Installation
Installation is plain and simple, so no real issues here.
I never liked chipset coolers with an active fan that’s all exposed. It just makes the whole motherboard look a little cheap … I mean real cheap. They could have covered it with a fan grille or something.
BIOS
Don’t expect to do any serious overclocking on this motherboard. The BIOS isn’t really designed for that. However, there are some options to adjust the CPU and memory speeds and voltages. Interestingly, there’s also options for XMP profiles, so ran the ram at a speed of DDR4-2667.
Test Setup
For our tests, we used a test rig which includes the BIOSTAR Racing X570GTA Motherboard, along with an AMD Ryzen 7 – 3700X at default clock speed of 3.6GHz (turbo boost 4.4GHz), as well as 16GB of Adata XPG Spectrix D60G RGB DDR4-3600 ram in dual channel mode.
All tests were conducted at turbo clock speeds at a resolution of 1920×1080. High or Ultra settings enabled.
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 7 – 3700X (Matisse) @ 3.6GHz / Boost @ 4.4GHz |
| Cooling | Noctua NH-D15 Cooler |
| Motherboard | BIOSTAR Racing X570GTA |
| Ram | 16GB of Adata XPG Spectrix D60G RGB DDR4-3600 |
| XMP profiles | XMP profile @ DDR4-2667 |
| SSD/HDD | Adata XPG SX7000 – 240GB SSD / BIOSTAR M700 M.2 512GB |
| PSU | Thermaltake ToughPower 750W |
| VGA card | Zotac GeForce RTX 2080 AMP Extreme Core 8GB GDDR6 |
| Nvidia Drivers | Latest GeForce Drivers – WHQL |
| OS | Windows 10 |
AIDA64 Info
CPU-Z Info
Load Temps
CPU load temperatures reached 79 degrees Celsius, which is fairly high, but expected for a Ryzen 7 3700X plus X570 motherboard. In any case, our massive Noctua NH-D15 CPU cooler handled it without any issues.
