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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.

Test Setup and Extra Info

Before actually starting the testing procedure, we made sure that the board was flashed with the latest available UEFI version; we went ahead and updated to the X37AK623 version from the BIOSTAR website:

The system did incorporate a Ryzen 7 2600X six-core CPU, a GEIL PC4 25600 3200MHz CL16 8GBx2 Samsung B-die based kit running at 2133Mhz (15-15-15-36 timings), one KFA2 GTX 1060 OC 6GB video card, a Cooler Master 850 PSU but also an OCZ Vector 150 240GB SSD for storage purposes/boot. During testing, the system was running on a fresh Windows 10 Creators Edition installation, while all hardware was mounted inside a Cooler Master ATCS 840 Tower case.

With the help of the AIDA64 system reporting/benchmarking utility, we have extracted some more information regarding the system:

Motherboard

IMC

Chipset

Southbridge

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