ASRock Z370 Fatal1ty Gaming K6 Motherboard Review

Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Firestrike

The Gaming K6 is off to a good start, setting a competitive score at stock clocks, but nothing special. However, once it’s overclocked, it wasted no time in blasting to the top of the chart, setting a new record score of 23919 in FireStrike!

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Overclocked

Unigine Superposition 1080p Extreme

I was hoping for a repeat performance in Unigine, but as expected, the scores are pretty much identical to everything else in this GPU bound task. The plus side is that we can see the GPU is not being throttled by this motherboard.

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Overclocked

PCMark 10 Express

For multi-tasking and day-to-day system use, the Gaming K6 is one of the best we’ve tested so far. It set a fantastic score of 6122 at stock, and 6488 while overclocked to 5 GHz. Not our fastest scores, but it’s clear that Z370 is now dominating the charts overall.

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Overclocked

WPrime 32M and 1024M

Again we see the K6 setting a competitive score yet again. It’s not the fastest Z370 motherboard, but it’s far from the slowest too, setting a respectable time of 117.425. Overclocking brought it almost into first place for the Z370 motherboards though, bringing the 1024M time down to just 100.193.

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Cinebench R15

This really shows how important it is to get a stable overclock on the K-series of CPUs, running them at stock can give unpredictable performance based on your motherboard. At stock, Cinebench scores are a bit underwhelming, but once overclocked, it set a more competitive score of 1644; one of the best scores for a consumer motherboard and CPU combination.

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Handbrake MP4 to MKV Conversion 4K

Nothing too crazy for Handbrake, with the Gaming K6 performing right where you would expect it to given the 8700K CPU we’re using. Overclocking did boost that speed to 61 FPS too, which is superb for 4K video transcoding.

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Overclocked