MSI Z370 Godlike Gaming Review

Written by Antony Leather

October 5, 2017 | 17:30

Tags: #coffee-lake #lga1151 #z370

Companies: #intel #msi

Test Setup

  • CPU Core i7-8700K
  • Memory 16GB (2 x 8GB) Corsair Vengeance RGB 3,000MHz DDR4
  • GPU Zotac GeForce GTX 1080 AMP! Edition
  • PSU Corsair RM850i
  • SSD Samsung SSD 850 Pro 256GB (SATA 6Gbps speed tests); Samsung 960 Evo 500GB (M.2 speed tests)
  • CPU cooler Fractal Design Celsius 240
  • Operating system Windows 10 64-bit
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Tests

    Content creation
  • Cinebench R15
  • PCMark 10 Photo Editing
  • HandBrake video transcoding
  • Terragen 4

    Gaming
  • 3DMark Time Spy (CPU test)
  • Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation (CPU test)

  • SATA 6Gbps and M.2 Storage
  • CrystalDiskMark

    Audio
  • Rightmark Audio Analyzer

    Power
  • Power consumption

    Overclocking and EFI
  • Overclocking, EFI, and software


Discuss this in the forums

Posted by Obimas - Thu Oct 05 2017 17:27

What is this. This price on 1151 is crazy.

Posted by David - Thu Oct 05 2017 17:41

I thought the average age of PC gamers was increasing, so why are the products marketed to thirteen year olds?

Godlike Gaming? FFS.

Posted by Panos - Thu Oct 05 2017 18:54

Good review bit-tech, but MSI what are they thinking?

Seriously £530 on a board with life expectancy 6 months (Z390 coming), on a platform that is crippled by the CPU 16pci-e Lanes + DMI 3.0?
Could price and features could have made sense on the X299/X399 even X370 platforms, but not on the Z370. Anything more than 1 GPU and 1 NVMe like a 960 Pro, on DMI 3.0, and goes to be bottlenecked!!!!! Hell 960EVO and giga ethernet going to be bottlenecked....

Posted by Vault-Tec - Thu Oct 05 2017 19:38

I actually can't believe MSI have released another Godlike board. Do they not read any forums?
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