SuperMicro C7Z370-CG-IW Mini-ITX Motherboard Review

Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Firestrike

A mini-ITX motherboard this may be, but the performance is anything but mini. Straight away, it scored our 5th fastest score for 3DMark Fire Strike, so it can certainly keep up with the big boys. It lost a few places while overclocking but still remained competitive with the high-end motherboards by only a few points.

Stock

Overclocked

Unigine Superposition 1080p Extreme

PCIe throughput is easily tested with Unigine and at stock and overclocked, it’s right where it should be. The SuperMicro scored a respectable 5553 at stock, and 5519 while overclocked.

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Overclocked

PCMark 10 Express

It seems like the latest from SuperMicro is on a winning streak. It scored strong again, with 6224 at stock, but pushed up to a fantastic 6584 points once overclocked; a great score for any Z370 motherboard.

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Overclocked

WPrime 32M and 1024M

The 8th Gen CPUs aren’t the fastest for WPrime, but the SuperMicro motherboard delivered a very competitive score of just 107.843 seconds, and down to 101.540 once overclocked.

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Overclocked

Cinebench R15

Again not an amazing score for Cinebench, but still very competitive for Z370 and the SuperMicro motherboard is doing a fantastic job competing with everything else.

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Overclocked

Handbrake MP4 to MKV Conversion 4K

For video transcoding, we hit 59.5 FPS at stock and 60.3 once overclocked. It’s great to see this motherboard doesn’t falter under the more demanding workloads.

Stock

Overclocked