Drive and Audio Performance Results

Our drive and audio testing differs a bit from the rest of our testing, for several reasons. First of all, when it comes to drive performance comparison, differences between the P55 and P67 chipsets do leave the P55 platform with a distinct disadvantage, such that we have excluded those results from our reporting. And finally, with audio, we do not list any numbers except for those reported by the product we are testing in order to provide the most information possible, as each audio CODEC will behave quite differently, and each board does not employ the same CODEC. As such, there is no standard we can use other than the numbers themselves. You can always check our other motherboard reviews in order to make direct comparisons to audio performance.

We've tested each drive interface separately, in order to provide the most complete numbers possible. Employing HDTune Pro for all of the testing, we tested each drive outside of the OS environment, using a separate OS on a separate drive, although we do use drives with a fair amount of data on them to simulate performance in real-world situations. For audio, we've changed how we report the numbers provided, using screenshots from the textual results that RMAA provides.

HDTune Pro (SATA2)

Here we see all the AMD A75 products producing the same scores, exactly as expected.

HDTune Pro (SATA 6Gb/s)

The Biostar board gets eclipsed by the ECS A75F-A in SATA 6 Gb/s performance, with the ECS board nearly matching the Gigabyte GA-A75-UD4H.

HDTune Pro (USB3.0)

USB 3.0 drive performance is again exactly the same across the platform, with the ECS right near the top of the charts across all platforms.

RightMark Audio Analyzer

The ECS A75F-A put up some very decent audio results in Rightmark Audio Analyzer. RMAA rates the audio performance as good; we rate it as exceptional.