Abit IX38 Quad GT Review

Testing:

Sisoft Sandra is a diagnostic utility and synthetic benchmarking program. Sandra allows you to view your hardware at a higher level to be more helpful. For this benchmark, I will be running a broad spectrum of tests to gauge the performance of key areas of the motherboards.

Processor Arithmetic

Multi-Core Efficiency

Memory Bandwidth

Memory Latency

Cache and Memory

File System

Physical Disks

Power Management Efficiency

The results for Sandra are split overwhelmingly in favor of the IX38. The Formula pulls ahead in the file and disk system testing. The IX38 pulls ahead in most of the CPU and memory tests. Decreased latencies and higher memory bandwidth equal better performance.