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)

The Gigabyte A75-UD4H sits right in the middle of the pack here with SATA 3.0 Gb/s performance, but with performance from top to bottom within a few MB/s, there's not much difference from the top, either.

HDTune Pro (SATA 6Gb/s)

With just two tenths of a megabyte difference from the top in SATA 6.0 Gb/s, the Gigabyte A75-UD4H put on a good show here, for sure.

HDTune Pro (USB3.0)

There's no doubt the potential here, with the Gigabyte A75-UD4H coming out right on top.

RightMark Audio Analyzer

RightMark Audio Analyzer gave the Gigabyte A75-UD4H a good result, with little to no problems noticed. Line noise was a bit high, but that could have simply been an artifact of the board's input, and is pretty good for an onboard solution.