Gigabyte EP45-DS3P (P45) DDR2 Motherboard

 

HDTach is a free hard disk benchmarking program from SimpliSoftware. This benchmark is not only capable of producing results on hard disk access times but also CPU usage required during disk access. The “Long bench” was run a total of 5 times with the highest and lowest results being omitted and an average calculated from the remaining 3 results.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

Once more the Gigabyte splits the pack, scoring higher in the burst speed than all the boards on test but scoring lowest in the read access area. All of the boards on test use the ICH10R Southbridge chipset with a 50GB partition on the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 HD.