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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 II

Network Stack can be enabled or disabled from the next menu:

Moving further, we’ve got the CSM Configuration menu, which does also hold some boot-specific options:

If attached, the NVMe drives will be shown in the next menu:

Same goes for PCIe SATA controllers:

From the USB Configuration menu, we can change some of the specific interface options:

The Chipset menu holds some sub-menus of its own:

The South Bridge sub-section does contain a secondary menu, but this one is left empty for an unknown reason:

The North Bridge area does come with another set of miscellaneous options:

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