ASUS Rampage Extreme Motherboard
SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility capable of benchmarking the performance of individual components inside a PC. Each of the benchmarks below were run a total of five times with the highest and lowest scores being discarded and an average being calculated from the remaining three.
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Everest is in many ways similar to Sisoft Sandra. Focusing mainly on software and hardware information reporting, Everest also comes with a benchmark utility suitable for testing the read, write and latency performance of the memory subsystem. Each of these benchmarks were performed a total of 5 times with the highest and lowest scores being discarded and an average calculated from the remaining 3.
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Result Observations
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Both the Rampage Extreme and Blitz Formula SE boards performed very closely to one another. However, in the Memory testing there is now quite a difference. This is most likely down to the extra bandwidth that DDR3 provides over the DDR2 of the Blitz Formula.