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  • inighthawki - Friday, July 20, 2018 - link

    Ah yes, a PS/2 port. I see their 2018 models are cutting edge. Please include a nice parallel port as well for my printer.
  • stuffwhy - Friday, July 20, 2018 - link

    While it's use cases are very very rare nowadays, I can see much more potential for someone to have an old favorite keyboard than desperately have to use an old parallel port printer or peripheral. Heck, anything requiring a parallel port probably wouldn't even have driver support in Windows 10.
  • Gasaraki88 - Friday, July 20, 2018 - link

    This comment shows how much you know about technology and cutting performance. Most new gaming motherboard have a PS/2 port for the mice. PS/2 gaming mice perform better than USB. Please keep up with the times.
  • inighthawki - Friday, July 20, 2018 - link

    By a negligible amount, unless maybe you have 10 USB devices plugged in stressing the entire bus all at the same time. You're talking about an absolutely negligible difference in latency and processing time for a gaming rig.
  • GTVic - Friday, July 20, 2018 - link

    It's not negligible to ASRock if the consumer purchases the competitor's motherboard because ASRock's board didn't have this feature.
  • anon94582 - Sunday, July 22, 2018 - link

    And it cost negligible to add while provides added service to consumers who use PS/2 mouse/keyboard.
  • BoneHurtingJuice - Friday, July 20, 2018 - link

    In my experience, PS/2 keyboard/mouse combo ports are finicky at best. I couldn't get my programmable cash register keyboard to be detected at all on these ports.
  • Kraszmyl - Friday, July 20, 2018 - link

    The ps2 port is for gamers and their keyboards. They are technically better than USB ones.
  • DanNeely - Friday, July 20, 2018 - link

    A number of newer USB gaming keyboards will use a high end keyboard driver model for n-key rollover instead of the baseline USB-1 implementation that only supported 5 keys, taking away the mash keys like crazy advantage that PS2 used to have.
  • baka_toroi - Friday, July 20, 2018 - link

    >instead of the baseline USB-1 implementation that only supported 5 keys

    For fucks sake. I always thought it was a membrane keyboard thing, not a protocol-level thing.
  • JoeyJoJo123 - Friday, July 20, 2018 - link

    I see native PS/2 port as a plus. Don't use it? Don't buy it. There's plenty of boards out there that don't have it.

    I have (although I don't regularly use) an IBM Model M keyboard. PS/2 is the standard interface it uses. I'd much prefer to plug it into a native port rather than trying to use a USB adapter and having to deal with key rollover issues due to how usb polling works. The PS/2 bus is inherently interrupt based. As soon as a key is pressed, it's registered, so naturally it's NKRO.

    My daily driver keyboard is just a Filco Majestouch 2, just because of the slimmer bezel and brown switches have a lower noise threshold. But I do enjoy plugging the Model M in from time to time, such as trying it out for rhythm games that use keyboard input, etc.
  • Myrandex - Friday, July 20, 2018 - link

    Thank goodness, I still use my PS/2 port all the time, better implementations for sure than many USB variants
  • Flunk - Friday, July 20, 2018 - link

    It costs a few cents to add, so I'd say it's better than not having anything there. 4 USB ports is enough for anything I'd want to do with this board. I'd rather not pay for the Wi-Fi, but apparently that's a thing people want built in to their desktop boards?
  • Oxford Guy - Saturday, July 21, 2018 - link

    It supports the x86 architecture, too!
  • imaheadcase - Sunday, July 22, 2018 - link

    You do know that many commercial hardware devices still use PS/2 ports for latency purposes? Lots of specialized hardware requires it.
  • sonny73n - Sunday, July 22, 2018 - link

    @inighthawki

    Yours is the dumbest comment of the day or maybe you’re just trolling.

    My beloved mechanical keyboard has usb interface but I had it connected to the PS/2 port thru an adapter. Go figure!
  • empleat - Saturday, November 23, 2019 - link

    Haha actually PS/2 is better than usb, it has lower input lag, because it doesn't have to go around some stations and send data as they are available and doesn't wait until polling occurs. Also usb generates a lot of dpc latency, if you don't have it in msi-x mode, tho newer mobos, should support it. Didn't look, what has lower dpc latency, if ps/2, or usb tbh, because i can't use ps/2 unfortunately, mouse and keyboard i use doesn't support. But ps/2 should have still lower input lag... You actually should prefer ps/2, even some knowledgeable poster recently from linustechtips told me so.
  • PeachNCream - Friday, July 20, 2018 - link

    I don't get how you go from naming a product Taichi which is basically hinting at martial arts style to a motherboard festooned with cogs and gears. The name is significantly detached from the visual appearance to the point where the two are in conflict with one another and it all boils down to muddled branding nonsense.
  • Oxford Guy - Saturday, July 21, 2018 - link

    The metaphors are broken anyway, since they're computer motherboards. It's like Intel putting a skull on an SSD. Absurdity.
  • atragorn - Friday, July 20, 2018 - link

    On your home page you have "Zen in midrange" on the photo don't you think that is misleading ?
    When you say Zen most people probably think you mean AMD's new CPU lineup.
    At least I did at first.
  • LauRoman - Friday, July 20, 2018 - link

    Because, you know, the cpu architecture came before Chan buddhism.
  • atragorn - Saturday, July 21, 2018 - link

    Someone agreed with me they changed it. I enjoyed your sarcasm anyway have a nice day :)
  • timecop1818 - Friday, July 20, 2018 - link

    Why would anyone buy this RGB cancer instead of literally 50% cheaper Z370 PRO4 from same manufacturer? It doesn't even have the useless wifi, otherwise it's exactly same spec.
  • foomanfoo - Friday, July 20, 2018 - link

    timecop, what makes u so sure they only diff is wifi???

    https://hardwarepick.com/motherboards/asrock-z370-...
  • voicequal - Friday, July 20, 2018 - link

    Keep in mind that ASRock provides almost zero end-user support. They expect you to contact your "authorized distributor" for warranty claims, and their support form doesn't even provide a confirmation they've received your support request. Low price is nothing to brag about here - get what you pay for.
  • Oxford Guy - Saturday, July 21, 2018 - link

    Three "aggressives" on one page?
  • The_Assimilator - Monday, July 23, 2018 - link

    Oh for the love of... you could've at least added two more USB 3 ports on the IO panel, ASRock!
  • The_Assimilator - Monday, July 23, 2018 - link

    Actually, there's space for 4 more. Why manufacturers consistently skimp on a part that probably costs them a dollar, never ceases to amaze me.
  • TallBill - Monday, July 23, 2018 - link

    I am a banana
  • FrankSchwab - Tuesday, July 24, 2018 - link

    foomanfoo, what makes u so sure the comparo you linked is accurate?

    For example, it lists the Taichi as having 2 USB Type C ports, when the Board Features page of this review lists 1.
  • hapkiman - Wednesday, July 25, 2018 - link

    5.1GHz on a i7 8700k is great and all, but what were the temps? I run mine at 5.0GHz on all cores (1.30v) 24/7 and it never goes over the mid 50'sC under load or while gaming. Idling right now at 24-25C. And before you ask, NO I don't run that unnecessary dinosaur PRIME95. I'll know if my system is stable - when it crashes. And BTW, it hasn't crashed or BSODed ever- in the 6 months since I built it.
  • hapkiman - Wednesday, July 25, 2018 - link

    *Meant to say: "I'll know if my system is unstable..."

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