BIOSTAR RACING Z270GT4 LGA1151 Motherboard Review

Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Firestrike

Performance of the Z270 motherboard from BIOSTAR is off to a good start, beating out the X370 MPower from MSI by a small margin.

Stock

Overclocked

Another good performance here, showing that the 7700K we’re using can still outpace the 1800X when it comes to GPU throughput. Of course, synthetic benchmarks are only part of the story.

Unigine Superposition 1080p Extreme

Another respectable score here, with competitive figures in both stock and overclocked scenarios. This tells us that our GTX 1080 Ti is being left to do its job and not hindered by the CPU or motherboard.

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Overclocked

PCMark 10 Express

When it comes to day to day computing tasks, PCMark 10 Express is a great indicator of general system performance. The Z270GT4 passed with flying colours, and even showed huge improvements from overclocking. I will point out that PCMark 10 Express favours quad-core CPUs heavily at this time.

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Overclocked

WPrime 32M and 1024M

The BIOSTAR Racing motherboard did well here too, sure the time isn’t great, but keep in mind it’s the only using the quad-core chip being used here. These scores are right where we expected them to be, so another thumbs up for BIOSTAR.

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Overclocked

One good thing here is that overclocking cut over 25 seconds from the time. Our 5 GHz overclock held perfectly stable throughout all testing in this demanding benchmark.

Cinebench R15

As with the WPrime testing, this score is lower due to the CPUs that the motherboard supports. This motherboard isn’t built for a rendering rig of course, but it still put out a very respectable CineBench R15 score regardless. Overclocking worked very well too, taking the score comfortably over 1000.

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Overclocked

Handbrake MP4 to MKV Conversion 4K

Interestingly, the Handbrake transcoding performance was pretty good even at stock. However, overclocking saw a huge boost in this test, taking the transcode rate to over 60fps, which is pretty fantastic. It tells us that CPU, memory, and storage are all working perfectly well together on this task.

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Overclocked