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.

To start off my testing I went with 3DMark using both the Fire Strike and Time Spy tests to look at DX11 and DX12 performance. In fire strike, the X470-F Gaming came in at the exact same score as the MSI board and overall was in line with all boards tested. Time Spy was similar but the Asus board did get a slight bump in the overall score from a touch higher CPU score. Then sticking with the Futuremark now UL tests I tested with PCMark 10. I like this test because they test media consumption, gaming, productivity, and everything else in similar ways to how most people use their computers. Here the X470-F Gaming and the Aorus board were in line with each other with the MSI oddly behind. Passmark’s Performance Test 9 is also an overall benchmark but its tests are more focused using synthetic benchmarks for each aspect of a computer. All three results were close but the Asus X470-F did come in at the bottom of the three. Then for my last overall performance test, I tested out two games, in both the X470-F was spot on with the other two boards. The 1080Ti and 2700X together put up good numbers in both.

Now the only test that I normally see much of a swing is in the network performance. This is because it is one of the only areas that different boards and companies will use different NICs. In this case, Asus went with the Intel I211, a fairly standard NIC. Intel NICs overall are almost always solid in my experience and with the fastest results out of the three boards tests, there aren’t any big surprises there.

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Now I recently added a new test where I look at overall VRM temperatures. I do this using a Flir to test the temperatures of the VRM heatsink. In this case, Asus either did a good job with thermal dissipation or a bad job of transferring any heat at all to the heatsink with the lowest temperature of the three. My other photos help figure this out though. The temperature around the CPU is up at 134.6F where the Aorus with its upgraded cooling was over 10 degrees less. So it seems this board has good cooling, but the Aorus has better cooling, even though the heatsink is cooler in this case.

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I did look around at the rest of the board as well. You can see there is a chip between the bottom PCIe slot and the audio circuitry that is running a little warm. The chipset up under the video card ran cool as well as you can see.

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While not as performance specific, the lighting of the X470-F Gaming is also a big part of things like any of the Strix boards. The rear I/O cover has lighting built in the shape of a line and the ROG logo. They are lit with addressable LEDs to give that nice blue to green fade in the photo, it rotates through all of the Strix colors but you can set them to anything you want using the Aura software.

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VaporX replied the topic: #38525 26 May 2018 00:09
I am debating this board and the Prime X470 Pro, save a little money. The plan is to run a 2600X at stock settings, let the built in overclock do it job.

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