AORUS XTREME Z390 Gaming Motherboard Review

Overclocking

As with all the motherboards in the Z390 range, the AORUS XTREME had no issues taking our i9-9900K to 5 GHz on all cores. However, it has the most robust VRM cooling of pretty much any motherboard we’ve ever seen. With that in mind, the VRM are without a doubt cooler, and this will mean less throttling. With a better-binned CPU and a bigger CPU cooler, this will no doubt be the motherboard of choice for breaking some world records in the coming weeks and months.

CPU-Z

Scores

It scored our second highest score in 3DMark, with the ASUS taking the top spot, however, they both did incredibly well and gave the extreme performance one would expect from flagship motherboards. The WPrime score was slashed, giving us the fastest 32M time yet for Z390, and a 1024M time of 78.101, one of the top three scores for Z390 by a fraction of a second. However, it was CineBench R15 that saw the biggest improvement. Here is scored our highest single core performance ever of 221, albeit the Aorus Pro also scored that same figure. It also scored our highest multi-core score for Z390 too, with a whopping 2210, making it the fastest consumer score short of using an X299 or X399 CPU/motherboard.

• 3DMark – 24531
• WPrime – 2.847/78.101
• CineBench – 221/2210
• Power Consumption – 48/251
• Power Consumption OC – 61/301

3DMark Firestrike

WPrime

Cinebench R15

Power Consumption

Stock

Overclocked