For audio, it features the Realtek 5.1 HD Nahimic Audio with ESS SABRE 9218 DAC and WIMA Audio Capacitors. Wi-Fi 6E (6GHz band) will be supported by Microsoft® Windows® 11. The availability will depend on the different regulation status of each country and region. It will be activated (for supported countries) through Windows® Update and software updates once available. AMD Ryzen series CPUs (Vermeer) support DDR4 4733+(OC) / 4666(OC) / 4600(OC) / 4533(OC) / 4466(OC) / 4400(OC) / 4333(OC) / 4266(OC) / 4200(OC) / 4133(OC) / 4000(OC) / 3866(OC) / 3800(OC) / 3733(OC) / 3600(OC) / 3466(OC) / 3200 / 2933 / 2667 / 2400 / 2133 ECC & non-ECC, un-buffered memory * I wish it had just one more M.2 slot... but I can live with that sacrifice. And I suppose I could buy an adapter card for the lower PCI slot. My graphics card won't mind running at x8. Yes, Thunderbolt does need external compliant devices. That's exactly why I recommended this board. Video workloads mentioned in the OP include possibility of working with Thunderbolt and USB4 devices. Such host port is hugely beneficial as it can be attached to TB hub and then several devices can be attached to hub or daisy chained. You can't underestimate benefits of Thunderbolt ecosystem for creative workflows. Plus, such TB port can also serve as VLAN 10 Gbps port for large file transfers over internal network, which is exactly what many creative do between PCs or PC and NAS devices.

Exactly. And I proposed two boards with more advanced video and data transfer ports to enhance his video rendering workflows. Chosen board will serve him well for several good years.It'll never happen of course. The reasons are obvious. Money, profits and margins. Motherboard makers want you to buy more expensive boards. Capitalism! Yay. Along the bottom edge of the board you'll spot several headers, including additional USB 2.0 ports, fan headers, front-panel audio, ARGB and RGB headers, two USB 2.0 ports, and four 4-pin fan headers. Also down here are a Clear CMOS jumper, a Dr. Debug LED, power and reset buttons, and, finally, the front-panel connectors' header cluster.

Benchmarking B650 Taichi Lite against its bigger brother, X670E Taichi, is instructive in evaluating whether there are manifest differences when using a gaming-centric AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D and GeForce RTX 4090 tied to DDR5-6000 memory. Benchmark that is true, but there are serious caveats. There are no magical additional lanes to serve both GPU and NVMe RAIDx4. You have only 16 lanes to play withB650E has super-fast PCIe 5.0 SSDs covered, literally, with the solitary slot on the upper-left portion of the board. Got to love that 12.4GB/s bandwidth. Conclusion Jan 20th 2023 PSA: Intel I226-V 2.5GbE on Raptor Lake Motherboards Has a Connection Drop Issue: No Fix Available (203)