ASRock Showcases Motherboards for Next-Gen Intel Platform at 2024 Computex Taipei

TapTechNews June 6th news, according to the reports of Japanese media GdM and PCWatch, ASRock has showcased a large number of motherboards for the next-generation Intel desktop platform ArrowLake-S at the 2024 Computex Taipei.

The next-generation flagship motherboard Taichi AQUA Taiji Water God of ASRock completely abandons the Type-A interface in the rear USB and adopts an aggressive all-Type-C design, providing a total of 10 Type-C interfaces, two of which are Thunderbolt ports.

This new Taichi AQUA motherboard adopts an extremely luxurious 28+1+2+1+1 with a total of 33-phase power supply design, equipped with 110 APS DrMOS and two PCIe Gen5 slots.

The new Taichi AQUA motherboard is equipped with two Gen5 M.2 slots and four Gen4 M.2 slots. The first Gen5 M.2 slot under the CPU is equipped with a water cooling module in cooperation with Alphacool.

In terms of network, this Taichi AQUA motherboard is equipped with a Marvell AQtion single-port 10-gigabit wired network card and a Realtek 5G single-port wired network card. The wireless part is the Intel Killer Wi-Fi 7 wireless network card.

In the audio part, this motherboard uses the Realtek ALC4082 sound card and the ESS SABRE9218 DAC chip.

ASRock also showcased the other four motherboards of the Taiji series, namely Taichi, Taichi Lite, Taichi OCF and the previously reported Taichi OCF CAMM2. The first two only have differences in appearance.

TapTechNews roughly sorts out the parameters of each motherboard as follows:

Power supply phases PCIe Gen5 expansion slot number M.2 solid-state drive position Wired network interface 1 Wired network interface 2 Wireless network card Rear Type-C interface Taichi(Lite) 25 1 11x Gen5+5x Gen4 Realtek 5Gbps Realtek 2.5Gbps Intel Wi-Fi7 2 Thunderbolt Taichi OCF(CAMM2) 27 2 None 2 Thunderbolt+1 regular

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