Quote Originally Posted by acidwap View Post
Hiya All, First time poster and new the the forums here.

Just like to say this is one fantastic forum and board. I've read all 21 pages of the other extreme4 forum and and all 7 pages here. The people here and regular posters (ket especially) are awesome. And entertaining too! That spat between Lone Wolf and the other guy made for some pretty funny reading.... indeed some people just don't get rational calm discussion. haha

After reading all the pages here i'm pretty much sold on the Extreme4 Gen3 and have decided to use it for my new SB build. (just holding to see if imminent release of Bulldozer will cause intel to drop prices a little, every cent helps! )

However i do have a question that's pop up in the last couple of days. I'm not sure if anyone noticed but bit-tech recently did a review on the Extreme4 Gen3... in the last few days actually. ->Extreme 4 Gen 3 Bit Tech review.
The review was more or less to my expectations and reads like most other review of that particular board. Still quite happy to buy it. Though there was 1 bench test result that confused me a little... the sata performance test... link

The interesting thing about this bench was the difference in the intel chipset sata3 performance between the Z68 Asrock Extreme4 Gen3 & the Asus P68 Sabertooth... I know one should take any benchmark with a grain of salt and that at the core, the two boards use different chipsets. ie P67 & Z68
However, aren't the sata3 controllers on the intel chipsets the same? Or am i mistaken? I can understand that there is a performance differences between different brands of 3rd party controllers (such as JMicron vs Marvell) But shouldn't sata3 controllers from intel perform more or less the same across different manufacturers? What am i not seeing? Hardware / software bias? incorrect testing methodology?... finger of god touch the sabertooth board for a sec?

It's not a deal breaker really, but curiosity wise, I'd like to know. Anyone like to shed some light on this?
thanks in advance.
acidwap
Just ran Atto on my Extreme4 Gen3 Z68, looks like they messed up somewhere. This is on an Agility 3, which should be slower than the Vertex they used.


By davefran at 2011-09-10