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BIOSTAR B360GT5S Motherboard Review

Performance: Part 2

Now is time on some storage tests. We will use PCMark 8 as it performs mixed load tests so what we expect to see during daily work and not only quick synthetic benchmark.

The first pair is USB 3.0/3.0 drive on the left and SATA III on the right. For USB tests we’ve used Lexar Professional series USB 3.0 card reader and CFast 2.0 card which is able to run up to 550MB/s so can utilize the maximum theoretical bandwidth of USB 3.0.

SATA performance has been measured with Crucial MX500 SSD.

In both cases performance is high and similar to what we could see on the Z370 motherboards previously reviewed.

Interesting are results of NVMe SSD. In this case in use was Samsung 970 EVO SSD which was tested in two M.2 sockets. On the left is 16Gb/s socket and on the right is 32Gb/s socket. As you can see, the difference is barely visible what is surprising because 16Gb/s socket should limit the maximum bandwidth of this SSD by half to about 1.7GB/s. Mixed tests are showing it’s not really important. Both results are of course high and we can move to the next tests.

 
 
In 3D tests, results are exactly as expected and we can compare them to any other results where was used i7-8086K processor and the GTX1070. Results can be browsed on the UL/Futuremark website.
 
 
 
Our last test is Cinebench R15 so rendering benchmark. Also here there are no surprises. Performance is high and have not much to add.
 
 
It’s good to see that users can save some money and still enjoy high performance using cheaper chipsets like the B360. BIOSTAR B360GT5S is clearly worth recommendation. It’s fast and has everything that most gamers may need. If higher performance is required then we can always try our luck in overclocking and potential of this motherboard, at least regarding processor, is about as high as that of more expensive motherboards. Our processor could easily pass 5GHz and at auto settings was going up to 5GHz on single cores.
 

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