ASRock X570 Taichi, review: a big board with a very serious fault

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Today we analyze the ASRock X570 Taichi, one of the top-of-the-range motherboards that ASRock has launched with the latest chipset for the Ryzen 3000. We have already analyzed two X570 motherboards: the ASUS ROG Strix X570-E Gaming and the Gigabyte X570 AORUS MASTER , and today it is up to an ASRock model that had everything to be one of the best plates, but that has a serious flaw as we will see later.
Unboxing

The motherboard box is quite bulky, due in part to the curious opening mechanism it has, with a cardboard that moves as we open it. When opened, we find the plate protected with antistatic plastic, located on top of a cardboard tray surrounded by a dense foam that protects it from bumps.

If we lift the cardboard lid, we find all the accessories included in the box, which are:

     Manual and DVD with drivers
     Postcard
     4 SATA 6 Gbps cables; 2 straight and 2 with one of the angled tips
     1 SLI HB Bridge L
     3 screws for mounting M.2 SSD
     3 standoffs for M.2 SSDs of different sizes
     TR8 screwdriver
     WiFi antenna with cables

ASRock X570 Taichi: external analysis and technical characteristics

The aesthetics of the motherboard is very modern and with a certain steampunk touch with that cogwheel at the bottom. That cogwheel is purely aesthetic, with the chipset fan just above where the slots are visible. That location is really disastrous as we will see later in the Test section, since, by placing a graphics card in the upper slot, the fan is covered and makes even more noise.