Now, this is something I've wanted to test since the Intel SSD 510 series
drives came out, and I finally got a chance to do it. I replaced on my test
bench my Intel P67A
GD65, and I have put in a similar
top-of-the-line AMD configuration with an 1100T, uh, the same RAM, same video
card, and I replaced it with an 890 FX board from Gigabyte. This is actually
the 890 FXA UD5. Now, what's interesting
about 890 FX boards is that they all have SATA 36 GB per second. And unlike
P67 boards, which have anywhere from 2 to four, with only two of them running
off the Intel chipset, and the other two usually running off a third party
chipset, all six of the SATA 3 6 GB per
second ports on an AMD 890FX board are
running off of the chipset. So you can run up to six Theta 3 6 GB per second
drives. But what is the performance of
the AMD chipset solution versus the Intel one? So I have attempted to at
least give us some idea of what the answer would be. So here on the left you
can see the AMD score and on the right you can see my saved Intel score with a
single drive running at SATA 36 GB per second. So you can see for reads, the
AMD controller doesn't quite hit the same sequential read
speeds, whereas everything else is actually fairly similar. So for random
performance, the AMD controller is on par. And for sequential reads, it falls
behind a little bit and other than that, it's pretty much right there. So, as
long as the CPU you choose is a good performer compared to whatever Intel
platform would have been equivalent, it looks like if you're running a SATA 36
GB per second drive such as this one, there's not going to be too much of a
disadvantage other than just this one tiny thing uh to running an AMD
motherboard based on 890 FX. So, thanks for checking out this video on Linus
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