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After a long period of abstinence, it is time again to devote yourself to a Taichi model from ASRock. The test for the ASRock TRX 40 Taichi was almost a year ago. Now, however, we are not only moving from the HEDT to the mainstream platform, we are also moving from AMD to Intel. Because with the Z 490 Taichi offers ASRock an interesting motherboard for Intel’s LGA 1200 – processors that are said to be good for overclocking . In this test we will find out whether this is really true.

With the ASRock Z 490 PG Velocita (Hardwareluxx test) we already had an upper-class model in our hands, which did average in the test. So we are already curious whether the ASRock Z 490 Taichi will be more convincing, especially when it comes to overclocking. When the technical characteristics of both models are compared, numerous similarities can be identified. The only difference is that the Z 490 Taichi goes one better in some places. This is not by chance, because the Z 490 Taichi costs around 95 Euro more than the Z 490 PG Velocita.

From the basic structure, the Z look like 490 PG Velocita and the Z 490 Taichi looks very similar, although ASRock has adapted the colors a bit, but the ATX format remains true to it. Instead of red and black, ASRock has the Z 490 Taichi uses the colors gold and black, which makes a good visual impression.

Technical details

The ASRock Z 490 Taichi was given the following technical properties:

Chipset

Memory expansion

PCI-Express

PCI

audio codec

and connections

The data of the ASRock Z 490 Taichi in the overview

Mainboard format	ATX
Manufacturer and Ident ung	ASRock Z 490 Taichi
CPU socket	LGA 1200 (for Comet Lake-S)
Power connections	1x 24 – ATX pin	2x 8-pin EPS 12 V
phases /Do the washing up	16 piece (14 x for CPU, 2x for RAM)
Price	from 343 Euro
Website	ASRock
Southbridge / CPU features
Intel Z 490 Express chipset
Memory banks and type	4x DDR4 (dual-channel), max. 4. 666 MHz
Max. 128 GB UDIMM Non-ECC (with 32 – GB-UDIMMs)
SLI / CrossFire	SLI (2-Way), CrossFireX (3-Way)
Onboard features
2x PCIe 3.0 x 14 (electrical with x 16 / x8) via CPU 1x PCIe 3.0 x 16 (electrical with x4) via Intel Z 490 2x PCIe 3.0 x1 via Intel Z 343
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SATA (e), SAS and M.2 / U.2 interfaces	6x SATA 6 GBit / s via Intel Z 490	2x SATA 6 GBit / s via ASMedia ASM 1061 1x M.2 with PCIe 4.0 x4 via CPU (only with Rocket Lake-S!) 3x M.2 with PCIe 3.0 x4 via Intel Z 490 (M-Key, 32 Gbit / s, 2x shared)
USB	1x USB 3.2 Gen2x2 (external) via ASMedia ASM 3242 3x USB 3.2 Gen2 (2x external, 1x internal) via Intel Z 490 9x USB 3.2 Gen1 (5x external, 4x internal) 4x via ASMedia ASM 1074, 5x via Intel Z 490 4x USB 2.0 (4x internal) via Intel Z 490
Graphic interfaces	1x DisplayPort 1.4 1x HDMI 1.4b
WLAN / Bluetooth	WiFi 802. 11 a / b / g / n / ac / ax over Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX 201 CNVio, dual band, max. 2.4 GBit / s, Bluetooth 5.1
Thunderbolt	–
LAN	1x 1 GBit / s LAN via Intel I 219 – V 1x 2.5 GBit / s LAN via Realtek RTL 8018 BG-CG
8-Channel Realtek ALC 1220 Codec ESS Saber 9218 DAC (front audio) 5x 3.5 mm audio jacks 1x TOSLink
FAN header	1x 4-pin CPU-FAN header (adjustable)	1x 4-pin CPU-FAN / WaKü-Pump header 6x 4-pin chassis FAN / WaKü header (adjustable)
LED lighting	I / O panel cover, PCH, right side of the PCB 2x 4-pin RGB header 2x 3-pin RGB header (addressable)
Onboard comfort	Power button, reset button, clear CMOS button, BIOS flashback button, debug LED,

The supplied accessories

• Mainboard manual including driver and software DVD
• Software Setup Guide
• four SATA cables
• two M.2 spacers and three M.2 screws
• 2T2R WiFi antenna

various ASRock Taichi stickers

ASRock cable tie

2-Way-SLI-HB-Bridge

Torx screwdriver

ASRock Taichi Postcard