The ASUS ROG Strix B360-G Gaming Review: A Polarizing $100 Motherboard Design
by Joe Shields on September 25, 2018 8:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
- Intel
- Asus
- MicroATX
- CrossFire
- M.2
- Coffee Lake
- i7-8700K
- B360
Gaming Performance
AoTS Escalation
Ashes of the Singularity is a Real Time Strategy game developed by Oxide Games and Stardock Entertainment. The original AoTS was released back in March of 2016 while the standalone expansion pack, Escalation, was released in November of 2016 adding more structures, maps, and units. We use this specific benchmark as it relies on both a good GPU as well as on the CPU in order to get the most frames per second. This balance is able to better display any system differences in gaming as opposed to a more GPU heavy title where the CPU and system don't matter quite as much. We use the default "Crazy" in-game settings using the DX11 rendering path in both 1080p and 4K UHD resolutions. The benchmark is run four times and the results averaged then plugged into the graph.
In AOTSe, the FPS achieved here in both the 1080p and 4K UHD results fell right in line with the others with only a FPS separating the best from the worst results.
Rise of the Tomb Raider
Rise of the Tomb Raider is a third-person action-adventure game that features similar gameplay found in 2013's Tomb Raider. Players control Lara Croft through various environments, battling enemies, and completing puzzle platforming sections while using improvised weapons and gadgets in order to progress through the story.
One of the unique aspects of this benchmark is that it’s actually the average of 3 sub-benchmarks that fly through different environments, which keeps the benchmark from being too weighted towards a GPU’s performance characteristics under any one scene.
Rise of the Tomb Raider results for the B360-G Gaming landed with the other results using the latest testing script. These results are a few percent above the other results that did not have the script changes. The results here look fine as well.
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Threska - Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - link
Diagnostic displays come in handy when builds go south, or hardware dies. As for the mATX, I imagine much like houses, people are downsizing, so the computer doesn't eat the desk.Samus - Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - link
Yep. Throw it in a black case and move on. Who cares what the internals of a PC look like if you never see them.Holliday75 - Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - link
Yup thinking the same thing. If I was building a new Intel box right now I would probably purchase this board and never look at it again unless I was adding a drive or fixing something.Oxford Guy - Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - link
You do see them. Black-on-black is the bane of the computer installer's life. Board makers used to understand this and color-coded everything. Instead of ease-of-use, though, we have to be teenybopper edgelords these days. Skulls on SSDs coupled with Rainbow Brite LEDs.V900 - Thursday, September 27, 2018 - link
Oh you poor, naive fool!How will you communicate the fact that you like to game to people, with the case all locked up like that, hmm?
Didn't think about that, did you?
You know what people who come to visit you will think?
"That Samus guy is kinda cool, just too bad he's not a gamer!" Yup! Thats exactly what theyll think.
desolation0 - Friday, September 28, 2018 - link
If they don't get it from the original Unreal flyby benchmark test as screensaver I'm not sure they can be helped.willis936 - Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - link
In the DPC Latency section of the System Performance page:"Our DPC latency results for the B360-G Gaming 122 µs which is about par for the course after our minor script adjustments."
Compared to the last ryzen mobo review (asrock x470):
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12666/the-asrock-x4...
"While none of the manufacturers of the boards tested on the AM4 socket so far have been optimized for DPC latency,"
Am I to understand that sub 100 us is being considered "not optimized for DPC latency" while only two of the current list of coffee lake tested mobos approach 100 us are?
Is this an oversight or is there something I'm missing? It looks like the AM4 platform is currently ahead of coffee lake in terms of DPC latency.
Oxford Guy - Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - link
I wasn't sure what motherboard I could but that would let me play computer games. So, when I saw Gaming in the title I knew it was the board I needed.Oxford Guy - Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - link
I would like to suggest to these manufacturers, though, that they strongly consider putting a bleeding severed head on the plastic heatsinks, and prominently on the packaging also. Bleeding severed heads compliment SSDs with skulls on them and encourage people to think positively about the product.96redformula - Thursday, September 27, 2018 - link
I couldn't resist picking one up in my Mobo search a week ago a half ago at $90 shipped to the door. The text is non existent once it goes into a case, no big deal, but it sure did make me rethink it when I was purchasing it. The video card and aftermarket HSF cover it all just fine :)