Legit Motherboard Reviews

ASRock 890GX Extreme4 and 890FX Deluxe4 Motherboard Reviews

Manufacturer: ASRock
Product: ASRock 890GX Extreme4 & Deluxe4
Date: Wed, Oct 06, 2010 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Dan Stoltz -
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SATA6 Performance Testing

HD Tach is a low level hardware benchmark for random access read/write storage devices such as hard drives, removable drives (ZIP/JAZZ), flash devices, and RAID arrays. HD Tach uses custom device drivers and other low level Windows interfaces to bypass as many layers of software as possible and get as close to the physical performance of the device possible.

HD Tach

The SATA6 Testing was done using Western Digital 1Tb Black Edition SATA6 hard drive.

ASUS Crosshair IV Formula USB3 HD Tach Benchmark Results

Benchmark Results: The ASRock 890FX Deluxe4 and the ASRock 890GX Extreme4 SATA6 performance achieved average read performance as high as any of the boards that we have tested. The average write speed of the ASRock 890FX Deluxe4 was .1MB/s slower than the fastest speeds that we have seen, while the ASRock 890GX Extreme4 was .3MB/s slower than the fastest that we have seen. The burst speed of the ASRock 890FX Deluxe4 was 311MB/s and the ASRock 890GX Extreme4 was 308.5MB/s which is significantly slower than either of the GIGABYTE boards we tested, although they were faster than the MSI 890FXA-GD70.

HD Tune Pro 4.01 is an extended version of HD Tune which includes many new features such as write benchmark, secure erasing, AAM setting, folder usage view, disk monitor, command line parameters and file benchmark.

HD Tune

HD Tune

Testing of the USB3 was done using the SUNBEAMTECH Airbox USB3.0 External Hard Drive Enclosure. The hard drive used was a Western Digital 640Gb Black Edition Hard drive.

HD Tune Benchmark 
Results

Benchmark Results: The HD Tune results show that all of the boards are very comparable to each other, which makes sense since they are all controlled by the AMD SB850 chip. Interestingly though, the burst rates of the ASRock 890FX Deluxe4 and the ASRock 890GX Extreme4 are still much lower than our other boards.

Next Page - Network Throughput


Review Index
Page 1 - A Pair of ASRock AMD 890 Chipset Boards
Page 2 - ASRock 890GX Extreme4 Retail Box and Bundle
Page 3 - ASRock 890GX Extreme4
Page 4 - ASRock 890GX Extreme4 System BIOS
Page 5 - ASRock 890FX Deluxe4 Retail Box and Bundle
Page 6 - ASRock 890FX Deluxe4
Page 7 - ASRock 890FX Deluxe4 System BIOS
Page 8 - Legit Reviews Test Bench
Page 9 - PCMark Vantage
Page 10 - 3DMark Vantage
Page 11 - SiSoft Sandra 2010 Memory Bandwidth
Page 12 - USB3 Performance Testing
Page 13 - SATA6 Performance Testing
Page 14 - Network Throughput
Page 15 - Rightmark Audio Analyzer
Page 16 - Aliens Vs. Predator
Page 17 - System Power Consumption
Page 18 - Overclocking the ASRock 890GX Extreme4
Page 19 - Overclocking the ASRock 890FX Deluxe4
Page 20 - Final Thoughts and Conclusion