Okay, so picture this: I’m wandering around this tech expo, half-distracted by some random booth still offering free coffee (seriously, who even drinks it at 2 PM?) and then bam—ASRock’s showing off their future goodies. Honestly, I wasn’t even supposed to be there, but hey, free swag, right?
ASRock’s cooking up this fancy “Taichi White” thingamajig. Yeah, the Radeon RX 9070 XT, which already sounds like a magic spell or something. So they’re bunking it out with a 3.1 GHz clock. Pretty wild if you ask me. They already had a white model—something called Steel Legend—yet they’re upping their game big time.
I got sidetracked by some shiny cooling fans. Three of them—huge, 100mm monsters with rings. Looked like oversized striped donuts, I kid you not. Apparently, it’s their Taichi 3x cooling something-or-other. Keeping it chill with fancy phase-change thermal widgets, or whatever. Oh, and it lights up. Because why not, LEDs make everything cooler, right? And you can tweak them with this Polychrome Sync thing. Dual BIOS? Sure. An LCD screen on it? Okay, now they’re just showing off.
Somewhere amidst my wandering, I stumbled upon their Radeon AI PRO R9700 Creator thing. Thirty-two freaking gigs with the same Navi 48 core, maxing out at 2920 MHz. Sounds like a beast. They’ve given it this blower-fan look, metal casing, and a heatsink with a heatpipe so snug it would make my old radiator self-conscious. Honeywell PTM7950 something covers it—all packed in two slots. Compact but punchy, I’d say.
Then, just when I thought I’d seen it all—the Radeon RX 9060 XT models pop up. Steel Legend OC with three fans, Challenger OC with two. Clock speeds soaring to 3290 MHz. They’ve only got a single 8-pin connector but keep it near the $299 range. Affordable-ish? Maybe.
Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah, I’m off to get one of those weirdly addictive expo donuts. Catch y’all later.
