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Intel Coffee Lake Core i7-8700K, Core i5-8600K, Core i5-8400 CPU Review on ASRock FATAL1TY Z370 Professional Gaming i7 Motherboard

Hassan Mujtaba

ASRock Z370 Professional Gaming i7 Motherboard CPU Performance Tests

3DMark Time Spy CPU Performance

3DMark Firestrike is the widely popular video card benchmark test for Windows that is designed to measure your PC’s gaming performance. While the overall benchmark is great, the utility also provides a good indication of the CPU performance.

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3DMark Firestrike CPU Performance

3DMark Firestrike is the widely popular video card benchmark test for Windows that is designed to measure your PC’s gaming performance. While the overall benchmark is great, the utility also provides a good indication of the CPU performance.

Blender

Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation.

Cinebench R15

CINEBENCH is a real-world cross platform test suite that evaluates your computer’s performance capabilities. CINEBENCH is based on MAXON’s award-winning animation software CINEMA 4D, which is used extensively by studios and production houses worldwide for 3D content creation. MAXON software has been used in blockbuster movies such as Iron Man 3, Oblivion, Life of Pi or Prometheus and many more.

Cinebench R11.5

Cinebench is based on Maxon’s Cinema 4D. It is used to compare graphics as well as processor performance. We are using the CPU performance numbers for our comparison.

HandBrake

HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.

PCMark 10

PCMark 10 is a complete PC benchmarking solution for Windows 10. It includes several tests that combine individual workloads covering storage, computation, image and video manipulation, web browsing and gaming. Specifically designed for the full range of PC hardware from netbooks and tablets to notebooks and desktops, PCMark 10 offers complete Windows PC performance testing for home and business use.

POV-Ray

The POV-Ray package includes detailed instructions on using the ray-tracer and creating scenes. Many stunning scenes are included with POV-Ray so you can start creating images immediately when you get the package.

SuperPI

Super PI is used by many overclockers to test the performance and stability of their computers. In the overclocking community, the standard program provides a benchmark for enthusiasts to compare “world record” pi calculation times and demonstrate their overclocking abilities. The program can also be used to test the stability of a certain overclock speed.

WinRAR

WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce the size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from the Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format.

X264 HD Encode Benchmark

This benchmark measures the encoding performance of the processor. It offers a standardized benchmark as the clip as well as the encoder used is uniform.

Intel Coffee Lake Single Core Clock-To-Clock Performance Results

I also tested the various chips of the same tier at adjusted clock speeds to note down any IPC improvements. It looks like that Coffee Lake has slightly better IPC thanks to process and little architectural tweaking that come from more stabilized clocks. The clock speeds used are listed as:

  • Intel Core i5-7600K / Intel Core i5-7640X / Intel Core i9-7800X / Intel Core i5-8600K (4.5 GHz adjusted clocks)
  • Intel Core i7-7700K / Intel Core i7-7740X / Intel Core i9-7800X / Intel Core i7-8700K (4.5 GHz adjusted clocks)
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9.8
WCCFTECH RATING

ASRock proves with the Z370 Professional Gaming i7 motherboard that their FATAL1TY lineup is designed not only for gamers but also for heavy professional uses who want a board with no comprises on features and connectivity options.

    Pros
  • Support For Intel 8th Generation Coffee Lake Family
  • Up To 6 Core Processor Support
  • Excellent Overclocking Support on Unlocked Intel CPUs
  • Excellent Design Scheme With Solid Heatsink + Heatpipe Solution
  • Tons of Connectivity Options
  • 10 Gigabit Ethernet LAN
  • Dual Gigabit Ethernet LAN
  • Wireless + Bluetooth Module
  • 4333 MHz+ DDR4 Memory Support
  • 12 Phase Power Delivery System
  • Triple M.2 Slots (Optane Support)
  • RGB LED Support
    Cons
  • High End Design Comes at High Price ($289.99 US)
  • Limited RGB capabilities (personal preference)
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