SuperMicro C9Z390-PGW Z390 Motherboard Review

Overclocking

While only having a single 8-pin CPU power connector, we didn’t have any issues reaching our 5 GHz all-cores target on this motherboard. However, I’m surprised that performance was as good as it was, and that’s thanks in no small part to the competent heatsinks, MOSTETs and Capacitors on the board. It performed well enough to compete with some other high-end Z390 motherboard, and even beat a few more expensive ones such as the WS Pro. Overall, it’s a great motherboard for overclocking, and there are clear performance gains to be found.

CPU-Z

Scores

• 3DMark – 24099
• WPrime – 2.89/79.67
• CineBench – 219/2206
• Power Consumption – 47/211
• Power Consumption OC – 63/270

3DMark Firestrike

WPrime

Cinebench R15

Power Consumption

Stock

Overclocked