Asus Commando

Memory Performance:

Memory performance is very good as we've come to expect from Intel chipsets, even with no command rate adjustment. The board did easily do 3-3-3-9 settings with the Corsair, Kingston and OCZ memory we tried in it.

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.


Overall peripheral bandwidth is very good, with Firewire exceeding the other boards by a fraction. USB is slightly slow at just under 30MB/s, but it's only a minuscule difference.