Gigabyte EP45-DS3P (P45) DDR2 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.
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.
Results Conclusions
A mixed bag of results with the EP45-DS3P, scoring lower than the the other boards in the CPU benchmarks but hitting the middle ground in the memory tests. As all the boards are based on the P45 chipset it is unsurprising that the results are very similar yet all of the boards on test are considerably more expensive than the Gigabyte which should be taken into account.
