ASRock B550 Taichi Review: Blurring the Lines Between X570 and B550

Premium looks and features at an X570 price

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Software

On the software side, ASRock includes a few utilities that cover overclocking and monitoring (A-Tuning), audio (Nahimic 3), software for updating drivers and downloading applications (App Shop), and of course RGB control (Polychrome RGB). While this isn’t the most software we’ve seen, what is here worked well and covers all the bases for most people.

Joe Shields
Joe Shields
Staff Writer, Components

Joe Shields is a staff writer at Tom’s Hardware. He reviews motherboards and PC components.

3 Comments Comment from the forums
  • Makaveli
    At this price point its better to just go X570.

    These B550 boards should be $200 and lower not higher!
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  • tiggers97
    Makaveli said:
    At this price point its better to just go X570.

    These B550 boards should be $200 and lower not higher!
    Was just going to say the same thing. Might as well spend the same money on the X570 Tai Chi. I didn't really see much of anything to tip the scales in the B550s favor at this price point; newer hardware, no chipset fan, maybe better VRM over already pretty good VRM's.
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  • hypocrisyforever
    tiggers97 said:
    Was just going to say the same thing. Might as well spend the same money on the X570 Tai Chi. I didn't really see much of anything to tip the scales in the B550s favor at this price point; newer hardware, no chipset fan, maybe better VRM over already pretty good VRM's.

    I'm of the exact same mindset. I'm now in the market for a good board for an 3900x and had settled on the X570 Tai Chi since it seemed a good value at $300. Of course, now the whole MOBO market is wiped out stock-wise from COVID and the tariffs. Somehow the B550 is priced at the same $300, but is the board that is in stock. So the B550 with less features is priced the same as the X570 with more features, but only the lower-grade one is in stock. Go figure.
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