very impressive power delivery with 16 phase VRM - Has my 1700X stable at 4Ghz on 1.35 volts - Premium specs for less $ than other brands - Got it for $189.99 on launch day

Cons: - None other than some growing pains that come with early adoption of new hardware

Overall Review: I was lucky enough to order this board on launch day before they sold out. I held off on writing a review because the board was only able to boot with my RAM set at 2400Mhz with earlier bios versions. Thankfully ASRock has been steadily releasing bios updates and with the beta bios version 1.94A that released today, I am finally able to use the XMP settings and run my RAM at 2933Mhz.

Pros: 10x SATA 6gb ports (8 via chipset, 2 via ASMedia chip) Lots of USB 3.0/3.1 ports ATX form factor 5 total 4-pin fan connectors M2_1 is not obstructed or covered by the PCIe x16 CPU slot M2_2 *might* be obstructed by the second PCIe x16 slot depending on the width of the video card Flash BIOS via Internet live while in the BIOS! (I've previously only seen this feature available on Enterprise server motherboards) The primary factors for my purchase were great previous experience with an ASROCK x77 motherboard and 10x SATA ports, and 4 chassis fan connectors. My upgrade was from a Supermicro C7Z87 Haswell board running an i7 4770k processor in a Supermicro pedestal server EATX chassis. This is the chassis: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811152135 The Supermicro chassis has 4 x 5k midplane fans with a ducted air shroud to focus air from 3 of the fans to the CPU and RAM. This chassis paired with the Taichi board and the Noctua NH-L9x65 SE-AM4 CPU cooler fit perfectly in the chassis while being able to use the ducted air shroud! I have 10mm of clearance between the shroud and the heatsink. This Noctua also has 2 pair of mounting brackets to let you choose the orientation of the heatsink. There is plenty of clearance on the Taichi board to orient the Noctua cooler such that the fins will point front to back allowing airflow to flow directly through the heatsink to exit the chassis. I might be able to get by without having to use the CPU fan on the heatsink, I have not tested my temps for that yet. My build is rounded out by the Ryzen 1800x and 32GB of Crucial Ballistix DDR4 - 2400 RAM. The Taichi board supports 2 pieces of dual-ranked DDR 2400 and 2667 RAM in slots A2/B2. The build was a snap. I had no issues installing the board and building the system out with the hardware. I populated CPU and RAM prior to installing the motherboard as the Noctua cooler requires removing the plastic mounting brackets and replacing them with their metal kit. I found this process easy to do with the motherboard out where I could work on it. I was able to flash the BIOS on the first boot via Internet with no issues and was up and running within 10 minutes of powering up! I haven't had a chance to really dig into the system yet, but so far it's quicker than my Haswell just in real-feel work tasks. After letting the fan system detect my fan speeds, my chassis fans are running at a quiet 2k RPM under medium load. I still need to stress it to see how loud it goes, but so far it's quieter than my Haswell build while also putting out more heat. My RAM was detected at 2400 speed automatically on first boot and the system moved it automatically to XMP profile 2. The RAM kit is not on the QVL, but I have had really great luck with Crucial Ballistix RAM in the past on various other builds. The kit number is BLS2K16G4D240FSC 32GB Kit 2 x 16GB DDR4 - 2400. I've doubled my processor cores and RAM on this build, so now I need to do some media encoding tests to see just how fast this sucker can go!

Cons: Initial boot time of the board is slower than my Supermicro C7Z87. That is an ATX 'server' board though and an Intel chipset, so I don't know if it's really a con or not. There is an ultra fast boot option supported if you run Windows 8.1 or later, but I am running Linux on my system so I haven't tried it. My boot drive is a Samsung 840 120GB SSD, about 4 years old. Perhaps POST time will improve with a future BIOS update.

Overall Review: Honestly, I love this board! The black and white design looks awesome and by accident I ended up with white DDR4 RAM so it looks extra cool! As the pictures show, there are blue LEDs around the southbridge heatsink that look really cool. It's a shame I can't see the board through my server case. There is a standoff for each of the M2 slots installed on the motherboard. One of my standoffs was loose in shipping and when I opened my board, it fell to the floor. It was accidentally swept up into my kid's legos, which I later found by pure luck. Honestly, I'm sure ASROCK would have sent me another one to replace it if I had asked. Just be mindful when taking the board out of the static bag to check to see if the standoffs are present. Also, a note about the rebate program! In addition to the $20 rebate offered here through Newegg, ASROCK is offering an additional $10 if you submit a review like this and submit a copy of the review with your rebate submission. I'm considering building a Threadripper system later this year. I'm very interested to compare the x399 Taichi with the x370 Taichi to see how they compare! I'm very happy with ASROCK. I left AMD builds 10 years on socket 939 when I had 3 motherboards fail inside of 18 months from another manufacturer. From the build quality of this board, I am confident it will last me a long time.

Pros: Great looking board, love the color. Color LEDs look beautiful. Like Newegg but the terms of the $50 rebate turned me off.

Cons: Nothing

Overall Review: Wasn't happy with the $50 rebate terms. You have 10 days from invoice date to submit so if it takes 4-5 days for your product to arrive you basically have a couple of days to test your product and send away for the rebate. i was disqualified due to it being late. I couldn't mail in for rebate right away because my computer was freezing up randomly. Thought it was the board. I couldn't want to cut out the UPC in case it was the board. Turned out it was Windows 10 causing the problem. Updating Windows fixed the issue. Out $50 for rebate which sucked but the board is great so I'm not going to give a bad rating because of the rebate issue.

Pros: Serial Number: 75M0XB031572 I've spent the better part of two weeks with the Asrock Taichi motherboard as a core component of my newly completed Ryzen 1700X gaming build and my initial impressions are positive. Although I have not tested all of the many features this board offers I'll at least speak to my experiences thus far and perhaps update this review in the future if there is something of note to mention. First, let me list my core specifications, Asrock Taichi X370 AMD Ryzen 1700X Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16 GB at 2400 mhz Nvidia GTX 1080 Asus ROG Strix variant. Samsung 950 Pro 256 GB, Samsung 850 Evo 1TB, Western Digital Hard Drive 3 TB The build quality of the board looks and feels solid, as it should for a board approaching the $200 neighborhood. This board certainly felt a lot better than a $99 Asrock Intel Skylake board I bought last year. That board was feature-rich too, but I certainly could tell the PCB felt cheap. This board is both attractive with its white on black color scheme and gear motif. I certainly enjoy the RGB accents and overall, the board looks good in my windowed case. I also like how two of the three PCIE 3.0 slots are reinforced by metal. Overall, I think the board looks and feels quality for a decent price. The board posted on the first try and all my components worked perfectly save for my NZXT Kraken x62, which I ended up returning for a Corsair H110i. A lot of AIO watercoolers need a bracket to accommodate AM4 so I made sure mine was compatible out-of-the-box since all 1700Xs don't even come with a CPU fan. I didn't really pay much attention to the Tweaktown award for the board's Wi-Fi capabilities, but they were right to praise it. It worked flawlessly and my connection really zips through Steam downloads. I regularly see 12 Mbps on my connection. The Bluetooth works great with my Xbox controller. I've had boards with built in Bluetooth that performed horribly even after driver updates so I am happy about that as well. Most people will prefer less latency with an Ethernet connection, but my desktop is in a room that can be wired directly into a router so having the built in wi-fi and bluetooth work as well as they do right out of the box was pleasing. I was able to do away with my PCIE wi-fi adapter. The Purity Sound system sounds great so far with my 5.1 speaker setup. I am not to well versed on audiophile stuff but I at least am not running to buy a sound card at this point. I like the I\O options for this board. There are two M.2 drive slots and 10 sata ports. Just be aware that a PCIE interface is disabled if using the M.2 slot and I think some sata ports are not available in certain configurations. The manual doesn't do a good job explaining it, but Google Level1Techs overview on Youtube by Wendell. He does an excellent job going through all of the Taichi's data lane intricacies. As for me, the board boots up in seconds off my 950 Pro and I have three other drives connected for my mass storage needs. I'll agree with the four and five star reviews on Newegg. Right now I'd be closer to four stars than five because I haven't tested all the features just yet and the bad documentation sticks out for me. That aside, this is the best Asrock board that I've ever owned and I think it stands as one of the best you can find in the early days of Ryzen. I've upgraded from my Intel Haswell build of 2013 with no regrets and if you are building a Ryzen desktop this motherboard should definitely be an option even if you haven't tried an Asrock board before.

Cons: The BIOS is not very well executed in my opinion but I was able to make good use on the Instant Flash tool in it to slowly and carefully improve the motherboard with Asrock's fast and furious BIOS updates over the past couple months of Ryzen. My board shipped with P1.60 BIOS version and I flashed all the way up to 2.40 incrementally with a USB drive and the BIOS files from Asrock's support site. It's an easy process. Though not as well packaged as the Asus motherboards I have purchased that came boxed with a sturdy plastic top the Taichi was snugly fit into an anti-static bag zip tied down to a foam shell in a nice black box. The high bandwidth SLI bridge included is a nice touch and comes along with the manuals, driver, disc, M.2 mounting screws, Wi-Fi antennas, and so forth. The literature included with the board is average and could use improvement. I appreciate that there is a UEFI BIOS guide that goes over features in addition to the core manual, but that core manual does not go over a lot of the functionality of the boards features or include QVL lists and other really useful information that you otherwise would have to hunt for on Asrock's website. For instance, while the board has the handy Dr. Debug feature when I actually needed to figure out what an error code meant the manual did not even provide the chart that I needed to troubleshoot a lack of output to my television, I had to lug out my laptop, go the support website, and pull up the information there. I know for some experienced builders a well written and detailed manual is not a high priority, but I'm of the mind that it is something that shows a lot of care and pride in the product and an essential reference tool that shouldn't be 15 to 20 pages of poorly translated and sparsely detailed instructions that are printed in several languages and that's it.

Overall Review: A quick note that I had to install an extra standoff in a different position for this ATX board as Asrock shifted the location of the mounting point lower on the board. It wasn't a big deal but I wanted to mention it. So if your stand-offs come preinstalled you might have to move one.

Pros: - Ryzen is power hungry but the VRM modules are high quality, staying nice and cool which is why I chose this board. - Runs smoother than a buttered bullet with the new November BIOS flash, 0 conflicts. - Memory with XMP Profile#1 found 3200mhz right away. - Overclocking through BIOS was a breeze, got my 1800x to 4.0 stable and solid. I could push it more, but I'm content. - Little RGB on the board, it's subtle yet effective. - 11-total fans on my build (dual radiator setups) and I still have extra PWM fan headers. - Great on board AUDIO. - Built in Wifi is a nice touch.

Cons: - I'm really struggling to find a negative on this board so far.

Overall Review: - 1st time I booted, took a short while to post but it did eventually.