Installation
During our installation, we used an vertical open chassis along with a Cooler Master MasterLiquid PL240 Flux AIO cooler fitted with Thermaltake Riing Quad 12 fans. We also decided to use a PCIE 4.0 riser cable so that we can mount the graphics card vertically. We didn’t encounter any issues and very thing fitted and slotted in nicely.
BIOS
The BIOS on the ASRock Z690 Taichi is really easy to use. The 1st page you’ll see the default “Easy Mode” where you can monitor all the system status on this page. During our tests, we left everything on AUTO/Default, however I did enable XMP 3.0 profiles for the memory supporting DDR5-6000 ram.
The advanced tab allows users to configure settings for CPU, chipset, storage and NVMe, as well as onboard devices such as Thunderbolt, USB, TPM and more. If you select “Advanced Mode”, you’ll then see all the other options available for tweaking your processor, memory and more. Voltages for memory and processor can also be adjusted here .
The Z690 chipset allows both memory overclocking (BCLK) and memory overclocking. And the BIOS allows you to set the CPU P-Core and E-Core ratios, as well as Vcore voltages too.
