NZXT N7 B650E Motherboard Review

3DMark Timespy Extreme

3DMark Time Spy Extreme is a Windows benchmark test that uses DirectX 12 to measure the performance of your gaming PC. It consists of two graphics tests and a CPU test that show complex scenes and simulate game physics and logic. It calculates a score for each test and a combined score for the whole test. You can use it to compare your system with others, test its stability and reliability, and optimize it for better gaming performance.

3DMark is available on Steam here.

The NZXT N7 B650E gets off to a flying start in our testing, with a strong score of 9057 points and a CPU score of 9333, putting it third from the top on our charts, and surprisingly topping the performance of the Z790 Intel motherboards using an i9 processor.

PCMark 10 Express

PCMark 10 Express is a shorter benchmark that focuses on basic home PC use. It includes the Essentials and Productivity test groups. It is less demanding than the main PCMark 10 benchmark. The Essentials test group covers the common tasks that people do every day with their PCs, such as web browsing, video conferencing, and app start-up time. The Productivity test group measures system performance with everyday office applications, such as writing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.

Available now on Steam.

It does great in PCMark 10 Express too, with this test flexing many aspects of system performance, it’s clear that this is a good all-round motherboard for daily PC tasks.

Super PI 2.1 WP

Super PI is a single-threaded benchmark that calculates pi to a specific number of digits. It uses the Gauss-Legendre algorithm and is a Windows port of a program used by Yasumasa Kanada in 1995 to compute pi to 232 digits.

Available now on Super PI.

Letting the CPU off the leash in Super Pi 2.1, as it gave us our second-fastest 32M processing time, which is always great to see.

Cinebench R23

Cinebench is a real-world cross-platform test suite that evaluates your computer’s hardware capabilities. Improvements to Cinebench Release 23 reflect the overall advancements to CPU and rendering technology in recent years, providing a more accurate measurement of Cinema 4D’s ability to take advantage of multiple CPU cores and modern processor features available to the average user.

Available now on Maxon.

It excels yet again in the Cinebench R23 rendering task giving both our second higher score for single-core and all-core performance.

AIDA64

AIDA64 memory benchmark is a feature of AIDA64, a system information and diagnostics software. It measures the bandwidth and latency of the CPU caches and the system memory by performing various read, write, copy, and latency tests. It uses different instruction set extensions and optimizations depending on the processor and memory type. It also supports multi-threading, multi-processor, and multi-core systems. You can use it to compare your system performance with others, test its stability and reliability, and optimize it for better performance.

Available now on AIDA64.

Memory performance was not great, which is surprising given that the overall system performance thus far has been pretty exceptional, but latency and memory read, write and copy speeds are a little below the curve.