Performance and Overclocking
For performance tests has been used Intel i7-7700K processor, 2x8GB Ballistix Elite DDR4-3466 memory kit, Enermax Liqmax II 240 AIO water cooling and HyperX Savage 240GB SATA SSD with installed Windows 10 Pro x64. Nothing really unusual so all our readers can compare results at home.
Performance of the C7Z270-CG is about the same as that on the ASUS APEX Z270 motherboard. Result differences are barely visible so there are no tables with comparison it won’t show anything. At the same time it proves high performance of the C7Z270-CG motherboard.
Results in PCMark 10 Extended are where they should be. Performance looks great and is exactly what I was expecting.
Performance in storage benchmarks is also exceptional. Both, maximum sequential and random bandwidth is about the highest we can achieve on SATAIII SSD.
The only thing which I was expecting to be better is memory frequency. I wasn’t able to set higher memory clock than the DDR4-3200. It’s still more than what most users need. Higher memory frequency is still possible while setting more timings manually or using higher binned memory kits.
At DDR4-3200 I was able to set fully stable CL14-14-14 at 1.35V what is good result. Performance at these settings is also good.
Even though I was not able to set higher memory clock then motherboard is working with higher memory kits. Below is result from 3DMark at 1800MHz ( DDR4-3600 ) provided by Supermicro support using G.Skill Trident Z memory.
https://www.3dmark.com/fs/12944362
Rendering benchmarks are showing the same high performance as other benchmarks. Pretty much the best we can achieve on this platform without overclocking.
At the end VRMark on the IGP. IGP is clearly not the best to use for graphics benchmarks but it passes without issues even this demanding benchmark. It was also expected but I’ve seen some motherboards which had issues while using IGP so I still wanted to test that.
The C7Z270-CG is overclocking great. I wasn’t sure if I see that but results are not worse than these made on the ASUS APEX motherboard so top overclocking motherboard. Our i7-7700K processor could reach 5.1GHz using AIO water cooling from Enermax. It’s great result and I think that all gamers will be satisfied with that frequency.
