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BIOSTAR Racing X470GT8 AM4 Motherboard Review

Motherboards/AMD AM4 by stefan @ 2018-08-13

With the Racing X470GT8, BIOSTAR has built a solid mainstream platform for the AMD Ryzen 2000 series and packs quite a bit of features. The UEFI interface is easy to navigate and within it we can fine-tune the system performance or adapt the settings depending on the installed hardware. Thanks to the total of four memory slots, we can install up to 64GB of RAM and theoretically up to 3200MHz RAM is supported; in our tests, the GEIL PC4 25600 3200MHz CL16 8GBx2 Samsung B-die based kit did run well until 2933MHz, but considering that we were running the latest BETA BIOS, things may improve in the future.

A Closer Look Part II

Nearby, we do have a M.2 Key M 32GB/s connector for fitting extra storage:

Talking about the expansion slots, on the X470GT8 we can find two reinforced PCI-E 3.0 x16 slots and no less than 3 PCI-E 2.0 x1 slots. The bottom PCI-E 2.0 slot does have an x16 format but is x4 electrical:

The bottom area of the PCB does come with a populated Audio_LED header, a F_AUDIO header, two system fan headers (PWM), a CMOS Reset jumper, a BIOS switch (this board packs dual-BIOS capabilities), two USB 2.0 headers but also one USB 3.1 Gen1 header:

Moving on to the right, we do have an additional USB 3.1 Gen1 header, but also the usual Frontal Panel header:

If we do remove the shielding on the left side of the PCB, we will discover the Intel i211AT Gigabit LAN controller:

The ALC1220 Audio CODEC from Realtek is also available here:

On the X470 chipset, BIOSTAR has placed a large aluminum heatsink (RGB-enabled) that packs the Racing series logo:

Under the second PCI-E 3.0 slot, we do have the ICS 9VRS4883BKLF Clock Generator:

The ITE IT8625E SuperIO chip is located nearby:

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