ASRock Fatal1ty Z270 Professional Gaming i7 Motherboard Review

1. Introduction2. ASRock Fatal1ty Z270 Professional Gaming i7: Packaging and Bundle3. ASRock Fatal1ty Z270 Professional Gaming i7: Board Layout and Features4. ASRock Fatal1ty Z270 Professional Gaming i7: UEFI5. ASRock Fatal1ty Z270 Professional Gaming i7: Software6. Testing Methodology7. Tests: CPU Related8. Tests: Memory Related9. Tests: Gaming Related10. Overclocking & Power Consumption11. Tests: Motherboard Features Performance12. Closing Thoughts13. View All Pages

ATTO Disk Benchmark

The ATTO disk benchmark is a Windows-based utility for testing storage performance of any storage drive or controller. We use the default benchmark setup.

M.2 PCIe Performance

For M.2 testing we use a Toshiba OCZ RD400 256GB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD.

USB Performance

We test USB 3.0 and 3.1 performance using a pair of Transcend SSD370S 512GB SSDs in RAID 0 connected to an Icy Box RD2253-U31 2-bay USB 3.1 enclosure powered by an ASMedia ASM1352R controller.

SATA 6Gbps Performance

For SATA 6Gbps testing we use an OCZ Trion 150 480GB SSD.

M.2, SATA and USB performance is standard for the hardware used.

Audio

Rightmark Audio Analyser is a freeware benchmarking utility designed to objectively test the performance characteristics of audio solutions. We setup a line-in line-out loop and execute the record/playback test before generating the results report you see below. A sampling mode of 24-bit, 192 kHz was tested.

ASRock's Fatal1ty Z270 Professional Gaming i7 scored Excellent in 7 out of 8 categories and Good in the eight category for an overall rating of Very Good. Only the two ASUS motherboards performed better than it in all categories while the Gaming i7 traded places in the rankings with the Gigabyte, MSI and ASRock boards across the various tests.

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