Biostar TForce4 U 775

Disk Performance:

The SATA read tests were conducted with a 200GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 (model number: ST3200827AS) using HD Tach 3.0.1.0's 8MB zone test. Both the IDE and USB 2.0 tests were done using an ATA133 160GB Maxtor DiamondMax 10 hard drive (model number: 6L160PO) using the same 8MB zone test. We recorded the average read speeds in all cases.

Performance is as expected here.

The Biostar's IDE channel didn't perform quite as well as the Intel D975XBX and DFI nF4 SLI-DR - it delivered over 0.5MBps lower transfer throughput than the competition.

Both Intel boards had a lower average USB2.0 transfer speed that equated to around a 7% performance differential.