GIGABYTE AORUS GA-AX370-Gaming 5 Review

👤by Tony Le Bourne Comments 📅19-03-17
Test Setup & Overclocking
Test Setup
CPU AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
Cooling Noctua U12S
Motherboard GIGABYTE AORUS GA-AX370-Gaming 5
Memory 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000MHz @ 2667MHz
Graphics AMD Radeon RX 480 8GB
Storage Corsair Force LE 480GB
PSU Corsair RM750X 80 Plus Gold Certified PSU


Benchmarks
Cinebench R15 – CPU/OpenGL Score
x264 HD 4.0 – 1st and 2nd pass encoding
SiSoftware SANDRA – CPU & Memory benchmarks
POV-RAY – CPU benchmarks
TrueCrypt – CPU benchmarks
AIDA64 – CPU benchmarks & Memory
PCMark 8 – Home Suite & Photoshop
3DMark FireStrike – 3D Benchmark
Games – Rise of the Tomb Raider & Total War: WARHAMMER


Other Software
Temperature Analysis: Aida64 & Ryzen Master
Stress Testing Software: AIDA64 Stability Test
CPU Specification Monitoring: CPU-Z


Overclocking
Overlocking with the AX370 is fairly easy as the primary controls you have at your disposal is the CPU Core Ratio (in 0.25x increments), the Memory speed/timings, the CPU/memory voltage, and the loadline calibration/digital power phase settings. We managed to boot into Windows at a setting of 41.75 x 100 = 4.175GHz (approx) but using auto voltage, it wanted to use 1.57V, which is rather high and isn't recommended for anyone not using competent cooling. Moving the frequency down a little to around 4GHz, was easily attainable at around 1.425V with much more reasonable thermals. This will give a very good boost in performance. We were able to get our memory to run at its rated 3000MHz but we struggled to get over this stable. We have been informed that with the right kit, 3200MHz should be possible and it is likely that there are still some BIOS updates to come to improve memory stability. Those using high-end cooling, or a custom water cooling loop will likely find that this board will give competent overclocking results, however, the more enthusiast overclockers may prefer the AORUS AX370-Gaming K7 motherboard, or an alternative which provides control over the baseclock frequency for even greater control.







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