Wednesday, May 21st 2025

ASRock Displays Its New Taichi OCF and Creator, and Phantom Gaming X870E/X870 Motherboards

In addition to new graphics cards, ASRock also showcased a couple of new motherboards at the Computex 2025 show in Taipei, including the new X870E Taichi OCF, X870 Taichi Creator, as well as the new Phantom Gaming X870 Nova Wi-Fi motherboard.

The star of the show is the new X870E Taichi OCF, which is also the first OC Formula motherboard based on AMD platform. This feature packed motherboard will support AMD Ryzen 9000, 8000, and 7000 series processors on AM5 socket. It features a 25-power phase VRM with 110A SPS, has two DDR5 DIMM slots, two PCIe 5.0 x16 and single PCIe 4.0 x4 slot, a total of six M.2 ports (two of which are PCIe Gen 5 x4), plenty of USB ports, 5 Gbps Ethernet, integrated Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth, and most importantly, "Professional Overclocking Toolkit", which means that this one is aimed at some high overclocking. ASRock also showcased the new X870 Taichi Creator, a more standard motherboard that has 21-phase VRM design, but comes with Marvell's 5 Gbps and 10 Gbps Ethernet ports.
ASRock also had the X870 LiveMixer motherboard on display, a series which was recently only offered based on the B860 and Z890 chipsets, as well as the new Phantom Gaming series X870 NOVA WiFi, and the PRO Series X870 PRO-A WiFi motherboards.
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8 Comments on ASRock Displays Its New Taichi OCF and Creator, and Phantom Gaming X870E/X870 Motherboards

#1
freeagent
Hopefully the OCF isnt a thousand bucks.
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#2
rv8000
freeagentHopefully the OCF isnt a thousand bucks.
I can’t imagine it’s more than the APEX, currently $749. If they do manage to lose their marbles and price it above that, the only new 2 dimm board is going to be a smeh matx mpower board because Gigabyte apparently doesn’t care about putting out the Tachyon any longer.

I’d like a memory oc focused board, but at or above $600 is too much.
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#3
Auxityne
The X870 LiveMixer looks fantastic, but as an X870 board, I have to wonder about the PCI-E lane sharing.
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#4
blinnbanir
AuxityneThe X870 LiveMixer looks fantastic, but as an X870 board, I have to wonder about the PCI-E lane sharing.
I have the X870E Taichi and I can say that I admire what As Rock do but make sure you read the MB manual for any MB you buy.
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#5
snapdragon
They need Thunderbolt 5 directly on the board.
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#6
rv8000
@GFreeman did ASRock comment on a potential release window for the OCF?
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#7
Munkus
ASRock needs to work with AMD to figure out what's killing the 9000 series chips (especially X3D) on their boards. Until that's resolved, I'm avoiding anything they make.
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#8
LegacyxV2
I like the design of the x870 livemixer but with it having 2 gen5 m.2 slots would that have the same effect as z790 model where 1 can be used
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