Test Configuration

Test Configuration – Hardware

• Intel Core i7-8700K (HyperThreading and Turbo boost is locked on to 4.7 GHz for all six cores. Coffee Lake DX11 CPU graphics.
• EVGA Z370 FTW motherboard (Intel Z370 chipset, latest BIOS, PCIe 3.0/3.1 specification, CrossFire/SLI 8x+8x), supplied by EVGA
• HyperX 16GB DDR4 (2x8GB, dual channel at 3333MHz), supplied by HyperX/Kingston
• GTX 1070 Ti Founders Edition 8GB, stock clocks, supplied by NVIDIA
• Team Group L5 LITE 3D 2.5″ 480 GB SSD
• 240 GB HyperX SSD (Brown), supplied by Kingston
• 240 GB HyperX SSD (Blue), supplied by Kingston
• 1.92 TB SanDisk CloudSpeed ECO Gen II SSD (SXPLFA)
• 2 TB Seagate 7200 rpm SSHD (Solid State Hard Drive)
• EVGA 1000G 1000W power supply unit
• EVGA CLC 280mm CPU water cooler, supplied by EVGA
• Onboard Realtek Audio
• Genius SP-D150 speakers, supplied by Genius
• EVGA DD-77, mid-tower case supplied by EVGA
• Monoprice Crystal Pro 4K

Test Configuration – Software

• • Nvidia’s GeForce 390.77 WHQL drivers were used.  High Quality, prefer maximum performance, single display. 
  • VSync is off in the control panel.
  • AA enabled as noted in games; all in-game settings are specified with 16xAF always applied.  All games are DX11 except as noted.
  • All results show loading time in seconds.
  • Highest quality sound (stereo) used in all games.
  • Windows 10 64-bit Home edition. 
  • Latest DirectX
  • All games are patched to their latest versions at time of publication.
  • MSI’s Afterburner, latest version.
  • HD Tach
  • HD Tune
  • AS SSD
  • ATTO
  • Crystal Disk Mark

PC Game level/loading suite 

• Fallout 4
• Grand Theft Auto V
• Call of Duty WW II
• Project CARS 2
• Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation (DX12)
• Deus Ex Mankind Divided (DX12)
• DOOM  (Vulkan)
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance
• World of Warcraft (PC Mark 8)
• Battlefield 3 (PC Mark 8)

Synthetic Benching Suites

• SiSoft Sandra 2017
• PC Mark 10
• PC Mark 8

Nvidia Control Panel settings:

We used MSI’s Afterburner to set the power and temp limits to their maximums.

Let’s head to our benching results.