I did a all white Corsair 5000x qL build with the ASrock 7900 xtx Tiachi. I keep it covered with the box I get with my order of paper towels when not in use. I only turn it on when I'm using it. It helps keep it in perfect white condition. I also wipe it down with a moist paper towel regularly to get the dust and dirt build up off. It's amazing how much dust builds up in such a short period of time. There was a 3 month period where I wasn't really paying attention and I could literally see the difference in color where the fans suck the air thru. Took all the parts off and washed them off. Back to shiny white.
retro brite time.. go to your local hair salon supply store to get the salon care professional 40 volume creme stabilized formula .. use a brush to cover the plastic, cover that with saran wrap and put under a light over night. there are some great videos covering this.
The ageing of white plastics isn't that big of a deal as it once was. the inherent "brownish" colours that develop over time in expecially 60s to 90s plastics, was in most cases caused by flame-retardants (bromine-based variants of some sorts are the most well known ones here), that has been used alot in this period. as far as i know, bromine has been completely abbandoned by the early 2000s as flame-retardant in plastics. reverting this process (for a limited time unfortunately) using UV-Light and hydrogen peroxide is what people call "retrobrighting". However, I am pretty confident, that today's white plastic are much less prone to those discoloration caused by aging. This doesn't mean, that plastic doesn't age at all, they of course do, but most likely the much bigger impact would be, that plastics will get more brittle over time to a certain extend, caused by the pastic-softeners diffusing out of the material (however, this affects all colors, but white usually has less softeners to begin with, because the softeners cause some discoloration on their own).
nah man. it'll continue to be a thing forever. my NZXT phantom full tower is white on the metal parts, beige where it should be white on the plastic parts. and it's uneven too. I tried to shield it from the sun as much as possible but a 100% indirect light did all this damage. so if I ever do white again I want full metal.
Everything white turns yellow over time. It's not just UV, it's the moisture in the air, it's the oils on your hands....if you smoke, forget it, you're done lol
At least it’s got 3-8 pin connectors. It’s strange how some XTX’s only have 2- 8 pin connectors. Also, really loving the fractal torrent, Huge Air Flow Case
Why is it weird? Powercolor Hellhound has only 2 - 8 pins and it boosts 2800 mhz out of the box, thats almost more than most other cards and it also overclocks to 3000/3100 mhz. It appears u dont need 3 - 8 pins at all when the coolor end desing is good.
I've had the same case for almost a decade now. wow time flies. bought the fractal define R5 back in 2014, and havent seen a reason to upgrade yet. nice build!
Love this case, especially that you can invert it! Then changing the airflow for top and read intake and for exhaust with a rad(oush/pull).. works flawlessly :D
I'm building an all white Power Bomb Pc...its gonna seat so well in my gaming environment. Pair with the white 7900xtx Taichi and the ASRock X670E and THE 7800x3D, this Beast gonna Detonate.
I prefer white computers over black or other colors. My current systems are two X99 systems both in white NZXT H440 Cases, a 12th Gen system in a white Raijintek Case, and an AMD R9-5950X, ASUS ROG X570, 128GB DDR4, ASUS TUF Gaming RTX-3080 in a Lian Li Lancool II RGB Mesh White. I wish more motherboards were available in white, but I don't mind the black and white mix. And my latest system that I am building right now is an Intel Xeon W2495X, ASUS Pro W790 ACE, 512GB DDR5, ASUS ROG STRIX RTX-3090 White in a white Corsair 5000D Airflow Case.
So you said some interesting things in your video that touched on what I am doing in my Fractal Torrent (non white) with my Powercolor 7900XTX Red Devil, and my monitor which has a 60Hz refresh rate and Free Sync. I run vsync and it means the GPU is almost never stressed and allows it to run silent as heck and cool. The PC is maybe 3 feet away from me, and silent as I type this with your video playing, and two streams streaming in other windows. It's like a weird hack for super smooth gameplay.
Is it just my eyes or is there an autofocus issue with the camera Wendell used to shoot this video? I'm noticing intermediate refocusing which causes out of focus to occur.
I sold my NZXT Phantom case (white) after having it for maybe 6-7 years, and it hadn't yellowed. I hope it's still out there in service somewhere, and still white.
Hi Wendell, has there been much progress on PCI reset and the AMD 7000 series? I'm looking to upgrade my RTX 2080 Super and, based on what you said about the issues I have been pushing the purchase back (also looking at a 7900 XT[X]). I'm looking at a running Looking Glass for the few games (and peripherals) that won't run under wine/proton. Your insights as to the current driver state would be very much appreciated.
I've got an old GTX 960 for the host, 6800XT I'd pass through. CPU is a 5900X but the motherboard is a Gigabyte B450 - if something is going to stop me it'd be the motherboard right? Can I put the 960 in the bottom full length 4x slot?
nice combo with the taichi carrara mobo and 7900 card, however I kept getting distracted by the top pci-e solid state drive cover being so far out of alignment.
Does it have anti-tamper stickers? I am planning a watercooled build, and I am looking for a 7900 XTX that I can use while still being able to RMA it if it dies.
I've been wondering if the three vertical slots in the Phantex Evolv X case give this card enough space to breathe. While you didn't answer that specific of a question here thanks for covering this. I wasn't aware the Taichi had a white edition.
Car makers use white paint on grey plastic that continues to match the painted metal next to it for decades of sun exposure meanwhile case makers keep trying to make solid white plastic that won't eventually yellow which will never happen unless they use uPVC.
love the build and gpu, bequiet Ive already planned to be my next case with a 5.25 slot. However I dont think raytracing makes quake2 look better, it just highlights how ugly graphics were compared to now lol. Also raytracing in modern games I dont think is worth it at all when rasterization looks as good as it does on its own.
My 7900XTX had no problem with 1440 RT Ultra in Cyberpunk. It's a Pulse edition. The benchmark is on my channel. I really don't want that channel blowing up. Have no desire to make that a part time job but yea, I am 100% convinced this Taichi edition would also shred it. Overdrive? No, not happening but a 4090 needs software to get over 60 with 4K overdrive. Another example would be Black Desert Online, 4K what they call 'trailer mode'. I can't get 4K 60 fps on that. In terms of the Taichi price. If you are determined to have an all white build, this is the high altitude card to run in an all white build. If white isn't a focus point, get a pulse or a Phantom. It's the quality I respect most in AsRock. They don't play favorites. 7600 Challenger right up to 7900XTX Taichi White.
Anybody else remember the good old days, when folks could smoke in the office? Everything required billowing clouds of smoke back then. Incoming phone call? Fire one up! White plastic didn't age in an office back then and neither did any other color of plastic, nor metal, nor ceiling tiles. In time, everything just became coated varying shades of earthy yellows, oranges and browns.
ASRock customer service did me dirty, I would recommend to stay away from their products. I bought an RX6800 in early 2021 and the card started having issues after less than a year in a well ventilated case. Took me months to figure out my increasing problems were being caused by the GPU. After painstakingly finding their well hidden support tickets, I had to pay 80$ of my own money to return the card to them, only for them to refuse the warranty over a loose sticker that was placed precariously close to the PCIE lane and mobo. It was already hanging by a thread. After pushing for more help they approved an exchange and mistakenly sent me a RX6800XT which was obviously refurbished. They asked me to pay 60$ difference because this was a mistake and this card was more valuable.... they asked me to pay more money for a refurbished card hoping I wouldn't notice. When I called out their CS agent for this terribly shady proposal, they never replied. Guess what? Refurbished card did exactly what I assumed a refurbished card would do, it died in 3 months. I am out 1400$(Can) with nothing to show for it but a big paper weight. ASRock can go F**k themselves.
I mean, I've got a white/black case from 2011 (Corsair Carbide 500R) and it's really not very noticeable that the plastics are a slightly different shade than the metal, after all these years. YMMV
RIP the days of color matching to the color of Tar and Nicotine.
But those are the colours of serious businesses. Still are. 🤣
The Canadian fires will give it a nice grey hue.
Hell yeah. White Pöwer!
The nvme not being locked in at the sound comparison part will give me sleepless nights for sure.
I did a all white Corsair 5000x qL build with the ASrock 7900 xtx Tiachi. I keep it covered with the box I get with my order of paper towels when not in use.
I only turn it on when I'm using it. It helps keep it in perfect white condition. I also wipe it down with a moist paper towel regularly to get the dust and dirt build up off.
It's amazing how much dust builds up in such a short period of time. There was a 3 month period where I wasn't really paying attention and I could literally see the difference in color where the fans suck the air thru.
Took all the parts off and washed them off. Back to shiny white.
Faded mismatched white panels gives it good retro star wars vibes as it ages.
This one and the Sapphire Nitro+ are probably the best XTX out there.
Can confirm, the nitro+ is a very, very premium product
*laughs in liquid devil*
@@TheHighborn Hey we're talking about gpus for mere mortals here!
@@rollerr fair enough. Dude I was so happy when I got mine. I was waiting for the release for a long time
@@TheHighborn How high have you seen the clocks go? I got mine to 3.2ghz on the valley benchmark, try it out
retro brite time.. go to your local hair salon supply store to get the salon care professional 40 volume creme stabilized formula .. use a brush to cover the plastic, cover that with saran wrap and put under a light over night. there are some great videos covering this.
Flourescent lighting and time are the tried and true test of a product holding its color. Great video btw!😊
The ageing of white plastics isn't that big of a deal as it once was. the inherent "brownish" colours that develop over time in expecially 60s to 90s plastics, was in most cases caused by flame-retardants (bromine-based variants of some sorts are the most well known ones here), that has been used alot in this period. as far as i know, bromine has been completely abbandoned by the early 2000s as flame-retardant in plastics. reverting this process (for a limited time unfortunately) using UV-Light and hydrogen peroxide is what people call "retrobrighting". However, I am pretty confident, that today's white plastic are much less prone to those discoloration caused by aging. This doesn't mean, that plastic doesn't age at all, they of course do, but most likely the much bigger impact would be, that plastics will get more brittle over time to a certain extend, caused by the pastic-softeners diffusing out of the material (however, this affects all colors, but white usually has less softeners to begin with, because the softeners cause some discoloration on their own).
nah man. it'll continue to be a thing forever. my NZXT phantom full tower is white on the metal parts, beige where it should be white on the plastic parts. and it's uneven too. I tried to shield it from the sun as much as possible but a 100% indirect light did all this damage. so if I ever do white again I want full metal.
if you case is near the windows then yes uv will affect the white case if not no @@tatsuuuuuu
Everything white turns yellow over time. It's not just UV, it's the moisture in the air, it's the oils on your hands....if you smoke, forget it, you're done lol
I have a white Corsair 500R from 2011 with a white plastic front and powered coated sides it still looks brand new, hasn't yellowed at all.
At least it’s got 3-8 pin connectors. It’s strange how some XTX’s only have 2- 8 pin connectors. Also, really loving the fractal torrent, Huge Air Flow Case
Why is it weird? Powercolor Hellhound has only 2 - 8 pins and it boosts 2800 mhz out of the box, thats almost more than most other cards and it also overclocks to 3000/3100 mhz. It appears u dont need 3 - 8 pins at all when the coolor end desing is good.
If it wasn’t actually needed, dont you think they would have used it?
You don't really understand how much power a single 8 pin provides do you lol
@@qwerty-dm8gr I had a corsair model that said it could do 300 watts from one ☝️ 8 pin, but i never actually took a meter to it
I've had the same case for almost a decade now. wow time flies. bought the fractal define R5 back in 2014, and havent seen a reason to upgrade yet. nice build!
Same here. There’s not a lot I can’t do with the R5
Just got mine can't wait for the rest of the new build parts
When I remember my first case lived 10 years in my room, those white plastics in sunny rooms can age quickly
Love this case, especially that you can invert it! Then changing the airflow for top and read intake and for exhaust with a rad(oush/pull).. works flawlessly :D
I'm building an all white Power Bomb Pc...its gonna seat so well in my gaming environment. Pair with the white 7900xtx Taichi and the ASRock X670E and THE 7800x3D, this Beast gonna Detonate.
I prefer white computers over black or other colors. My current systems are two X99 systems both in white NZXT H440 Cases, a 12th Gen system in a white Raijintek Case, and an AMD R9-5950X, ASUS ROG X570, 128GB DDR4, ASUS TUF Gaming RTX-3080 in a Lian Li Lancool II RGB Mesh White. I wish more motherboards were available in white, but I don't mind the black and white mix.
And my latest system that I am building right now is an Intel Xeon W2495X, ASUS Pro W790 ACE, 512GB DDR5, ASUS ROG STRIX RTX-3090 White in a white Corsair 5000D Airflow Case.
Racist 😂
@@jonas000111 - Since my computers all have black motherboards, and Noctua brown coolers, that would make them all mixed color... :)
@@daveg4417 sane I rock Noctua fans in a black Corsair 5000D. Are you my dad? 😅
@@jonas000111 - That depends, how hot is your mom.... :)
0:06
"Off-color"
I get it, lmao.
Yo what's going on with the loose nvme at 12:17? Makes me kinda anxious
Wew this Tachi edition design 👌
white build themed
So you said some interesting things in your video that touched on what I am doing in my Fractal Torrent (non white) with my Powercolor 7900XTX Red Devil, and my monitor which has a 60Hz refresh rate and Free Sync. I run vsync and it means the GPU is almost never stressed and allows it to run silent as heck and cool. The PC is maybe 3 feet away from me, and silent as I type this with your video playing, and two streams streaming in other windows. It's like a weird hack for super smooth gameplay.
I noticed you didn't use the mount support. Any reason why not?
the card didnt come with a peel on the backplate right? let alone anywhere, just asking since i ordered one
I'll stick to my black ASRock RX 7900 XTX Phantom Gaming OC thank you very much. 😁
Is it just my eyes or is there an autofocus issue with the camera Wendell used to shoot this video? I'm noticing intermediate refocusing which causes out of focus to occur.
I sold my NZXT Phantom case (white) after having it for maybe 6-7 years, and it hadn't yellowed. I hope it's still out there in service somewhere, and still white.
Great looking card indeed!
Can i using this Gpu with PSU only 850w? please someone answer me brother...
Wonder if lancool 3 white will age well. 😮
Hi Wendell, has there been much progress on PCI reset and the AMD 7000 series? I'm looking to upgrade my RTX 2080 Super and, based on what you said about the issues I have been pushing the purchase back (also looking at a 7900 XT[X]). I'm looking at a running Looking Glass for the few games (and peripherals) that won't run under wine/proton. Your insights as to the current driver state would be very much appreciated.
Working on a vid on that now. It works on the ASRock x670e taichi
@@Level1Techs Thanks for the answer, looking forward to that being published.
I've got an old GTX 960 for the host, 6800XT I'd pass through. CPU is a 5900X but the motherboard is a Gigabyte B450 - if something is going to stop me it'd be the motherboard right? Can I put the 960 in the bottom full length 4x slot?
why isnt this gpu in amazon? ive only seen PowerColor hellhound spectral that's white
nice vid, wish you would have shown some more comparisons to others cards and added warzone 2 resurgence to the graphs
Been eyeing the Vapor-X of Sapphire but every month something comes up.. do you think that goes up against the Taichi?
have someone notice the m.2 not mounted? 12:23 😂
The white on the plastic is different because color matching is hard not because of aging UV will affect white over time.
nice combo with the taichi carrara mobo and 7900 card, however I kept getting distracted by the top pci-e solid state drive cover being so far out of alignment.
Heh funny to watch this as i myself have normal black 7900 XTX Taichi in normal black mesh BQ 802 Silent Base build 😄
Does it have anti-tamper stickers? I am planning a watercooled build, and I am looking for a 7900 XTX that I can use while still being able to RMA it if it dies.
2:45 that keyboard and original Mac were not white even when new.
beautiful gpu
Is it just me or did level 1 tech sell their soul to ASRock?
My all white PC is now beige after just 7 years. Meanwhile my all black laptop from 2012 still look fresh.
I have no idea what "off-collar jokes" you could make with that... I can only think of a white-collar joke. Ba~dum~tish~! 😎
I've been wondering if the three vertical slots in the Phantex Evolv X case give this card enough space to breathe. While you didn't answer that specific of a question here thanks for covering this. I wasn't aware the Taichi had a white edition.
Solidigm NVME is a tech best secret right now, shhh!!!
Looks clean. Also, doesn't white plastic age and change color due to type of plastic like ABS if it would be PBT it wouldn't change color?
It does. It's inevitable, heat is the factor more than humidity, unless it's painted metal it will get the yellow tint
WHITE CASE! WHITE CASE!
White kg⋅m^2⋅s^−3?
Nice card!
Love ASRock, wish they would step up their reliability though.
Not 2 Years but 5 Years :)
9:39 😮 Daisychain? Seriously?
Black case, black motherboard with white panels, white GPU and RAM, white cables, white fans.... Stormtrooper scheme. This is the way.
They use a 1920 circuit for their VRM and you talk about the color.
IDK IWANT ITTTT
If Asrock Taichi uses same power targets as reference, why the require 1000w psu when reference only requires 800w?
The rage mode overclock like I said in the vid
@@Level1Techs rage mode is available on all of them not just the taichi though.
Good thing my Rog Helios is made of a silver metal frame.
GG
Still waiting for 70's beige to make a comeback...
🤣
Car makers use white paint on grey plastic that continues to match the painted metal next to it for decades of sun exposure meanwhile case makers keep trying to make solid white plastic that won't eventually yellow which will never happen unless they use uPVC.
love the build and gpu, bequiet Ive already planned to be my next case with a 5.25 slot. However I dont think raytracing makes quake2 look better, it just highlights how ugly graphics were compared to now lol. Also raytracing in modern games I dont think is worth it at all when rasterization looks as good as it does on its own.
My 7900XTX had no problem with 1440 RT Ultra in Cyberpunk. It's a Pulse edition. The benchmark is on my channel. I really don't want that channel blowing up. Have no desire to make that a part time job but yea, I am 100% convinced this Taichi edition would also shred it. Overdrive? No, not happening but a 4090 needs software to get over 60 with 4K overdrive. Another example would be Black Desert Online, 4K what they call 'trailer mode'. I can't get 4K 60 fps on that. In terms of the Taichi price. If you are determined to have an all white build, this is the high altitude card to run in an all white build. If white isn't a focus point, get a pulse or a Phantom.
It's the quality I respect most in AsRock. They don't play favorites. 7600 Challenger right up to 7900XTX Taichi White.
I do like my white's tasteful Wendell...LOL
I have a Love and Hate relationship with this card. I love how it looks but i hate it's availability and price.
Anybody else remember the good old days, when folks could smoke in the office? Everything required billowing clouds of smoke back then. Incoming phone call? Fire one up! White plastic didn't age in an office back then and neither did any other color of plastic, nor metal, nor ceiling tiles. In time, everything just became coated varying shades of earthy yellows, oranges and browns.
If I were a rich man
Ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum
4TB instead 2TB amd 1TB for SSDs
one day I to shall finally have the cohunes to sell one of my kidneys 😋
Some say 80-85C isn't great for large dies because of thermal expansion. It might damage the solder balls over time.
darkflash allmesh is all metal
I chose the nzxt h7 flow for full metal
Like the color. Hate the brand. Had 3 dead GPUs😢 from asrock
Second!
I honestly can't tell if the first comment is from a real person or not... ~Editor Autumn
Asrock use thinner matterials than their ASUS bigger Brother
I really don't like the amount of plastic on that case. I would have to paint it and air brush it. As white plastics are so tacky 90's
Anybody going to talk about AMD GPU changes coming that will allow CUDA acceleration on Radeon 7000 GPU's
😂😂😂 what. ROCM will only be available for Pro AMD GPUs not consumer and Only on Linux
ASRock customer service did me dirty, I would recommend to stay away from their products. I bought an RX6800 in early 2021 and the card started having issues after less than a year in a well ventilated case. Took me months to figure out my increasing problems were being caused by the GPU. After painstakingly finding their well hidden support tickets, I had to pay 80$ of my own money to return the card to them, only for them to refuse the warranty over a loose sticker that was placed precariously close to the PCIE lane and mobo. It was already hanging by a thread. After pushing for more help they approved an exchange and mistakenly sent me a RX6800XT which was obviously refurbished. They asked me to pay 60$ difference because this was a mistake and this card was more valuable.... they asked me to pay more money for a refurbished card hoping I wouldn't notice. When I called out their CS agent for this terribly shady proposal, they never replied. Guess what? Refurbished card did exactly what I assumed a refurbished card would do, it died in 3 months. I am out 1400$(Can) with nothing to show for it but a big paper weight. ASRock can go F**k themselves.
White builds age like white briefs 🩲. You had best be very particular about things to keep the aesthetic.
So what you are saying is make sure to use Noctua browns.
@@pronstorestiffiFutureproof.
not really. just don't be a slob and smoke next to ur pc. ive had an all white build for years and hasn't gone yellow at all yet.
@@megadeth8592 Yes really. Aside from OP being a joke, not smoking around it would fall under being particular, no?
I mean, I've got a white/black case from 2011 (Corsair Carbide 500R) and it's really not very noticeable that the plastics are a slightly different shade than the metal, after all these years. YMMV