Intel Desktop Board D975XBX2

Memory Performance:

Because we had to run the memory at 3-3-3-15 for it to remain stable the latency is larger. There is also no command rate adjustment, so the Intel board falls behind the other 975X boards by a surprising margin.

Disk Performance:

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.


The USB performance however is fantastic, matching that of the results we usually see for Firewire throughput.