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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.

A Closer Look Part III

The Frontal Panel header is placed between the SATA ports and the 24-pin ATX power connector:

The top right corner does accommodate a SYS_FAN header:

The top socket area comes with one CPU_FAN header, but also two RGB LED headers:

The memory slots are placed quite close to the socket, so we may have some difficulties fitting larger CPU heatsinks if the RAM comes with thick heatspreaders:

The AM4 CPU socket does sport the same color as the PCB:

On the bottom PCB area, we will get to see the stock AM4 backplate, but also a M.2 32Gb/s connector with support for 2260/2280 SSDs:

Here we do also have the ITE IT8613E SuperIO chip:

On the I/O, we do have a combo PS/2 mouse/keyboard port, four USB 3.1 Gen1 ports, a USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-A plus one Type-C, one DVI-D, a HDMI port but also the usual audio ports (which do also include an Optical S/PDIF output):

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