AsRock B550 Taichi Motherboard Review! 

Thank you for the FANtastic review Wendell & co. Such a refresh when usually watching a review is nothing more than benchmark fest (it's not bad, but I just feel bloated with benchmarks). All features are well explained and some interesting RAM speed news on XT chip. I once disappointed of B550 pricing but with all those features and much stronger VRM than its predecessor, now I understand why.

Thanks for reviewing IOMMU features . You are the only reviewer who cares about those details. Also I'd like to hear about AptX, AptX HD и AptX LL implementation in Windows for the motherboard. If someone cares about IOMMU implementation in Oracle® VM VirtualBox you can search for PCIe Passthrough section in Oracle docs. Cheers!

Thank you very much for your take on this board. Appreciate your review as you covered some things that were not covered by any of the other reviewers.

You are one of very few Sources who talk about IOMMU Groups. Please continue that, very much appreciated!

It's awesome that you talk about Linux and IOMMU. You're getting likes from me on every video I watch where you do it. :D

YES YES YES! The motherboard reviews are back to help my insomnia! :))))))) Also, good review.

Nice review, thnx! I have this b550 taichi with the 3900xt since two weeks, just super great :)

I know this is an old video by now, but I got this Mobo because of you, and I am loving it!

I have this B550 Taichi board and the Steel Legend B550. The Taichi is the only one of the two that will allow the use of a dual NVME card in the second PCI slot no matter what the X16 bifurcation setting is set to. I am thinking about replacing my Steel Legend to make them equal.

The fan was overblown. Puntastic!

I still remember the days we didn't have these awesome in depth reviews and bought PC hardware "by ear”...

The competition at this price range was the thing keeping me from pulling the trigger on some of the B550 boards, namely this one. Putting together a ryzen 3000 series system now and was looking into x570. Luckily two friends of mine both have x570 boards(Aorus Master which is an insane board and one of the ROG Asus boards..forget which one.) Sadly, both of them have a terrible fan whine when they get warm during gaming as mentioned in this video. AND they don't even utilize the PCIe 4.0 so not sure why they even have them. And then I thought...I probably won't either. If it works on the top slot to the CPU then I think that's all I really need. Pairing that with the quality VRM and other added features, some of these boards outclass X570 in my opinion. Based on what I need at least.

Wendell always does a great job of setting the vibe, thanks man

Nice review thank you! you even explained what ports are what and how the pci-e gen 1~1000 works on this board :D I really do appreciate the attention to details. So i will say again thank you sir well done!

I'm going to get a Taichi motherboard in my next build solely as a tribute to Wendell and his love for them.

Really cool effect going over the IO.

Great video, thank you

A little cheaper Option from ASRock is the Velocita, Extreme 4 or the Steel Legend which are basically the same Board with minor Differences. Whats missing is Bios Flashback and they have a Realtek 2.5G LAN Chip, also Wifi is just an Option.

Perfect review .I got this motherboard and one thing i dont like is BIOS looking like from 90s , before this mobo i had ASUS Formula 7 and bios there is done perfectly .

"personally I think it was overblown" No pun intended?

I think I can safely buy a X470 then. Thanks, Wendell.

My 3900x runs at an Asus B450 Gaming F with IF 1900 and DDR4 3800 without issues . I am not a Hardcore Gamer and the Difference of 8 Lanes to 16 Lanes 3.0 is small , i use only 8 Lanes for the Graphics Card , 4 Lanes for NVME ( in Raid 0 + the 4 CPU NVME Lanes = 2 NVME SSD ) and a 10 Gig Ethernet Card ( 4 Lanes , 25 Dollar E Bay ) If a look at it , oh boy , what 3 years can make a Difference , in January 2017 quad Cores still were state of the Art in Mainstream , thank you AMD for Ryzen . Now i have not only 12 Cores , i have an NVME Raid , 32 GB DDR4 @3800 , 10 Gig Ethernet at an 130 Dollar B450 Motherboard ... , pretty high Specs for Mainstream ..

I GOT A 3090 AND A AMD Ryzen 9 5900X IS THIS THE MOTHERBOARD I AM LOOKING FOR!!! I WANT IT SO BAD!

My friend got this motherboard to play FortNite. Nice looking motherboard. However, if you put on a big air cooler and big GPU, 90% of the motherboard RGB is covered up.

He's right. For example rn i have rtx 2060 super and x570 rog strix e-gaming. It's kinda long gpu. And that's where the problem comes. The stupidity of putting a fan (and a rlly small one) makes not only chipset goes up to 60 degrees without doing nothing (literally just starting pc) but also when you stress it for example playing on 4k (like i did with my 2060s on dmc5) it makes chipset go around 68 - 69 degrees and gpu also. I even took down chipset's cover and moved gpu into 2nd slot and believe me it didn't help at all.

Great mobo, crazy price.

It would be really great to see a vid about the best "bang for the buck" vfio setup for home. I'm thinking 8c/16t. I kind of wonder if it is worth considering Intel because of GVT-g.

Why have they desoldered the Thunderbolt 3 Header? This is such a pity :(

No IOMMU Separation... #NullPurchase

cardboard test bench ftw

Funny thing because I've observed that UNDERVOLTING my 1st gen Ryzen 7 1700X also gives better results. About 20-30 points bump in Cinebench R20. And it is 100% replicable on my X370-PRO.

Hi Wendell, I'm going back to an ITX rig and I've just bought a new Asrock B550 itx/ax board. Would be great if you analize it!!. BTW I know I'm going to miss the X570 Aorus Master I'm replacing and selling (one of the best boards I've ever had) but I need it to downgrade a bit and go for an smaller in rig in size.

I gonna wait for zen3 + rdn2 rx 6700 with my asus rog strix b450-f + r5 2600 (for better vrm thermals just remove the plastic shroud covering the IO) +freezer 34 duo + rx 570 4gb.

There is a lot of competition from X570 boards at this price range.

The real question about purchasing B550 boards instead of B450 is : ... why? Get a 450 at half the price and change everything when AM5 and DDR5 releases.

Wendell is it technically correct to say “3rd gen ryzen CPU’s” regarding ryzen 3,000? Or only for zen 3 stuff? If it’s only zen 3 stuff then ryzen 6000 will still be considered 3rd generation ? Bit of a shame if things continue to approach Intel levels of wonky naming schemes

What do you like more: taichi or chai tea?

An important detail to point out, in my opinion, for people who want a mini-ITX board: what's the point of going X570 ? You don't even have the place on those small motherboards for more than one GPU and one NVMe drive, both of which will be running off the CPU. And by the way, can anyone explain to me why we even need/put chipsets on mini-ITX motherboards ? As far as I know, most of the IO can run off those modern CPUs, right ?

Hey Wendell, ty for this. You mentioned you wouldn't quite recommend this for virtualization. Do you (or anyone else reading) potentially have a go-to B550 for that?

1:08 X370 Pro BTC+ just look at that monstrosity!

So if I understood correctly the board is pretty much plug and play for Linux? What about CPU temp read out? Does it work properly u der Linux so that I can set fan curves based on CPU temps in BIOS? Thanks for the review!

I have that super common Gigabyte RX 500 series card as a decoration on my shelf lol. Rx 580 8GB. I see it all. The. Time. Especially in vids on YT. I have a b450 board and 5700XT with 3600. Makes me want to upgrade mobo for VRM, but more so connectivity and IO/storage etc. Plus the 5700XT isnt doing what id like, had driver issues etc. 144hz1080p isnt even super stable in newer AAA games. Almost wanna build a whole new 10600k based RTX 3000 system when it releases. Maybe i live in a box and just build PCs and steal internet :D

I never liked Asrock ever since a reviewer , on pulling the board out of its sleeve to reveal and review it, made the PCB crack (distinct sound) He was holding it less vertically than preferable but it still cracked. . ASUS boards are thicker for a reason I suppose.

Love your vids! :)

3:55 There are NO PCIe 2.0 lanes on B550. It's all 3.0 off the chipset.

Do you remove the sticky plastic on the back of the cpu mounting bracket? First time AMD builder here.

Got an interesting issue with a build of mine, 3700X, Asus Prime B550-PLUS... boot, windows update, cannot boot again :) Love to go through RMA process.

Hi I got this board and I have 1 problem. Every time i save and exit from bios it does not restart immediately I need to press the reset button again to boot up. Please help me.

so are they going to put out an Taichi x570 v2 at some point? incorporating things they did here?

... the more I listen, the more I think what I want for my 4950X is an X-570, not a B-550. I don't like the idea of a chipset fan, but I hear from people the only time that thing ever even spins up, is while you're flashing the BIOS. If you had 4 or 6 different PCIe4 M.2 drives on there, and you were running it as a web server, with hundreds of people collaborating on shared projects, like say part of the Australian Tax Office, or the Dep Social Insecurity database, then you'd (maybe) have issues with the chipset fan, but any single user doing any normal desktop use case... The big advantage of the B-550 was it was supposed to be considerably cheaper, except it isn't. The ones that're made to a high standard, (which is many of them, not all) cost pretty much the same as an X-570. But your 550 chipset is far simpler and doesn't have as many channels...

It was the same thing with B450 Boards They tended to run the chips and perform better than X470 did, unless you bought a very high end X470 motherboard.. AMD keeps doing this Crap with the motherboard's.. Bet if you stuck an XT chip in this B550 board it would hit and hold it's turbo clocks all day with a 280 Rad and up.. I have the X370 Taichi and I'm going to try and keep it for the next 3 years I figure if I can get a 3800XT to run on my board and with a GPU upgrade in 6 months as well Either Big Navi if it's what it's supposed to be?? Big If I Know.. Or I'll have to go 3070 maybe a 3080 if it's not to much, And that should hold me at 4K 60Hz for the next 2/3 years for gaming.. Really Hope RDNA 2 is as good as people are saying.. Rather give Team red the money, all around better business practices right now..

I've had nothing but problems with this board. Cannot get anything to run correctly. Constantly locks up my PC. Boot issues. Won't let me put ram to 3600 or even 3200. Pretty sure I got a lemon.

Any complaints on the 2.5G Intel LAN? I have some friends saying it's having packet loss issues, is this true?

Arrrgh! Another B550 Mobo without an authentic 0x378 LPT parallel port.

please ASRock, make the gears spin slowly

nice WHooooo!!!!

What I paid for my X470 Taichi gives these boards a run for their money. $165 for my X470 and it ticks almost all the same boxes

I don't care about x570 with fan. I feel like I have mobo from 1995... It is not as hard to make LARGER radiator.

I run my X570 Taichi with 1T & 2T m.2s and a thunderbolt 3 card. B550 Taichi would not do for me :(

What software do they edit their videos with?

How should I expect it to work if I want to install a nvidia p2000 graphics card on the top x16 PCIe slot, than a x8 PCIe SAS HBA card and a x4 PCIe dual 10 GBe NIC? Can it work in x16/x8/x4????

Does it have a temp sensor plug?

Does the motherboard work with ryzen 5000 processors out of the box?

Lenovo ThinkStation P620? ........thx

AMD slowly becoming Intel. Now AMD just make things to increase price.

no PS/2 port ....

Too expensive. Sure looks nice, shame about the price.

why not DDR4 5000 RAM?......it's good or bad?

lights up Ethernet port and says wifi :-P

last time i was this early people were still saying "first!" instead of "last time i was this early..."

He's wears 💙😂blue 🔵shirts when😂 show casings AMD products, 😋😅

2nd

older games and mentions shadow of the tomb raider .... ya no

AMD FTW

Had you snorted something illegal before starting this video Wendell?

Wendell please for the love of god cut out the soyface.

60th, lol