BIOSTAR TA990FXE AMD 990FX Motherboard Review

BIOSTAR TA990FXE SATA III 6Gbps Performance

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.

The SATA III 6Gbps Testing was done using OCZ Vertex 3 120GB SATA6 SSD drive.

Benchmark Results: The BIOSTAR TA990FXE was able to average 443.2MB/s Sequential read and 178.0MB/s Sequential Write. The sequential read is just behind what we have previously seen, though the Sequential write was right on track with our other systems in CrystalDiskMark.

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.

BIOSTAR TA990FXE HD Tune Pro 4.61 Write Benchmark Results

BIOSTAR TA990FXE HD Tune Pro 4.61 Read Benchmark Results

Benchmark Results: In HD Tune 4.61 the BIOSTAR TA990FXE was once again just behind the performance of SATA III 6Gbps on our other AMD 990FX systems. The TA990FXE was able to hit an Average Read of 445.8MB/s and an Average Write of 392.5MB/s. This is only a few MB/s behind the GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD7.