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GIGABYTE G1 Assassin X58 Motherboard Review
| Manufacturer: | Gigabyte |
| Product: | GIGABYTE G1 Assassin |
| Date: | Tue, Apr 19, 2011 - 12:00 AM |
| Written By: | Dan Stoltz - |
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USB 3.0 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.
Testing of the USB3 was done using the SUNBEAMTECH Airbox USB3.0 External Hard Drive Enclosure. The drive used was a Crucial Technology RealSSD C300 SSD.
Benchmark Results: The GIGABYTE G1 Assassin X58 motherboard had an average read of 119.87MB/s and an average write of 116.97MB/s. This was enough to edge out all of our boards USB 3.0 performance.
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.
Our testing of the USB 3.0 performance was done using the SUNBEAMTECH Airbox USB3.0 External Hard Drive Enclosure. The drive used was a Crucial Technology RealSSD C300 SSD.
Benchmark Results: The GIGABYTE G1 Assassin has definitely brought its A-game for the USB 3.0 Performance testing. The Average read was 114.5MB/s and the Average write was 112.17MB/s, more than enough to edge out the competition by a small margin.
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| Review Index |
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Page 1 - The Gigabyte G1 Assassin Motherboard
Page 2 - GIGABYTE G1 Assassin Retail Packaging and Bundle Page 3 - GIGABYTE G1 Assassin X58 Motherboard Layout Page 4 - GIGABYTE G1 Assassin System BIOS Page 5 - Legit Reviews Test System Page 6 - SiSoft Sandra 2011c Memory Bandwidth Page 7 - GIGABYTE G1 Assassin NVIDIA SLI Scaling Page 8 - GIGABYTE G1 Assassin AMD CrossFireX Scaling Page 9 - Futuremark 3DMark 11 Synthetic Benchmark Page 10 - Rightmark Audio Analyzer Page 11 - Network Throughput Page 12 - SATA 6 Performance Testing Page 13 - USB 3.0 Performance Testing Page 14 - System Power Consumption Page 15 - GIGABYTE G1 Assassin Overclocking Page 16 - Final Thoughts and Conclusion |
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