The ASRock X370 Gaming-ITX/ac Motherboard Review
by Gavin Bonshor on April 18, 2018 8:00 AM EST- Posted in
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- ITX
- AM4
- Ryzen
- X370
- X370 Gaming-ITX/ac
Gaming Performance
Ashes of the Singularity
Seen as the holy child of DirectX12, Ashes of the Singularity (AoTS, or just Ashes) has been the first title to actively go explore as many of DirectX12s features as it possibly can. Stardock, the developer behind the Nitrous engine which powers the game, has ensured that the real-time strategy title takes advantage of multiple cores and multiple graphics cards, in as many configurations as possible.
Rise Of The Tomb Raider
Rise of the Tomb Raider is a third-person action-adventure game that features similar gameplay found in 2013's Tomb Raider. Players control Lara Croft through various environments, battling enemies, and completing puzzle platforming sections, while using improvised weapons and gadgets in order to progress through the story.
One of the unique aspects of this benchmark is that it’s actually the average of 3 sub-benchmarks that fly through different environments, which keeps the benchmark from being too weighted towards a GPU’s performance characteristics under any one scene.
Thief
Thief has been a long-standing title in PC gamers hearts since the introduction of the very first iteration which was released back in 1998 (Thief: The Dark Project). Thief as it is simply known rebooted the long-standing series and renowned publisher Square Enix took over the task from where Eidos Interactive left off back in 2004. The game itself utilises the fluid Unreal Engine 3 engine and is known for optimised and improved destructible environments, large crowd simulation and soft body dynamics.
Total War: WARHAMMER
Not only is the Total War franchise one of the most popular real-time tactical strategy titles of all time, but Sega delve into multiple worlds such as the Roman Empire, Napoleonic era and even Attila the Hun, but more recently they nosedived into the world of Games Workshop via the WARHAMMER series. Developers Creative Assembly have used their latest RTS battle title with the much talked about DirectX 12 API so that this title can benefit from all the associated features that comes with it. The game itself is very CPU intensive and is capable of pushing any top end system to their limits.
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5080 - Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - link
If have built a few systems using this board and the B350, but was never able to get a Bristol Ridge APU to work. I followed the approved memory list from ASRock without success. I Always ended up using a Ryzen CPU and Cheap GPU or since March Raven Ridge. It would be interesting if anyone else got this to work with a Bristol Ridge APU?gavbon - Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - link
If I had a Bristol Ridge APU to hand, I would have tried for you! I have used a Ryzen 3 2200G though and it worked fine :)5080 - Thursday, April 19, 2018 - link
Yes, I just finished building a system for a friend with this board and Ryzen 5 2400G. It works great, but Bristol Ridge is still a no go even with the latest BIOS 4.50.Geranium - Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - link
Gavin, are you sure this board has USB 3.1? Cause Asrock's website has no mention of USB 3.1.http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/Fatal1ty%20X370%20Gam...
SuperiorSpecimen - Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - link
3rd bullet point from the bottom of the first list.jtd871 - Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - link
I only see 1 19-pin USB3 header on the mobo top.jtd871 - Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - link
ASRock manual sez that header supports up to two ports.gavbon - Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - link
I have the board in my hands now (you had me second guessing myself) and I can confirm there is a USB 3.1 Gen1 header and a USB 2.0 header; each of them gives an additional two ports.gavbon - Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - link
I think the confusion is where it says 2 x header (it means 2 ports from a header, not 2 headers etc) - Maybe I should make it clearer in the future!gavbon - Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - link
Yeah was a total brain fart on the USB 3.1 Gen2, for some reasons it's been ingrained in my brain from lack of sleep and X470! - I blame the lack of Kenco in my cupboard! - Edited now, they are USB 3.0 (Type-C included)