MSI Z370 Gaming Pro Carbon AC Motherboard Review

Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Firestrike

When it comes to performance, we already know the Intel’s 8th generation processors have been getting some incredible new high scores. The Gaming Pro Carbon AC motherboard had no issues setting one of our highest ever scores either, easily competing with other Z370 motherboards. Once overclocked, it was able to hit an impressive score of 23858.

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Unigine Superposition 1080p Extreme

Unigine superposition is a much more GPU bound task, so there is very little difference between most motherboards as we’re just testing the PCIe throughput. However, MSI’s latest motherboard had no issues competing with the best of the best.

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PCMark 10 Express

For productivity, MSI’s latest motherboard undoubtedly impresses, setting a remarkable score of 6188, and an even more impressive 6579 once overclocked; easily making it one of the fastest boards we’ve tested.

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WPrime 32M and 1024M

Intel’s new six-core processors are no slouch, and while this new motherboard may not set our fastest time, keep in mind that it is going up against some of the extreme X299 and X399 processors from Intel and AMD. The scores are undoubtedly competitive, and once overclocked, we got that time down to just 101.332 seconds.

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Cinebench R15

The same is true in Cinebench, but the motherboard performs easily on par with other Z370 series motherboards. It set one of our highest scores so far for the platform, and it remains competitive while overclocked.

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Handbrake MP4 to MKV Conversion 4K

Handbrake conversion is pretty much identical across the board for the whole Z370 platform, but least it’s good to see that the latest motherboard from MSI is performing right where it should be at stock and overclocked settings.

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