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MSI 990FXA-GD80 Motherboard Review - AMD 990FX Chipset
| Manufacturer: | Micro-Star International |
| Product: | MSI 990FXA-GD80 |
| Date: | Mon, May 30, 2011 - 11:00 AM |
| Written By: | Dan Stoltz - |
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SuperSpeed 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 MSI 9909FXA-GD80 was able to take the lead in HD Tach when we tested the Super Speed USB 3.0. The average read of the MSI 990FXA-GD80 was 106.53MB/s while the ASRock 890FX Deluxe4 was limited to 94.5MB/s. The average write of the two boards was a similar story, the MSI 990FXA-GD80 was 104.37MB/s while the ASrock was limited to 95.43MB/s.
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 Margins we saw in HD Tach are nearly identical to what we saw in HD Tune. The MSI 990FXA-GD80 was ~12MB/s faster in the average read and ~10MB/s faster in the average write!
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Page 2 - MSI 990FXA-GD80 Motherboard Retail Packaging and Bundle Page 3 - MSI 990FXA-GD80 Motherboard Layout Page 4 - MSI 990FXA-GD80 Motherboard System Click BIOS Page 5 - The Legit Reviews Test System Page 6 - SiSoft Sandra 2011 sp2 Memory Bandwidth Page 7 - NVIDIA SLI Performance Scaling Page 8 - AMD CrossFireX Scaling Performance Page 9 - Futuremark 3DMark 11 Synthetic Benchmark Page 10 - Rightmark Audio Analyzer Page 11 - Network Throughput Testing Page 12 - SATA III 6Gbps Performance Testing Page 13 - SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Performance Testing Page 14 - MSI 990FXA-GD80 System Power Consumption Page 15 - Overclocking the MSI 990FXA-GD80 Page 16 - MSI 990FXA-DG80 Final Thoughts and Conclusion |
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