Network Interface Tests

Our network tests use the ntttcp application distributed by Microsoft for testing network controller’s efficiency.  The program creates a number of threads from a server machine to spit data at the test machine at up to Gigabit speeds.  Both maximum throughput and CPU utilization are tested.

Network Interface Test Max Throughput

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Network Interface Test CPU Utilization

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While the bandwidth test came out about equal, the GIGABYTE did pull a significant win in the CPU utilization test. Why the EPoX had higher CPU utilization I’m not sure, but it declares the GIGABYTE the winner in this area.

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