ASUS Rampage Extreme Motherboard

HDTach
 
HDTach is a free hard disk benchmarking program from SimpliSoftware. This benchmark is not only capable of producing results on hard disk access times but also CPU usage required during disk access. The “Long bench” was run a total of 5 times with the highest and lowest results being omitted and an average calculated from the remaining 3 results.
 
 HDTACH Burst Speed
 
HDTACH Average Read
 
HDTACH Random Access
 
HDTACH CPU Utilisation
 
 
SiSoftware
 
SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility capable of benchmarking the performance of individual components inside a PC. Each of the benchmarks below were run a total of five times with the highest and lowest scores being discarded and an average being calculated from the remaining three.
 
 Sisoft Disk Read Index
 
Sisoft Disk Read Access
 
 
Result Observations
 
Interestingly, the Rampage Extreme performs slightly better than the Intel P35 Blitz Formula SE chipset, even though both boards make use of the ICH9R controller.