- We're here at ASRock's booth at Computex 2023
and they've sponsored a video for us
to go through a whole bunch of their stuff.
Just gobs and gobs of it,
starting off with the Taichi.
So, this right here is the Z790 Taichi
and it is a beautiful motherboard,
the fastest that we have ever had a CPU going.
6.9 gigahertz, nice.
Was on this exact board, but the thing was,
in order to do that, we had to strip this off.
And do you need gears to go really fast? No.
Do you need this fancy RGB lighting? You do not.
And now, they'll just sell you a motherboard
that has none of that stuff on it.
So, this right here is the Taichi Lite,
what is arguably the best motherboard on the market
and just stripped away all of the stuff
that adds to the price.
Like for instance, this little piece of aluminum right here.
It sure does look fancy, but do you actually need it?
Probably not.
Go with this guy right here
and I really wish that other motherboard makers
would do a similar thing where you know,
we can get the highest of performance
but without all of the nonsense sort of stuff,
because like if you're putting this under LN2,
you don't need it anyway.
Up next we've got a variety of Phantom Gaming motherboards
going from the not-so-expensive Lightning
to the very feature-rich Nova,
but all of them have one thing in common
and it's one of my favorite new features.
Watch this, right here for you.
Just push there.
Bam, M.2 just coming right out.
Another thing right there.
You have your SSD.
That was incredibly simple.
No tools required.
I really do appreciate that.
On a lot of different mother boards,
they're coming out with tool-less M.2 solutions
and this is just taking it one step further
for that ultimate ease of use.
(M.2 clicking)
Now, on these two guys right here,
we have 16 phases for the CPU,
but over here on the top end of the line,
we have got a whole 20.
But the specs do not stop there.
We also have one PCIE Gen 5 slot,
that's the one that you can very easily take on and take off
but also we have an additional five other Gen 4 slots,
so you can basically build a NAS just on your motherboard.
That is crazy.
For these two here also,
they both have WiFi 7 connectivity.
Although that said, I don't really know why you'd use it
because they also have five gigabit LAN.
I would just plug into that. (laughs)
One thing that you don't necessarily see all the time
on a motherboard is USB Type-C,
but all three of these right here have got it
and so does the Taichi,
so I really do appreciate that little addition.
Why did I say addition like that?
Of course, you have your brand new motherboard
and you need a sick old GPU to put into it.
Now, we have our 7600.
This one here is the black one.
It comes in at the same MSRP as AMD's reference design.
If you wanna spend a little bit more,
we have the Steel Legend and it's white.
ASRock said that people have been asking them a whole bunch,
"We want white things from you," and here you go.
They have done it.
You can look over here, look at this. It's all white.
They have managed to do it, guys.
If you are building one of those snow white PCs,
they've got it in the big boy as well.
The white edition of the 7600,
even though it is a little bit more pricey,
it's also very easy to tell
that it's going to be better cooled.
We have three fans here, way more heat sink,
and it's,
yeah, you just have to look at them and know,
this one right here is going to run
either cooler or quieter.
But the most quietest of them all is right up here.
So, this is the Aqua 24 gigabyte
and they said it is their first fully water-cooled GPU
that they're offering,
and it comes with an extra special BIOS.
They said that working with AMD,
they were able to get a whole 400 watts out of this guy
so it can really just crank out those frames for you.
Now, I did have to ask.
You are technically probably able to put that on this guy
but they said it's gonna be very loud
which is why, of course,
you want the water cooling for the maximum performance.
Compared to the two-fan model
which has a 2,695 megahertz boost clock,
the three-fan one has a little bit more
at 2,725.
One last thing about the GPUs that I didn't mention before
is that this guy right here has a sick back plate.
Wasn't able to see it because this thing right here,
obviously, can't move it too much.
But it is rather fancy.
If you want a nice white graphics card
with that fancy black plate though,
but wanna spend a little bit extra money,
we do have the 6650 XT.
How much less money, I'm not entirely sure yet
but it does boost up to 2,669, so that's very nice.
So, you've got your graphics card
and you want to see all of those frames
that it is vomiting out?
Well, with this one right here instead
you can see a bunch of pixels.
This right here is the PG558KF
and it is, as the name might suggest,
a 55-inch monitor with an 8K resolution.
It has 252 zones of local dimming
and a peak brightness of 1,000 nits.
But really, it is that 8K resolution
that you're going to be looking for.
Now, ASRock does seem to be pitching this to gamers
and maybe you have a graphics card
that's able to push 8K resolution.
But what I would really want this for is first of all,
just watching things, it's gonna look great for that.
But also, like I could imagine
just cramming this full of all of your stuff,
like script right here,
you're watching a YouTube video over here.
You could video edit on this
and have like your whole display there, timeline,
and like all of your files,
and you don't have to worry about like,
it's a whole 4K playback up there.
That'd be pretty sweet.
If you're really looking
for that sort of like next gen gaming experience though,
I would be looking at the PG32UMF.
This thing right here has 1,400 nits peak brightness.
That is crazy.
This is a mini LED panel
and it has a total of 1,152 zones of local dimming,
meaning that you can get an actual proper HDR experience
on this thing
and even if you start dropping frames
with that big old 4K resolution,
it's G-Sync and FreeSync compatible.
On the back, we have a large variety of I/O with USB Type-C,
90-watt fast charging being the real star of the show.
That means for many thin and light laptops,
you can just plug it in with one cable
and you're off to the races.
What's on the back though, is WiFi.
I'm not entirely sure who needs this
but I'm sure someone does
because ASRock installed
some WiFi antenna extenders back here,
go all the way up into there.
Of course, I always recommend just plugging in LAN
but maybe that's not an option for you.
In which case,
this will get you some extra downloady downloads.
On top of having a WiFi antenna built in the back,
the PG27 QF-2A has a 1,440p resolution,
165 hertz refresh rate,
and 400 nits peak brightness.
We make it probably a really good middle round
and in my personal opinion, I like 1,440p still
'cause you can make sure that you can hit that 165 hertz.
4K, maybe not.
But maybe the thing that your monitor is missing
is another monitor.
This right here, we have a 1.3-inch OLED display
that can show you important things like your GPU temp
or not-so-important things like a GIF
or something like that.
It's just a fun little feature.
Maybe you just have a teeny tiny bit of space
on your desk though,
and that's where ASRock's little mini PCs come in.
This right here's the DeskMeet AM5
and you can actually fit a dual slot graphics card in here
up to 200 millimeters long.
You can see it sort of right down in there.
Of course this being ASRock,
they have some pretty serious motherboard making chops
and the one in here is very unique, come on over here.
Inside of the DeskMeet is this motherboard right here.
Well not this exact one, this is the last gen one,
but you get the basic idea.
It's like a mini ITX motherboard
but with just a little bit tacked onto the back.
That gives them the space
for not just two but four RAM slots,
as well as a bunch of I/O back here
for all of your, you know, plug-in stuff and need.
The new one will support AMD 7000 series up to 65 watts
and it's pretty cool.
One more thing, come back.
One weird thing though,
let's take a look at the back here. (laughs)
They've got a full-blown ATX power supply.
They've gone to all of the trouble
of like the custom motherboard,
making the 6 1/2 liter chassis,
but why?
Well, they have a very good reason, it's cheap. (laughs)
Buying one of these ATX power supplies is very inexpensive
and that has been passed on to the consumer.
So this guy right here, as a bare bones,
comes in around $180,
so you will still have to supply
like the CPU up to two M.2s and the GPU
but it still is pretty decent.
If you want something that's a little bit less space
on your desktop though,
we have the DeskSlim.
This guy right here,
you don't get as large of a graphics card.
As you can see,
we only have the little half-height jobbie here
but that is still enough for something like an A2000,
you know, the Quadro,
but Nvidia screwed up the naming on this generation.
So here, we've got a 300 watt TFX power supply
and also an optical drive.
An optical drive that's not plugged in apparently
but this is very clearly a business-orientated machine
where you might want something like that.
So, huge thanks to ASRock for sponsoring this video.
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