Legit Motherboard Reviews
What Is The Best Sub-$100 Intel Z77 Motherboard? Find Out In Our Roundup!
| Manufacturer: | Various |
| Product: | Various |
| Date: | Mon, Aug 13, 2012 - 06:00 AM |
| Written By: | Dan Stoltz - |
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Intel Z77 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Performance Testing
There are a number of different Super Speed USB 3.0 host controllers out there. In order to know which ones perform the best we run a series of tests that will put the controller through the ringer and see how it comes out on the other side. Each of our motherboards uses a different Super Speed USB 3.0 controller and you can find the below.
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.
Testing of the USB3 was done using the "Thermaltake BlacX 5G Hard Drive Docking Station . The drive used was an Corsair Force GT 240Gb SSD.
Benchmark Results: Much like on the previous page, all three of our Intel Z77 budget boards are taking advantage of the same technology. The ASRock Z77 Pro3, BIOSTAR TZ77B, and GIGABYTE Z77-DS3H all take advantage of the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 technology present on the Intel Z77 chipset. So we aren't shocked that there is minimal differences between the boards. Looking at the sequential read speeds, they all hovered in the 246MB/s-250MB/s range with the GIGABYTE Z77-DS3H edging out the competition.
HD Tune Pro 5.00 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 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 HD Tune 4.61 Read Benchmark Results
Intel Z77 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 HD Tune 5.00 Write Benchmark Results
Testing of the USB3 was done using the "Thermaltake BlacX 5G Hard Drive Docking Station . The drive used was an Corsair Force GT 240Gb SSD.
Benchmark Results: No real surprises in HD Tune either, the performance across all of our boards was pretty uniform. The GIGABYTE Z77-DS3H did manage to pull away slightly in both the average read and average write tests.
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Page 1 - ASRock Z77 Pro3, BIOSTAR TZ77B, & GIGABYTE Z77-DS3H Sub-$100 Motherboards
Page 2 - ASRock Z77 Pro3 Intel Z77 Motherboard Page 3 - BIOSTAR TZ77B Intel Z77 Motherboard Page 4 - GIGABYTE Z77-DS3H Intel Z77 Motherboard Page 5 - The Legit Reviews Test System Page 6 - SiSoftware Sandra 2012 Sp3 Memory Bandwidth Page 7 - Futuremark 3DMark 11 DirectX 11 Gaming Benchmark Page 8 - Battlefield 3 Page 9 - Intel Z77 SATA III 6Gbps Performance Testing Page 10 - Intel Z77 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Performance Testing Page 11 - Intel Z77 Budget Motherboard Power Consumption Page 12 - ASRock Z77 Pro3 Overclocking Page 13 - BIOSTAR TZ77B Overclocking Page 14 - GIGABYTE Z77-DS3H Overclocking Page 15 - Final Thoughts and Conclusion |
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