Asrock X99 Taichi offers pretty good value for money yes.
with its dual intel nic´s and bluetooth and wifi onboard.
However the added wifi module isnt the fastest,
arround 433mbits trough put according to Wendell´s review on it.
However thats of course still plenty.
Wenn i looked at this particular board I could not find manny negative points about it at its price point.
The only negative point i could find, is that with a 28 lane cpu,
you cannot use the second m.2 slot on the motherboard with a nvme ssd.
But other then that its a nice board.
Oh yeah before i forgot.
Detailed VRM information for the Asrock X99 Taichi.
Since that topic doesnt realy get covered in most Motherboard reviews.
Power delivery has not changed from their former X99 boards.
They still use the ISL6379 pwm which is a 6+1 true phase hybrid pwm.
They doubled the 6 phases to 12 using ISL6611A doublers.
Highside and low side fet in one package comming from Fairchild semicon FDMS3668 if i´m not mistaking,
Nichcon capacitors and 60A inductors.
Memory VR´s.
Using the same ISL6379 pwm´s aswell.
One on the left side and one on the right side of the motherboard.
2 phases of each pwm is used to control each set of 4 dimm slots.
Powered by the same Fairchild fets.
wendell ´s review.
Eh they have been lacking lately
i think that Asus with the X99 ROG Strix line added a very nice affordable ROG board to the X99 lineup of boards.
For its price point i personaly realy like it.
The only thing i would had love to see, was the Alpine ridge chip for Thunderbolt support,
like the Gigabyte X99 Ultra Gaming and Gigabyte X99 Phoenix Sli at similar price points do come with.
But other then that, i realy like the board.
3x edited, gosh, maybe the wodka redbull was to stongly mixed.... :s
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Is that wodka kicking your ass lol?
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Ended up with the ASRock Taichi if anyone wanted a resolution to this!
Just waiting on the Samsung 960s to come out and the build will be on.
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Good Choice