The ASRock X299 Taichi Motherboard Review
by Joe Shields on October 31, 2017 8:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
- Intel
- ASRock
- SLI
- CrossFire
- Taichi
- X299
- Skylake-X
- Kaby Lake-X
Gaming Performance 2017: AoTS Escalation
Ashes of the Singularity
Ashes of the Singularity is a Real Time Strategy game developed by Oxide Games and Stardock Entertainment. The original AoTS was released back in March of 2016 while the standalone expansion pack, Escalation, was released in November of 2016 adding more structures, maps, and units. We use this specific benchmark as it relies on both a good GPU as well as on the CPU in order to get the most frames per second. This balance is able to better display any system differences in gaming as opposed to a more GPU heavy title where the CPU and system doesn't matter quite as much. We use the default "Crazy" in-game settings using the DX11 rendering path in both 1080p and 4K UHD resolutions. The benchmark is run four times and the results averaged then plugged into the graph.
Surprisingly the MSI boards score lower on gaming with their multi-core turbo.
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UltraWide - Tuesday, October 31, 2017 - link
I love the PCIe lane chart, so simple and effective!hansmuff - Tuesday, October 31, 2017 - link
"Gaming is still a primary use on most motherboards and though 'Gaming' isn't in the Taichi's name, it keeps the same PCIe slot spacing, configuration, and slot protection as the Gaming i9, making the setup for multi-GPU configurations."I think you may have skipped a word :)
hansmuff - Tuesday, October 31, 2017 - link
And I replied to the wrong post. Oh well!Joe Shields - Wednesday, November 1, 2017 - link
Updated Yesterday. Good catch! Thank you!peevee - Tuesday, October 31, 2017 - link
"10 SATA ports"Why?
peterfares - Wednesday, November 1, 2017 - link
Yeah not sure why they're bothering with the controller to add the two extra.I guess some people need that many. Must want a lot of hard drives but not have them be externally connected through a NAS or other storage server.
jabber - Wednesday, November 1, 2017 - link
There will always be people that want to run the wrong hardware for the wrong job. Let them get on with it I say.ikjadoon - Tuesday, October 31, 2017 - link
I think this may have been left in body style instead of subheader style, on the overclocking page:Overclocking Results
Joe Shields - Tuesday, October 31, 2017 - link
Updated where needed. Thanks!Qasar - Tuesday, October 31, 2017 - link
so even with a 44 lane cpu, PCIe slot 5 has no connection ?? example.. vid card in Slot 1, sound card in slot 4, the x4 slot, so where would say a raid card go ?? slot 3 or slot 5?????