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The XFX MB-X58I-CH19 motherboard is XFX's second motherboard to use an Intel platform, with the first being the G31 based board we reviewed last year. XFX has diversified successfully with their two Intel boards and numerous ATI based video cards as of late. If you want a motherboard based upon the X58 chipset the XFX board has some good positives including a generous bundle, good support and a fully featured motherboard based upon the best chipset on the market today. The XFX board performed a little slower in some benchmarks than the other X58 motherboards I've tested, but better than others in Sysmark 2007 and PiFast so the performance scores vary a bit. XFX will probably release another version of X58 chipset motherboard in the near future made for better overclocking and revamped for better performance. This a solid running motherboard as far as stability goes, but it does have a few quirks that make it a bit middle of the road in comparison to, the Asus and Gigabyte models we have seen here in the lab. Overclocking was okay at first, but after a BIOS flash, it did do better, hopefully as XFX gets more used to working with the X58 chipset we will see the boards full potential come out.
Test System
- XFX MB-X58I-CH-19 motherboard
- 3GB HyperX DDR3-1600MHz DDR3 memory
- 2 74GB WD Raptor SATA HDDs in RAID 0 Mode
- ATI HD 4870 1GB video card running Catalyst 8.12 drivers
- Cooler Master 1100W PSU
- Windows Vista 32-bit Business running SP1
Tests
- Sysmark 2007 Preview Patch 3
- PCMark05
- PCMark Vantage
- 3DMark06
- 3DMark Vantage
- Sisoft Sandra XII with SP1 Processor benchmark
- X264 HD Benchmark
- PiFast
- wPrime95
- CPUBench 2003
- Crystalmark 2004
- SpecViewPerf 10
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