Rambling about Asrock's AM5 motherboards.

i want to get 7500f. am i dumb to cheap out on ASRock B650M PG Lightning Micro ATX AM5 Motherboard?

Bought B650 PG LIGHTNING, and in real life with all other components installed it doesn't look that awful.

actually really useful rambling :D , thanks man !

A lot of people say that they think the Steel legends board is ugly. It isn't if it's built with the right components for the looks.

ASROCK Steel Series paired with a 7000x3d is phenomenal. Especially with the right RAM. Exceptional

I bought the X670E PRO RS as I got it cheap ($440 NZD(£215.07)) retail

Mainstream motherboards should come as follows:

2 Dims - Mine has 4 will never use the 2 extra…
2 NVMe - Mine has 4, will never use the 2 extra..
4-6 SATA
8+ USB A
2-3 USB C
Clear CMOS / BIOS reset
Post code @$200+

I bet most would concur here.

FYI: since the initial release of the b650M PG Riptide they have qualified it with up to ddr5 7200 ram. Love your videos.

Intel doesn't make sense as CPUs, only house heating.

Some really interesting musing and content here but you really need to learn how to edit your commentary - the number of times I found myself thinking "Jesus, will you move on already" when you are talking about trivial details like thumbscrews (you, yourself say it is trivial and everyone does it, then proceed to repeat the point needlessly for 2 minutes) or your repetitive and inane ramblings about aesthetics. Get on with it!

Never seen a video that needs timestamps so bad

"I don't like ASRock's designs, I don't like AM5, I'd rather run Intel"-- Which makes this video just about pointless. Fortunately, some people buy CPU's for things other 160 FPS gaming, and for us, AM5 Ryzen 7000 is a pretty nice platform. I didn't have to sell my kidneys for DDR5, and I don't need a 20A circuit to allow my CPU to hit full speed (OK-- I exaggerate. A little).

tbh I never care about extra pcie or sata ports. 2 sata ports is enough for me

the pro rs offers 5 nvme and 6 sata as like the only x670 board so ig thats the reason for it existing. Storage hogger builds.

I have the X670 steel legend. So far so good.

dude compares 13700k to 7 7700x without mentioning the most important difference...price hahahahahah, that's called an honest opinion

i miss the days wen your computer was just a beige box with green pcb s sitting forgotten under your desk. paying for sports car designed chassis and motherboards with tr4mpstamps? gosh molly me

I wonder why they didn't make the B650 PG Lightning just black instead of with those white lines. I am sure it would look quite good with a simple black PCB

I really like what they did with the Sonic Intel boards and B650E live mixer series. Shame they couldnt be as creative with the X670E range. However I may still be buying the Taichi after seeing how Asus is dealing with exploding CCD's and their RMA policy

I'm confused, you glossed right past the Live Mixer, but ended up apparently buying it and reviewing itlater instead of the rest you liked better....
Can you get a PCIe card that adds SATA ports. That's what I'd do.

All of us don't like Windows 11. Or windows 10.
Rocking Windows 7 in 2023, and have been since it came out.

I'm torn between this Taichi, the Asus X670E-E Gaming WiFi and the X670E AORUS Master. They all have similar specs and price. What are your thoughts?

For the B650E Taichi you spend quite a bit of time complaining that the PCIe slots aren't dual x8 slots, and how that's very disappointing. I can't really think of a real use case for dual x8 though. The idea behind this setup is that the GPU slot is PCI 5.0, which I know will be years before that bandwidth actually is needed, but it's future proofing the board.

The other PCI slot is for "whatever" and unless you're going to do some serious streaming/content editing and require an expansion card for that I can't even imagine what you'd want to use it for anymore (considering high speed internet and pretty good audio is already included in the board). So is this what you had in mind why you'd really want de dual x8 slots? So the board would be useful for those scenario's right now, as opposed to being future proofed for just gaming?

well Unix loves AMD over Intel or Nvida so ..... SMP works better on AMD it is not broken like Intel ..

late to the party, 650e taichi bottom power stage and fancy red capacitors probably for the pro audio sound chipset

B650E Taichi has 1x USB4, 1x M.2 SSD Gen 5 x4 + two Gen 4 x4 ... of course the second PCI-E x16 slot is only x4 electrical? It is a B650E board after all...I think they designed this board perfectly fine. You get all the new features at least once in a B650E board! No other B650E Board has this to my knowledge. I don't like the general beating Asrock gets.

Can you do this for the Asus boards?

The X670E PG LIGHTNING can also use the Asrock Thunderbolt 4 Add in PCIe Card if that's of use to you 😀

He just ignores gen 5 ports(coz HE doesn't need them), then asking why does it have less sata ports and why is it more expensive and counting usb ports on each mb for 90 minutes. Some useful shi right there.

I love his reference to Gray Mess.

The steel legends is on the top of my list.. for 360 euro it’s not cheap.. but I like the nvme gen 4 on the board. For running my vm’s and dual boot having a fast os drive sounds good to me. Reason I like the 7900 is the power utilization but I’m considering the 7950x. I like the better on board gpu as I don’t game that’s enough for me. Don’t think intel has onboard good gpu ???? And don’t know about heat on intel vs amd

Kind of short sighted. The AMD 3D chips should easily put Intel in its place.

A truly excellent ramble

U complaint the shit out of this review. Had to stop watching. Nothing positive to say.

This was your worst and most miserable RAMBLE that I've seen! - There's no other AM5 board that gives you Thunderbolt 4 port(s)! Not Asus, not Gigabyte, not MSI - the board includes the best onboard audio, along with the plethora of other I/O ports (HDMI2.0 & DP 1.4)
What do you do? You just hover over the I/O panel for a few secs and move on . . . ! I did not even watch the rest of "RAMBLE"
Grant you, These Taichi boards (X670E, B650E $370) are expensive for their class (just like the competition at that level), and are not as good looking as Asus boards, but they both beat the competiton at their respective class. Taichi class is the only AM5 board giving you Thunderbolt 4 / USB4. These two boards can handle any future AMD CPUs and upcoming devices you can through at them . . . .
I've watched your channel here n there for years and learned from your "Rambles/Reviews), but this time it seems like you were paid off to B.S. about Taichi boards.! Totally UNOBJECTIVE!

Won't be coming back here anymore . . .

If you really love the live mixer there are quality m.2 to five SATA port adapters.

Are you going to do an video about all the Asus boards, I’m curious about the X670E ProArt?
Like, it’s it useful for a gaming/3D-modeling build?

Doesn't the Intel cpus use a shit ton more power for minimal performance gains? I don't need a space heater in my room.

AMD just makes processors. Intel just needs to make a great processor! Not a Windows 11 accelerator! Because not everyone likes Windows 11 or will use it.

I'm after trying the intel Z790 version of the Taichi But when its below £400 or I will go MSI carbon for that kind of money

usb 4 is the big cost I feel like? only the Asus crossfire and itx have it otherwise

Now that the prices have dropped on the CPUs-----7600x is a pretty incredible value, for a gaming focused PC. That said, ~$40-$60 more gets you the 13600k, which is an incredible value for mixed usage (gaming and productivity like video work, rendering, 3D, etc).

I wish MB manufacturers would stop chasing the 2.5G LAN when almost no one has the infrastructure to support and especially when they cheap out and use Realtek NICs. The drivers are super flaky compared to Intel's. And Asrock don't even keep the drivers on their website updated. My PG Riptide LAN was spazzing out until I found updated drivers on Realtek's website that fixed the issue. And then I found this similar problem dates back many years to different versions of Realtek NICs on various MBs from different brands. Just give 1Gbps Intel NICs and call it a day