ASRock's X370 Taichi motherboard for Ryzen is available for $156 after rebate
A high-end foundation for Ryzen.
If you are looking to build a new PC around one of AMD's Ryzen processors, you can score a feature-rich AM4 motherboard at a discount. ASRock's X370 Taichi is on sale for $185 at both Amazon and Newegg, with the latter sweetening the pot with a $30 mail-in-rebate (and adding a buck for shipping).
The X370 Taichi offers a robust set of features, including support for up to 64GB of DDR4-3200+ (OC) memory, two reinforced PCIe 3.0 x16 slots plus a non-reinforced PCIe 2.0 x16 slot, two PCIe 2.0 x1 slots, 10 SATA 6Gbps connectors, two M.2 sockets, onboard 802.11ac Wi-Fi, and a bunch of other goodies.
ASRock went with high-end components on the the X370 Taichi to help with stability and overclocking performance. To that end, it has a 16 power phase design for smooth power delivery, along with premium chokes and capacitors.
One thing to note is this mobo bears a cancer warning born out of California's Prop 65 vote, which you can read about here. In this case, the warning notes that "products with exposed solder may contain lead."
For those interested, you can buy this motherboard here.
Some online stores give us a small cut if you buy something through one of our links. Read our affiliate policy for more info.
The biggest gaming news, reviews and hardware deals
Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.
Paul has been playing PC games and raking his knuckles on computer hardware since the Commodore 64. He does not have any tattoos, but thinks it would be cool to get one that reads LOAD"*",8,1. In his off time, he rides motorcycles and wrestles alligators (only one of those is true).