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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.

Overclocking Stage

Given the improvements of Precision Boost 2 and XFR2, we have found that manual overclocking of the Ryzen 5 2600X is not as spectacular as we have seen with the first generation of Ryzen processors in terms of performance gained. As seen with the Gigabyte X370 AORUS Gaming 5, we did succeed to obtain an all-core 4.1GHz stable overclock at a very decent voltage (1.250 VBios, LLC6):

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The next step was to try running 4.2GHz on all cores; we did manage to obtain full stability at 4.2GHz at 1.34V set inside the UEFI interface and got pretty decent temperatures as well:

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