Synthetic Benchmarks
3DMark Firestrike
The new Mini-ITX motherboard looks to have a tough fight on its hand, as an army of Z370 has invaded our charts this month. However, a score of 19991 is pretty competitive and our fastest X370 chipset score to date, which is impressive for our smallest X370 motherboard to date! Overclocking took the score to 20513, a nice boost overall.
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Unigine Superposition 1080p Extreme
For the more GPU bound task of Unigine, the X370 chipset has no issues keeping up with the competition. The ASUS board set a superb score of 5538, putting it way up high on our charts.
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PCMark 10 Express
Hitting 5399 at stock, and 5804 while overclocked, the motherboard certainly scored well. It’s got some ground to make up on the new Intel CPU/Mobo combinations, but they’re higher clock speeds are an advantage. However, for day-to-day work and multi-tasking, the X370 chipset is no slouch.
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WPrime 32M and 1024M
While it may not have the clock speeds, the use of an 8-core CPU on this motherboard is a big advantage for Wprime, hitting 107.925 stock and a blazing fast 100.190 while overclocked. So far, the board is showing to be exceptionally stable while overclocked.
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Cinebench R15
The stock score was fairly low, hitting just 998 points. However, once overclocked, it was more competitive in the mid-range, hitting a very impressive 1601 points in CineBench.
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Handbrake MP4 to MKV Conversion 4K
Handbrake conversion of a 4K video is hard work for any component, but the ASUS STRIX Mini hit a respectable 41 FPS stock an 61 FPS overclocked, which is about what we would expect for this chipset and CPU combination.
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Do you have pictures of the bottom of the motherboard and of the m.2 slots? How easy is it to remove the audio/m.2 riser?
Thanks for the review, much appreciated