Subsystem: USB and Ethernet Performance
Many thanks goes out ot Western Digital for supplying the external USB2.0 hard drives used for testing these features!
Using 7200 RPM HDDs from Western Digital we use HD Tach to test the read and write speeds of the USB connection. The USB performance on the A8R-MVP (courtesy of the M1575 south bridge) is much slower than that of the NF4 SLI chipsets; that being said, it is still a HUGE improvement over ATI’s SB450 south bridge chip that was only getting performance levels in the teens.
NTttcp Benchmark (from Microsoft)
Oops, yet another low point for the A8R-MVP motherboard; using a PCI-based Gigabit networking connection shows apparent deficits by only breaking 600 Mb/s compared to the PCI Express based K8T900 chipset solution and the integrated solution on the A8N32-SLI NF4 board.
