SATA, USB and FireWire Speeds

Using HDTach 3.0.1.0 and a few handy peripherals, we were able to get some benchmark numbers off of both the SATA controllers on the boards as well as the USB and FireWire connections. 

SATA Performance — South Bridge

Here we tested the two south bridge based SATA controllers.  We used a new Raptor 150 GB 10k RPM hard drive for the test drive.

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EVGA nForce 680i LT SLI Motherboard Review - Cheaper 680i - Chipsets 75

USB Performance

Taking a 7200 RPM IDE external hard drive from Western Digital we use HDTach to find the top transfer speeds on both motherboards.

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FireWire Performance

This external drive has both USB 2.0 and FireWire support so these results are from the same drive with the FireWire connection.

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Here is something interesting: the USB and Firewire performance here was slower on the new LT chipset than on the previous 680i SLI chipset; the results are still very fast just not up to the speeds of the more expensive chipset.  This is odd to see though as our experiences with the south bridge in question have typically been very good. 

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