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BIOSTAR RACING X370GTN AM4 Motherboard Review

Motherboards/AMD AM4 by stefan @ 2017-08-19

With the X370GTN, BIOSTAR has succeeded to offer plenty of goodies, in a compact ITX format; due to a smaller VRM, the manufacturer does recommend CPUs with a maximum TDP of 95W, but if we do use it with a 65W SKU, we do also have some overclocking headroom. In our tests with the Ryzen 3 1300X, we have succeeded to achieve the same results as with the high-end Crosshair Hero VI from ASUS, by just setting up the multiplier and the voltage inside the UEFI interface, which is really easy to use.

Test Setup and Extra Info

Before actually starting the testing procedure, we made sure that the board was flashed with the latest available UEFI version; we went ahead and updated to the X37AK623 version from the BIOSTAR website:

The system did incorporate a Ryzen 7 1300X quad-core CPU, a GEIL PC4 25600 3200MHz CL16 8GBx2 Samsung B-die based kit running at 2133Mhz (15-15-15-36 timings), one KFA2 GTX 1060 OC 6GB video card, a Cooler Master 850 PSU but also an OCZ Vector 150 240GB SSD for storage purposes/boot. During testing, the system was running on a fresh Windows 10 Creators Edition installation, while all hardware was mounted inside a Cooler Master ATCS 840 Tower case.

With the help of the AIDA64 system reporting/benchmarking utility, we have extracted some more information regarding the system:

Motherboard

IMC

Chipset

Southbridge

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