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.





Every performance figure matches the other P35 and P965 boards tested, except for the Firewire performance. There are only ports available through the onboard pin-out and despite trying either one multiple times we could not get the performance over 17.7MB/sec, which is only about half the performance of the other P35 boards.