ASRock reveals MATX Threadripper and Skylake-X motherboards

ASRock has officially unveiled two new high-performance MATX motherboard designs, offering support for high core counts within a compact form factor while still maintaining most of the feature included in a fully fledged ATX or EATX motherboard.  

The first of these two motherboards is the TR4 X399M Taichi, the world's only MATX Threadripper motherboard, offering support for quad-channel memory, three M.2 storage devices and support for up to 16 Ryzen CPU cores. 

As the only MATX Threadripper motherboard in existence, the X399M Taichi offers AMD users the ability to push Threadripper into smaller form factors than ever before. This reduction in size allows users to create smaller workstations for the heavy workloads that AMD's TR4 platform is designed for, allowing such a high-end system to take up a lot less volume. The board's 11-phase power design will also ensure that even AMD's high-end 16-core offerings will be powered adequately, even when overclocked. It is also nice to see ASRock make use of some beefy VRM heatsinks, offering plenty of surface area for heat dissipation. 

Here we have three PCIe 16x lanes for use with up to three full-speed graphics cards, alongside eight SATA connections and a single U.2 connection. This motherboard also contains onboard WiFi and a large number of USB 3.0 and 3.1 ports.