ASUS Sabertooth Z170 S Motherboard Review

By Steven Kean

Intel Z170 Test Platform

ASUS Sabertooth Z170 S
ASUS Sabertooth Z170 S on Lian Li Test Bench
ASUS Sabertooth Z170 S
ASUS Sabertooth Z170 S CPUz Baseline
Intel LGA 1151 Z170 Test Platform
Component Brand / Model Live Pricing
Processor Intel i7-6700K Click Here
Memory Kingston 32GB DDR4 2666MHz Click Here
CPU Cooler Corsair H105 Click Here
Video Card eVGA GTX 970SC Click Here
Hard Drive Intel Pro 2500 180GB SSD Click Here
Hard Drive 2 Sandisk Ultra II 480GB SSD Click Here
M.2 Drive Kingston HyperX Predator 240GB Click Here
Power Supply Corsair CX750M Click Here
Operating System Windows 10 Pro 64-bit Click Here

The above listed components will be installed on an open air test bed and will be running a fresh install of Windows 10 64-bit Anniversary edition. All of the patches, drivers and firmware will be updated prior to beginning the performance testing.

Testing is conducted in a temperature controlled room that is maintained at 72F (22.2C), with a 24 hour burn in being completed before beginning testing. Whenever possible we will use integrated benchmarks, running them three times and averaging the results. If no integrated benchmark is available, we will use FRAPS to analyze the performance doing the same tasks three times before averaging the FRAPS results.