Test Rig
For our tests, we used our Test Rig which consists of an EVGA Z370 Micro motherboard, along with and Intel Core i7-8700K (Coffee Lake) and a Zotac GeForce GTX 2070 (8GB GDDR6) graphics card.
* ALL tests are conducted at specified default speeds and settings.
| CPU | Intel Core i7-8700K @ 3.7GHz / Turbo boost 4.3GHz |
| Cooling | Corsair H115i AIO cooler |
| Motherboard | EVGA Z370 Micro |
| Ram | Patriot Viper Steel DDR4-4400 16GB Memory Kit |
| XMP 2.0 profiles | Memory timings : 19-19-19-39 @1.35v (2x8GB) |
| SSD | Patriot Hellfire – 240GB |
| PSU | Cooler Master GXII 750W |
| VGA card | Zotac GeForce RTX 2070 (8GB GDDR6) |
| OS |
Windows 10 |
Installation
BIOS Setup
We used the EVGA Z370 Micro motherboard … Setup in the BIOS was super easy. All I had to so was to select the XMP profile 1 and made sure the Memory Frequency was set to 3600 MHz. All other settings were left untouched on AUTO.
CPU-Z and SPD Information
CPU-Z reports the DRAM frequency at 1801MHz which is correct for DDR4-3600. Memory timings is also correctly reported at 16-18-18-36.
