Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS4

Written by Richard Swinburne

February 23, 2008 | 08:20

Tags: #2 #45nm #benchmarks #core #des #duo #dynamic #energy #lga775 #motherboard #overclocking #p35 #penryn #power #quad #results #review #saving #testing

Companies: #gigabyte #intel

Memory Performance


Everest Memory Performance Test

  • Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS4
  • MSI P35 Platinum
  • Abit IX38 QuadGT
    • 7326.0
    • 6057.0
    • 7570.0
    • 6100.0
    • 7073.0
    • 6075.0
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  • Read (MB/s)
  • Write (MB/s)

Everest Memory Latency

  • Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS4
  • MSI P35 Platinum
  • Abit IX38 QuadGT
  • 66.4
  • 63.3
  • 72.2
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The memory performance is very good – not quite up to spec with the MSI, which has a slightly lower latency and faster raw read memory performance, but both are still faster than the Abit X38 board.

Unbuffered Memory Performance

Sisoft Sandra Unbuffered Memory Test

  • Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS4
  • MSI P35 Platinum
  • Abit IX38 QuadGT
  • 6065
  • 5592
  • 6326
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Memory Latency

Sisoft Sandra Random Memory Latency Test

  • Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS4
  • MSI P35 Platinum
  • Abit IX38 QuadGT
  • 82
  • 79
  • 88
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Sisoft Sandra tells a slightly different story where the Gigabyte now outperforms the MSI by quite a margin on average, even though it has a slightly higher latency.

Hard Drive Performance

A 150GB Western Digital Raptor-X Model: WD1500AHFD was used for SATA performance testing.

SATA Hard Drive Performance

HDTach 3.0.1.0, 8MB Zone Test, Average Read

  • Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS4
  • MSI P35 Platinum
  • Abit IX38 QuadGT
  • 75.4
  • 75.4
  • 75.4
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The hard drive performance of all the boards is identical – there are no incompatibilities or problems here.
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