ASRock X870 Taichi Creator Review: A Taichi for Creatives

Tom's Hardware Verdict

ASRock’s X870 Taichi Creator is a good, sub-$320 AM5 motherboard. Its strong all-around performance and creator-focused features - like 10 GbE, ample slot spacing/dual PCIe 5.0 slots, and numerous USB ports - make it a top mid-range option, but it is pricey for X870.

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Grab this snappy gaming PC with Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 and 32GB of RAM right now for under $1,000 — 1080p-capable ABS rig also has 1TB of storage

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Newegg aren't dropping the ball when it comes to discounts right now. This retailing behemoth has slashed the price of yet another gaming PC, giving you the opportunity to score a powerful rig, one that's more than ready for 1080p gaming, for less than $1,000. You can pick

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Dev uses ePaper tablet as a secondary display to save his eyes — gives second life to old Onyx Boox Air 2 by mirroring laptop screen

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Developer Alireza Alavi reported strained eyes after 14 hours of reviewing software licenses, so he addressed the issue by using an ePaper tablet as a secondary display. While you can purchase a purpose-built ePaper monitor , it will cost an additional $199. So, Alavi instead used an old Onyx Boox Note Air 2 tablet he had lying around at

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TP-Link's five-port Ethernet switch is only $8.99 — Litewave 5-port is 50% off, lets you connect up to four devices to the internet

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If you only have one Ethernet jack for your gaming PC, console, NAS, and TV, the TP-Link Litewave 5-port is an excellent solution for your problem — and it’s now on sale for just $8.99 on Amazon. Having more devices than Ethernet ports on your router can be a problem,

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Corsair ships customer $35 decorative memory sticks instead of $1,000 worth of 96 GB of DDR5 memory — buyer accidentally receives dummy RAM in unlucky warranty claim

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With the memory crisis reaching its peak and expected to only worsen, even the slightest of mix-ups are exacerbated and feel almost absurd. That's what happened to an unlucky user on the r/pcmasterrace subreddit, who sent in their 96 GB kit of Corsair Vengeance DDR5 memory for an RMA, but received seemingly fake RAM in return that didn

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US smart home company accused of rebranding footage-leaking Chinese cameras — Nebraska AG to sue Resideo over selling banned security cameras

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It's a reasonably open industry secret that a great deal of home cameras, especially those from more affordable brands, are riddled with security holes and/or are suspect of leaking video to interested third parties like government agencies. Resideo is the latest smart home product company caught in the sights of U.S. law , more specifically by Nebraska Attorney General

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Gigabyte removes controversial leaking thermal gel from RTX 5070 Ti Windforce V2 — company opts for traditional thermal pads with updated graphics card

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Gigabyte has opted to no longer use its "server-grade" thermal gel on its new RTX 5070 Ti Windforce V2 graphics card. The discovery was made by Uniko Hardware on X, who compared the product pages of the old and new Windforce cards and found that the product page for the new 5070 Ti variant lacks any mention

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1,000 computers taken offline in Romanian water management authority hack — ransomware takes Bitlocker-encrypted systems down

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Cyberattacks on infrastructure seem to be becoming a part of daily life. The latest one hit the Romainian water management authorities , taking around 1,000 computers down, affecting 10 of the country's 11 regional offices with hostile data encryption (ransomware).

No criminal group has yet claimed the action, but the attackers left a message demanding

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Chinese fabs are reportedly upgrading older ASML DUV lithography chipmaking machines — secondary channels and independent engineers used to soup up Twinscan NXT series

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Chinese fabs are quietly extending the useful life and performance of older ASML deep ultraviolet lithography systems by upgrading key subsystems, as Beijing pushes to sustain advanced chip output under tightening U.S. and allied export controls, according to the Financial Times. The effort concerns installed immersion DUV tools , particularly ASML’s Twinscan NXT series. It’s understood that these activities

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Windows 11 rockets SSD performance to new heights with hacked native NVMe driver — up to 85% higher random workload performance in some tests

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Microsoft ’s introduction of a native performance-boosting NVMe driver for Windows Server 2025 has sparked a wave of excitement for the best SSDs . Resourceful users quickly discovered a method to unlock this powerful feature on standard Windows 11 systems. Early user benchmark results are in, and they reveal outstanding performance leaps—whether on traditional PCs or portable gaming

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