The X58 chipset has been used in many motherboards and the Gigabyte board overclocks the CPU by 5% by default so performance should be higher than on some other boards without the extra in speed. One thing that should be noted is that using the same components normally should not show a marked performance difference and the spread of 1% is the maximum one would expect.
Test System
- Core i7 920 CPU running at 2.66GHz
- 3GB Qimonda DDR3-1066MHz DDR3 memory
- 2 74GB WD Raptor SATA HDDs running in RAID 0 Mode
- CoolerMaster 1000W PSU
- ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB running Catalyst 8.11
- Windows Vista with SP1 installed
Tests
- Sysmark 2007 Preview Patch 3
- PCMark05/Vantage
- 3DMark06/Vantage
- x.264
- 7zip
- wPrime
- CPUBench 2003
- Crystalmark 2004
