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with the new release of AMD's N+ risin second generation CPUs they came a new generation wave of motherboards here on the desk we have the x4 70 tachi ultimate from asrock now you may be wondering what is the difference between this x4 70 and the x3 70 Taichi well there's not a whole lot of differences but we will go through the main chunk and then talk about what this motherboard has in particular to offer for you and of course the first thing is the aesthetic big change up between the white and black theme X 370 and this one here which features a lot of gunmetal gray there's also the addition of what as rock called polychrome RGB or aka addressable RGB so you can plug in for instance an ml 240 our RGB water cooler from Coolermaster and you can sync that up with your motherboard which you can control within Windows itself all the BIOS and there is a lot of different modes to choose from as well as changing things like the speed also some other nitty gritties as well we have to get out of the way USB 3.1 out and AMD's licensed for store mi technology which essentially enables you to get a 32 gigabyte nvme Drive for example or 64 gigabyte couple it with a two terabyte hard drive and then you can use that nvme storage as caching very similar to intel's opportune technology however you just need a license you don't need any special device or hardware to make use of this now the last major difference actually there is another little one I'll talk about that soon is in the center of the motherboard not just has the aesthetic change but they've also included an MDOT two heatsink and when I was testing this out this actually made quite a sizable difference to the nvme temperatures when I was running a stress test for 10 minutes the actual nvme probe sensor was recording 80 degrees versus 66 degrees and when I used the thermal imaging camera that showed a massive 20 degree drop as well so this shield is working properly much like gigabyte and also azusa's shields that I tested on their motherboards I'm yet to see MS I release a shield that actually works so I guess we're waiting on them to do that but the solutions here offered by asrock does work exceptionally well and here up on the table now with the x4 70 Taichi ultimate is the last difference and it's quite ironic because there's no fancy audio branding on this motherboard itself it's just literally the caps and then a little shield over the top and a little bit of RGB there but this is where the Taichi ultimate really shocked me the onboard audio is literally as good as a dedicated solution now so if you've got a mid-range set of cans you'll notice like absolutely no bass roll-off I got from five Hertz and under there was like a tiny bit I think was like 2 decibel drop in bass so if you're a sub bass lover and you've got a good pair of cans this motherboard will deliver a phenomenal experience that frequency response curve was literally just flat the whole way through perfectly flat and then also when it came to the crosstalk feeders they were exceptional as well however if you do go over a volume level of 90 so if you're at volume level of 91 with this motherboard there will be audio leaking over from the left channel to the right channel so basically if you've got a decent set of headphones mid-range cans and you want the best listening experience on this motherboard then just keep your volume level at 90 or under otherwise there will be crosstalk and that's where the channels leak into each other so it is a little bit of a weird problem one which motherboard companies are addressing and they are fixing however the mic end port there's absolutely no noise at all I do believe they're using a little bit of noise suppression but I'll let you guys take a quick listen even at a hundred volume with plus 30 dB so the audio is quite literally the best I have seen yet for onboard audio so it's a really good thing because every year it just keeps getting better and better as rock kudos for making the onboard audio phenomenal the one gigabit per second NIC solution that is an I tube on one from Intel there's also the acquainted ten gigabits per second NIC solution testing the speeds that are absolutely fine you've got USB 3 loaded on the back of this thing six ports and also a three point one type A and a type C on the rear as well as 7.1 optical out and your standard 5.1 analog out there's also dual band wireless covering 2.4 and 5 gigahertz bends as well as the clear CMOS button ps2 port and a HDMI 1.4 out so things have changed in some areas between this X 470 and the previous X 370 taichi however things that haven't changed is the vrm design they're still using a 12 + 4 phase vrm 4 phases dedicated towards the system on chip 12 phases dedicated towards the cpu and for those MOSFETs they're using Texas Instruments next FETs these are rated at 40 amps maximum capacity so you can imagine all the amount of amperage you've got at your disposal as well as putting 60 amp chokes and 12 K Nietzsche con caps so really phenomenal vrm this also expands over to the memory as well dedicating two phases towards your ddr4 memory banks now for the memory I did manage to clock my memory up to 36 hundred megahertz this is on the a g.skill camo memory so this motherboard is capable of providing very high speeds depending of course on your CPU at your IMC and of course your memory itself but I will say this this motherboard will not hold back air or water overclockers in any way shape or form both on the CPU and memory side of things however moving on into the BIOS they haven't changed things up again it looks exactly the same as the previous X 370 bias as well things like your fantastic tuning are there and also things like changing your system on chip load line calibration and also saving profiles with these is also available as well as updating your bias on the fly if you have an internet connection so now we're at conclusion time and is the X force 70 Tai Chi ultimate a goodbye it comes in at 299 us in Australia there's no pricing at the moment I will update the description when that comes available but honestly this solution here is one of someone who needs 10 gigabits Nick on board as I've said in the past I do recommend getting a standalone Tang gigabits per second Nick's solution and just adding that in as you upgrade your motherboards through time I do believe 10 gigabits per second is going to stay here for quite a while which leaves that between a $70 difference between this and the Tai Chi non ultimate and there's not a whole lot of a difference there's the power buttons there's the Taichi versus Taichi ultimate branding as well as the tangy bits per second next solution at the back so they're the three factors and is that worth $70 for you me personally I would save the $70 I would go with the Tai Chi which is already phenomenally built from the ground up however me being on a test bench I can utilize the power and reset buttons that is a handy feature but it's not really going to be a selling point for most people so pricing is pretty good of course compared to the X 370 Tai Chi that's currently 205 dollars on Amazon so you're paying an extra $25 for that store in my license you're also getting the addressable RGB header the m2 shield which works phenomenally well and you're also getting better onboard audio than the previous generation of X 370 so ultimately comes down in the case of the Tai Chi with X 370 versus X 470 and are those differences worth it for you for the extra $23 for me personally yes however if you're coming from an X 370 motherboard you do not need to upgrade at all to X 470 I mean you do get improved and enhanced features but your core CPU performance your core memory performance isn't gonna change at all coming from a Tai Chi X 372 or not Tai Chi X 470 one thing I will also point out as well the nvme slots one of them the top slot here does go directly to the CPU via PCI 3 the bottom one however only goes to the chipset by a PC a Gen 2 so I would like to see asrock implement dual pcie 3.0 allowing for nvme raid 0 on this motherboard as I believe the 2700 is a great productivity CPU and raid0 nvme is definitely for productivity anyway guys hope you enjoyed today's video if you did then be sure to hit that like button let me know in the comment section below if you have any questions about the x4 70 Taichi ultimate or the Taichi nan ultimate and I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye ooh fancy and this time around they're just calling the Tang gigabit NIC option which is controllable from within do it within doze Bay does this guy ever breathe not at that outro man I don't know what happened there