Memory Performance:

Memory performance is very good, out performing the other P35 boards since we were able to run the Gigabyte at 3-3-3-9 without issue, even though the BIOS is still a first revision. The other P35 boards needed slight drops in timings to remain stable. Even with a £105 E6300 the memory performance is still just as good.

Disk Performance:

The SATA read tests were conducted with a 74GB Western Digital Raptor using HD Tach 3.0.1.0's 8MB zone test. The USB 2.0 tests were done using an ATA133 160GB Maxtor DiamondMax 10 hard drive (model number: 6L160PO) using the same 8MB zone test enclosed in an Icy Box USB 2.0 hard drive caddy. We recorded the average read speeds in all cases.




With the board being without Firewire, there is only USB and SATA natively on board. eSATA is provided through an adapter connected to the Gigabyte GA36X PCI-Express disk controller. USB, SATA and eSATA perform well and on a par with the other P35 boards previously tested.