ASRock N3700-ITX Braswell SoC Motherboard Review

The Test System and Test Software

Before we delve into any testing we would like to take this opportunity to review our test system.

Test System

• Motherboard varies by review
• CPU: Intel N3700 and Intel Core i7-4770k @ stock
• GPU: Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X graphics card
• RAM: Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR3 1600MHz 16GB SODIMM
• Cooling: Passive
• Case: Lian Li T80 Test Bench
• Storage Drives: Main storage: Crucial M550 512GB, Test Devices: SanDisk Extreme Pro 240GB SSD and Patriot SuperSonic Magnum 256GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive
• PSU: be quiet! Dark Power Pro 11 850W
• Operating System: Windows 8.1 64-bit
• Networking: ASUS RT-AC68U router

Test Software

• SiSoft Sandra Engineer – available here
• WPrime – available here
• Cinebench – available here
• 3DMark – available here
• Bioshock Infinite – available here
• Tomb Raider – available here
• AIDA 64 Engineer – available here
• Latencymon – available here
• Rightmark Audio Analyser – available here
• LAN Speed Test Lite – available here
• Passmark – available here

All tests are conducted three times and the average taken to use in our charts.