pretty good deal, still a very capable/reliable motherboard and will probably be more than adequate for zen2 (maybe)
Asrock X370-Taichi AM4 ATX Motherboard $149 + Delivery (Was $299) @ Umart
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no, however if you take it to your local hardware store they will update the bios for you
Umart will do a bios update for you.
don't buy this
I bought one on release and its a (profanity).
The bios updates are irregular, and always create more problems than they solve.
You will need to be pretty particular about your ram or you won't have stable boots and the speed of your computer is pretty dependant on ram for ryzen cpu's. This is true of other motherboards but is exacerbated by the terrible bios updates for the taichi.
here's a thread about some of the bios issues, a couple comments down there is a summary. It's a bit overclocking focused but you'll run into some of the issues even if you are leaving it standard.
http://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=9371&title=psa-s…
I bought this for Zen 2 compatibility but probably won't be able to update the bios to a version that will support it without running into issues, I'm currently on 3.1 or 3.2 I belive due to stability issues going any higher. I still have a cold boot issue, where 1/10 times it won't POST, just needs a restart but it's tedious.
What would you recommend then?
I'd definitely go an x470, most of the x370 boards have some issues, the taichi is probaby the worst of the bunch due to ASRock's poor managment of bios updates. Probably the asus if you want to overclock, the gigabyte was good, but there seems to be quite a high failure rate around warranty time coming out.
Looks like x470 is out of budget. I'll look around
@jmcc: I can go with B450 but I would like to have a system with a gaming card and a workstation graphic card.
Can't have that with B450.I am not in a hurry so I'll wait for a deal on an X470 motherboard
@Sopzo: yeah I'd say that's the best bet.
What are you going to run?
I tried to run a gtx 680 + quadro back in the day but could never get it to work, sold the quadro in the end.@jmcc: You mean the software or GPU?
Software would be Solidworks at the start.
GPU I don't know. I don't know much about workstation GPUs@Sopzo: I meant GPU, yeah you'll have to run a either a RX Vega and a Quadro or a Geforce and a radeon pro WX. Different types from the same brand don't really work.
I run solidworks on a geforce, runs fine, realview is terrible anyway. I have a p5000 at work, it can be smoother on big assemblies but for parts I don't notice a difference.
That AB350-K4 is a pretty good deal too.
Does it support the 2nd Gen without any BIOS updates?