Page 10 - Benchmark: EVEREST Memory Latency, HDTach 3.0.1.0

EVEREST Memory Latency

For more information on EVEREST, please read the description on Page 9 of this article.

Both the P35 based boards were consistently higher in memory latency than the X38 and X48 boards. The improved memory controller on the X38 and X48 chipsets on the Asus P5E3-Deluxe and Gigabyte X48T-DQ6, respectively, both pulled out an excellent 61.7ns memory latency on the charts for a tie.

About HDTach 3.0.1.0

HD Tach will test the sequential read, random access and interface burst speeds of your attached storage device (hard drive, flash drive, removable drive, etc). All drive technologies such as SCSI, IDE/ATA, 1394, USB, SATA and RAID are supported. Test results from HD Tach can be used to confirm manufacturer specs, analyze your system for proper performance, and compare your performance with others. HD Tach is very easy to use, quick, and presents data in easy to read graphs, including the ability to compare two storage devices on screen at the same time for easy analysis.

From: Developer's Site

We were quite interested in what the Gigabyte chip that adds support back for PATA performs in our HDTach performance benchmark. The obtained speed was excellent -- our Western Digital Caviar 80GB drive pulled an average read speed of almost 49.6MB/s and burst at 76.3MB/s. Generally speaking, the PATA performance is very good on this board.

We didn't publish a new HDTach benchmark chart for SATA2 performance, because like the Intel X38 based Asus P5E3-Deluxe, as well as the Intel P35 based Asus P5K-Deluxe and P5K3-Deluxe, the Gigabyte X48T-DQ6 uses the excellent Intel ICH9R Southbridge. As far as storage controller goes, we've ran a long Bench has been run to analyze the SATA2 performance on the Gigabyte X48T-DQ6. The drive used in our test is a Seagate 7200.10 320GB SATA2 hard drive with 16MB cache built on perpendicular recording technology.

Unsurprisingly, the performance difference between the previous generation ICH7R and ICH8R Southbridges we've previously tested are virtually non-existent. The performance is exactly the same as the Asus motherboards, since they incorporate the same Southbridge. The only difference is the additional Gigabyte chip that adds additional SATA2 ports to the board, but other than that the performance is nothing surprising -- our Seagate 7200.10 drive maxed out on a burst of 254MB/s and had an average read speed throughout the drive at 64.6MB/s.

A Full Bench has been run to analyze USB performance. The drive used is a flash drive that we have with the fastest read speed -- and that's the OCZ Rally2 Turbo 4GB we've recently reviewed.

Again, USB performance was very good -- but unsurprising as far as USB performance goes. The performance is consistent amongst all boards with Intel's ICH9R Southbridge as on the Gigabyte X48T-DQ6; in which we are quite pleased with already regardless.

Generally speaking, the storage performance on the Gigabyte X48T-DQ6 is consistent with other boards with the same Intel Southbridge.