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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.

The UEFI Interface Part I

The X370GTN board does ship with the RACING themed UEFI BIOS, which features a clean design; on the left side we can spot the widgets that report live system parameters such as voltages, speeds, fan RPMs, but also temperatures, while the bottom area is occupied by the main menus. In the Main menu, we can see some more details regarding the installed BIOS, total installed memory quantity, but we can also adjust the current date/time:

The Advanced menu contains plenty of sub-sections:

First, we do have the AMD CBS menu, that houses plenty of AM4-specific options:

The Trusted Computing menu comes with TPM-related options:

The Power Management options are available inside the ACPI Settings/WakeUp Event Control Menu:

From the SATA configuration menu, we can enable/disable the controller, but also choose the operating mode; here we will also see the list of connected devices:

Promontory Common Options are available from the next menu:

The Smart Fan Control area does allow the user to select fan operating modes for both headers:

From the Hardware Monitor menu, we can see the live SuperIO chip reports, but we can also set a shutdown temperature:

The CPU Configuration menu does allow the user to check out some processor-specific details, but also enable some functions such as SMT or SVM:

The PCI Subsystem Settings menu does include some miscellaneous options; here we will also find the PCI Express Settings menu:

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