Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R

Written by Richard Swinburne

June 1, 2007 | 05:40

Tags: #2 #analysis #benchmarking #budget #cheap #core #ethernet #gigabit #p35 #results #review #spdif #testing

Companies: #gigabyte #intel

Memory Performance:


Unbuffered Memory Performance

Sisoft Sandra Unbuffered Memory Test

  • Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R (P35/ICH9R, E6300)
  • Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R (P35/ICH9R, X6800)
  • Asus P5K Deluxe WiFi AP (P35/ICH9R, X6800)
  • Asus P5K3 Deluxe WiFi AP (P35/ICH9R, X6800)
  • Asus Commando (P965/ICH8R, X6800)
  • 5480
  • 5611
  • 5488
  • 5548
  • 5678
0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
6000
MB/s

Memory Latency

Sisoft Sandra Random Memory Latency Test

  • Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R (P35/ICH9R, E6300)
  • Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R (P35/ICH9R, X6800)
  • Asus P5K Deluxe WiFi AP (P35/ICH9R, X6800)
  • Asus P5K3 Deluxe WiFi AP (P35/ICH9R, X6800)
  • Asus Commando (P965/ICH8R, X6800)
  • 89
  • 80
  • 84
  • 86
  • 75
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
nanoseconds (lower is better)

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.

USB 2.0 Performance

HDTach 3.0.1.0, 8MB Zone Test, Average Read

  • Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R (P35/ICH9R, X6800)
  • Asus P5K Deluxe WiFi AP (P35/ICH9R, X6800)
  • Asus P5K3 Deluxe WiFi AP (P35/ICH9R, X6800)
  • Asus Commando (P965/ICH8R, X6800)
  • 33.3
  • 33.2
  • 33.3
  • 29.7
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
MB/s

SATA Hard Drive Performance

HDTach 3.0.1.0, 8MB Zone Test, Average Read

  • Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R (P35/ICH9R, X6800)
  • Asus P5K Deluxe WiFi AP (P35/ICH9R, X6800)
  • Asus P5K3 Deluxe WiFi AP (P35/ICH9R, X6800)
  • Asus Commando (P965/ICH8R, X6800)
  • 64.3
  • 64.3
  • 63.8
  • 65.1
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
MB/s

eSATA Performance

HDTach 3.0.1.0, 8MB Zone Test, Average Read

  • Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R (P35/ICH9R, X6800)
  • Asus P5K Deluxe WiFi AP (P35/ICH9R, X6800)
  • Asus P5K3 Deluxe WiFi AP (P35/ICH9R, X6800)
  • 50.8
  • 50.9
  • 50.9
0
10
20
30
40
50
MB/s

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.
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