Z370 Aorus Gaming 7 from Gigabyte – High end Intel 8th Gen mobo

1. Introduction and Overview2. Performance and Overclocking3. Closing Thoughts4. View All Pages

Performance and overclocking

At stock clocks the Core i7-8700K receives 1.16V and runs at 4.3GHz on all cores. We used the preset profile in the UEFI to overclock to 5.0GHz and that simply changed the multiplier to 50x and increased to a nominal 1.4V (1.38V actual).

Gigabyte is keen to point out the extra power phases in the Gaming 7 make this possible and you will not necessarily see the same clock speeds from the same CPU on lesser motherboards such as the Gaming 5 or Ultra Gaming.

Naturally we could have manually overclocked the Core i7-8700K and aimed for something higher than 5.0GHz but there was no point as the CPU temperature was sitting at 89 degrees and our screen grab from HW Monitor shows maximum temperatures in the mid-90s.

This very likely means you would want to consider running your CPU slightly slower to help its longevity at, say, 4.9GHz.

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