ECS X58B-A Intel X58+ICH10R Core i7 Mainboard Review  - SiSoft Sandra 2009
Bluetooth 10 Mar 2009

Benchmarks

In this benchmark, we check out the memory bandwidth of the system running 3 Kingston DIMMs at CAS 9,9,9,27-1T DDR3-1333 (default) and with XMP enabled, it defaults to CAS 9,9,9,27-1T, DDR3-1800.

The results are 21.48GB/s (Int) and 20.07GB/s (float) when XMP is enabled. With the default settings running the memory at the recognised speed C9,9,9,27,1T DDR3-1333, it only score 19.96/19.9GB/s. That score is definitely not comparable to it running modules at CAS 7,7-7-20,2T.

Arithmetic Processor test

In this test, the Core i7 965 scored 81.13MIPS/72.31MFLOPS for Dhrystone and Whetstone test.

Multimedia Processor test

Again, we see the benchmark of the multimedia capability of this board. The difference between running DDR3-1333 and DDR3-1800 seems to narrow down and makes little difference.

Cryptography Test

We introduce a new test to our suite of benchmarks, that is the Cryptography benchmark. In this test, the processor scored 403MB/s for AES256 CPU Cryptographic bandwidth and 530MB/s in SHA256 CPU Hashing Bandwidth.

In all the Sandra 2009 tests, we noticed that the performance seems to be slower than the previous ASRock X58 board we have tested. Do take note we disable the enhance performance feature in the BIOS for all tests. This is to ensure the CPU clock won't auto o/c by itself by a higher multiplier.

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