Legit Motherboard Reviews

ASUS, BIOSTAR, GIGABYTE, and MSI Intel Z77 Motherboard Round Up

Manufacturer: ASUS
Product: Intel Z77 Motherboards
Date: Mon, Apr 23, 2012 - 11:30 AM
Written By: Dan Stoltz -
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Intel Z77 SATA III 6Gbps Performance Testing

CrystalDiskMark is a small benchmark utility for drives and enables rapid measurement of sequential and random read/write speeds. Note that CDM only supports Native Command Queuing (NCQ) with a queue depth of 32 (as noted) for the last listed benchmark score. This can skew some results in favor of controllers that also do not support NCQ.

Intel Z77 SATA III 6Gbps CrystalDiskMark Performance Benchmark Results

The SATA III 6Gbps performance testing was completed using a Corsair Force GT 240Gb SATA III 6Gbps SSD.

Intel Z77 SATA III 6Gbps CrystalDiskMark Performance

Benchmark Results: For the most part we aren't seeing much variance between the SATA III 6Gbps performance across the Intel Z77 motherboards. The ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe did pull away from the crowd with a sequential read speed more than 25MB/s faster than the next board. The sequential write speed of the P8X77-V Deluxe was also faster, though only by 4.3MB/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.

Intel Z77 HD Tune Pro 5.00 Write Benchmark Results

Intel Z77 SATA III 6Gbps HD Tune Performance Benchmark Results

Intel Z77 HD Tune Pro 5.00 Read Benchmark Results

Intel Z77 SATA III 6Gbps HD Tune Performance Benchmark Results

Intel Z77 SATA III 6Gbps HD Tune Performance

Benchmark Results: Once again the ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe pulled away from the rest of the Intel Z77 motherboards by a solid amount. The BIOSTAR TX77XE4 and the GIGABYTE Z77X-UD5H were 25MB/s (BIOSTAR) and 16.9MB/s (GIGABYTE) behind the ASUS board while the sequential read of the MSI Z77A-GD65 was considerably slower with 351.9MB/s.

Next Page - Intel Z77 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Performance Testing


Review Index
Page 1 - Intel Z77 Motherboard Roundup
Page 2 - ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe
Page 3 - GIGABYTE Z77X-UD5H WiFi
Page 4 - BIOSTAR TZ77XE4
Page 5 - MSI Z77A-GD65
Page 6 - Four Motherboards, Four Different UEFI BIOS
Page 7 - The Legit Reviews Test System
Page 8 - SiSoftware Sandra 2012 Sp3 Memory Bandwidth
Page 9 - Futuremark 3DMark 11 DirectX 11 Gaming Benchmark
Page 10 - Battlefield 3
Page 11 - Mass Effect 3
Page 12 - Intel Z77 SATA III 6Gbps Performance Testing
Page 13 - Intel Z77 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Performance Testing
Page 14 - Rightmark Audio Analyzer Performance
Page 15 - Power Consumption
Page 16 - ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe Overclocking
Page 17 - GIGABYTE Z77X-UD5H Overclocking
Page 18 - BIOSTAR TZ77XE4 Overclocking
Page 19 - MSI Z77A-GD65 Overclocking
Page 20 - Wrapping it all up