It feels like the PC gaming hardware scene just keeps getting weirder. I mean, I'm not exactly sure why a brand like ASRock would show off a bunch of Taichi 10th Anniversary components, including an RX 9070 XT graphics card, only to reveal that it's not planning on releasing them. What?
Don't get me wrong, I get the idea of making conceptual designs to celebrate events. However, revealing an ASRock Taichi 10th Anniversary line-up of gaming PC components that look like perfectly reasonable designs that aren't remotely unmakeable, only to then say that they are just "concept products created to celebrate the milestone," is frankly bananas.
The message suggests that the Taichi 10th Anniversary RX 9070 XT that showed up at Computex just a few weeks ago is the only version that will ever exist (via Videocardz). I don't know about you, but that feels a bit like being invited to a birthday party that was never happening in the first place, and I'm trying to work out why you'd unveil deliberate vapourware.
Just so you're aware of what you can't pick up, the Taichi 10th Anniversary lineup included the aforementioned graphics card, two motherboards, an AIO cooler with some sort of hologram display on the front, and a gaming monitor. Not that it matters, as none of the products exist, and I guess they're meant to be a "look at all the cool stuff we could maybe make" statement to honor the sub-brand that started in 2016.
Will ASRock eventually release the Taichi 10th Anniversary products made to celebrate the event? I mean, who knows. Perhaps there was supposed to be a launch, and it was cancelled at some point, or maybe people like looking at PC gear that will never exist? I'd understand if the designs were CES-level wild, but the components would pass for ordinary SKUs on the street (excluding that hologram AIO cooler; I'm not exactly sure how that'd work in hindsight.
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