Test Setup
For our tests, we used a test rig which includes the BIOSTAR Racing Z370GT6 Motherboard, along with an Intel Core i7-8700K (Coffee Lake) at default clock speed of 3.7GHz (turbo boost 4.5GHz), as well as 8GB of G.Skill Trident-Z DDR4-3200 ram in dual channel mode.
All tests were conducted at turbo clock speeds of 4.5GHz at a resolution of 1920×1080. High or Ultra settings enabled.
| CPU | Intel Core i7-8700K (Coffee Lake) @ 3.7GHz / Turbo @ 4.5GHz |
| Cooling | Cooler Master MasterLiquid Pro 240 AIO CPU cooler |
| Motherboard | BIOSTAR Racing Z370GT6 |
| Ram | 2 x 4GB G.Skill Trident-Z DDR4-3200 |
| XMP 2.0 profiles | Memory timings : 15-15-15-35 @1.35v |
| SSD/HDD | Patriot Hellfire PCIE M.2 256GB SSD |
| PSU | Thermaltake Toughpower RGB 750W |
| VGA card | Zotac GeForce GTX 1080 8GB GDDR5 |
| Nvidia Drivers | Latest GeForce Drivers v388.13 – WHQL |
| OS | Windows 10 |
AIDA64 Info
CPU-Z Info
Idle Temps
Temperatures for idle looks normal at around 34 degrees Celsius. It’s what I expected as there’s no activity.
Load Temps
With the system at full load, here we see the temperature jump to a high of 92 degrees Celsius. IThat’s extremely high.
