MSI GODLIKE Gaming Z370 Motherboard Review

Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Firestrike

As one of the flagship motherboards onthe Z370 launch, it’s no surprise that the Godlike posted our second highest score straight away. It didn’t hit the top spot once overclocked, but it’s certainly up there with the best, posting our fifth highest score.

Stock

Overclocked

Unigine Superposition 1080p Extreme

Competitive scores for Unigine too, although this test is very much GPU bound so there’s little to no difference for most motherboards. However, hitting scores of 5539 at stock and 5528 while overclocked tells us that PCIe throughput is great.

Stock

Overclocked

PCMark 10 Express

For PCMark 10 Express, the Godlike hit our third fastest score at stock, and a fantastic score of 6320 once overclocked. Not as high as I had expected, but easily competitive with everything else.

Stock

Overclocked

WPrime 32M and 1024M

The Intel Core i7-8700K is no slouch, and with the Godlike it hit a blazing fast 114.565s in WPrime at stock. However, overclocking took that time down to a very impressive 100.604, one of the fastest times for the Z370 platform.

Stock

Overclocked

Cinebench R15

Again, not the fastest in Cinibench, but hitting 1551 at stock and 1644 is easy competition for any other high-end Z370 motherboard.

Stock

Overclocked

Handbrake MP4 to MKV Conversion 4K

While not by a huge margin, the Godlike set our (joint) highest score for Handbrake too, hitting 60 FPS, which is incredibly fast for a consumer CPU rendering 4K video. Of course, overclocking pushed that demanding benchmark up to 62 FPS.

Stock

Overclocked