Performance

For performance testing, I’ve mentioned it a lot in the past but it’s always good to post up a reminder. The performance between different motherboards really isn’t big unless you have one company overclocking or underclocking the CPU. So most of the testing below is just to keep everyone on the up and up and make sure there aren’t any issues. First though, here are our CPUz readouts so that everyone can see our exact configuration and BIOS revision.

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So normally I would have numbers to compare the X370-I with and I did originally. I decided in the middle of my testing though that I didn’t want to test this board with the RX480 that I did all of our original AM4 testing with. It was a little too out of date and didn’t really fit with the 1800X that I was testing with so I pulled It out and retested with the GTX 1080Ti. A high-end GPU to go with a high-end CPU and motherboard combination. The X370-I isn’t like the B350 boards, Asus has all of the overclocking options available in the BIOS so I expect people looking to go this direction might be looking to build something a little crazy.

Anyhow as far as performance went, the X370-I paired with the 1800X and the 1080Ti is a potent combination. Performance in a modern game like Ghost Recon: Wildlands being up at 120 FPS shows that and the 3DMark and PCMark scores confirm it. But we know the CPU and GPU play a big role in both of those. So how did the board do in the network test? I was a little concerned when I figured out that Asus went with Realtek for the wireless card. They normally stick with Intel. Well the Intel NIC did well as expected. Wireless performance was about on par as well, but being in a new office it remains to be seen if this number (that would top the charts in our old office) is low or high compared to other wireless configurations.  I did note in our earlier talk about the antenna that it does have a hard time staying up and doesn’t have any way to mount up away from your desk, so that will also play a role in how well the wireless performance is for some people.

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