Asus strix x370 - Reviews 2024

We have the national exclusive analysis of the Asus Strix X370-F Gaming motherboard, which arrives to position itself on the high table of AM4 motherboards compatible with AMD Ryzen 3, AMD Ryzen 5 and AMD Ryzen 7. Its design makes you fall in love at first sight If that we add good materials that allow overclocking and a more attractive price than that of the Asus Crosshair VI.

Want to know more about her? Don't miss our review! You will be amazed at what it is capable of!

We thank Asus for trusting the product for its analysis:

Asus Strix X370-F Gaming technical features

Unboxing and design

The Asus Strix X370-F Gaming It comes in a standard size box. On its cover we find an image of the motherboard and in large letters the specific model that we have purchased.

While in the back area details all the benefits of the motherboard.

Once we open the box we see two areas. The first that separates the motherboard and the second all the accessories it includes. We detail the bundle that incorporates:

Asus Strix X370-F Gaming motherboard . SATA cable set Rear hatch HB SLI bridge Instruction manual and quick guide CD with software

The Asus Strix X370-F Gaming has the ATX format and dimensions of 30.5 cm x 24.4 cm for this new platform. The board has an elegant design as we have seen in its counterpart in the Z270 series. It has a matte black PCB with special gray details both in the area of the heatsinks, connectors and screen printing. And it is positioned in the high-end Asus by incorporating the top-of-the-range chipset: X370.

A quick look at the back of the motherboard.

As usual on all Asus motherboards, the Asus Strix X370-F Gaming features two zones with cooling: power phases and a second for the X370 chipset. It incorporates 5-Way Optimization technology that allows an increase in processor performance (overclock), energy efficiency, a high-precision digital power supply and its specialized Turbo APP software.

Internally it has a total of 10 shielded power phases with Digi + technology with chokes, better quality capacitors than the rest of the most basic range, and an 8-pin EPS auxiliary power connector.

Regarding memory, it has a distribution of 4 DDR4 ECC and non-ECC RAM slots compatible with up to 64 GB with frequencies from 3200 MHz on Dual Channel. That is, no

The layout of your PCI Express connections is pretty good. It has three PCIe 3.0 to x16 slots and four other normal PCIe x1 slots. The two connections that allow SLI to be carried out incorporate the "Safe Slot" technology that improves and cushions the graphics that are so heavy that they exist on the market today. It would be interesting if you incorporated this shield into the memory slots, hopefully Asus will take note.

As expected natively supports the installation of two graphics cards in SLI of Nvidia as CrossfireX.

On storage it has two M.2 connections to install any solid state storage device with 2242/2260/2280/22110 type format (42/60/80 and 110 mm) NVMe Gen.3 x4 with a bandwidth up to 32 GB / s.

It incorporates a sound card with SupremeFX technology with the new S1220 codec that isolates component interference (EMI) much faster and better. It also incorporates the best premium Nichicon capacitors, an ES9023 DAC supported by Sonic Radar III software.

Regarding storage, it has eight 6 GB / s SATA III connections with support for RAID 0.1, 5 and 10.

Another of the great protagonists is its advanced RGB Aura LED lighting system, which is present in 5 independent areas, providing us with a total of nine different effects from which to choose

Static: Always on Breathing: Slow cycle on and off Strobe: Turns on and off Color cycle: Goes from one color to another Music effect: Responds to the rhythm of music CPU temperature: Changes the color according to the load of the CPU Comet Flash Off

Finally, we list all the rear connections of the Asus Strix X370-F Gaming:

1 x DisplayPort1 x HDMI1 x LAN2 x USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-A + Type-C6 x USB 3.1 Gen 12 x USB 2.01 x Optical S / PDIF5 x Audio jack

Test bench and tests

TESTING BENCH
Processor:	AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
Base plate:	Asus Strix X370-F Gaming
Memory:	Corsair Vengeance 32GB DDR4
Heatsink	Corsair H100i V2.
HDD	Samsung 850 EVO 500 GB .
Graphic card	Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti.
Power supply	Corsair AX860i .

To check the stability of the AMD Ryzen 7 1800X 4 GHz processor, 3200 MHz memories, the motherboard we have stressed with Prime 95 Custom and we have used a Corsair H100i V2 cooling.

The graphics that we have used is an Nvidia GTX1080 Ti, without further delay, let's see the results obtained in our tests with a 1920 x 1080 monitor:

BIOS

Asus is one of the great benchmarks in the BIOS sector: both in stability, possible modifications, periodic updates and monitoring possibilities. We have been fiddling with the BIOS to overclock and we are super happy with the result. Although we prefer at the moment to do it from the software via Windows.

Final words and conclusion about Asus Strix X370-F Gaming

We believe that Asus has been fully successful with the launch of the Asus Strix X350-F Gaming motherboard, both at the component and design levels. And is that the big problem that we saw that the Asus Crosshair VI (which is one of the best AM4 motherboards) was at a price close to 300 euros, while the Asus X370-PRO gives great performance but has its aesthetics not It's catchy when you consider the design.

In our test bench we have been able to lift the AMD Ryzen 1800X up to frequencies of 4 GHz together with a Corsair H100i V2 liquid cooling. Although all the overclock has been via software, thanks to our guide on how to overclock AMD Ryzen, the results have been great both in games and in daily applications. What makes it a very important option to consider.

We recommend reading the best motherboards on the market.

Make special mention of the stability of your BIOS and improvements to both the sound card and the network card. Undoubtedly, improvements that make it the perfect ally in your games.

The price of 215 euros seems very successful and more after seeing the great performance it has offered us. The first units are expected to arrive in Spain in the coming weeks, along with their counterpart with the B350 chipset. Congratulate Asus and all those users who want to buy it. Chapó!

ADVANTAGE	DISADVANTAGES
+ DESIGN	- NONE BY THE MOMENT.
+ OVERCLOCK CAPACITY.
+ QUALITY OF THE COMPONENTS.
+ SUPER STABLE BIOS.
+ PRICE SEEMS ACCORDING TO US.