SANDRA isn’t always a benchmark that is included in hardware reviews but I believe it shouldn’t be ignored. SANDRA provides a vigorous package that tests your system in a rather large array of benchmarks. There are many aspects of benchmark that can be executed. We will be considering – CPU and memory tests.
Processor tests
With the Foxconn P67 previously holding the top spot in this test, the Sabertooth comes along and wins out at stock settings, though in the processor efficiency test the more standard P8P67 pips it.
Overclocking in these tests gives a similar boost to which we saw in the P8P67 review, showing a good performance gain can be had when overlclocking by ~30%.
Memory tests
The memory bandwidth indicates that the sabertooth cannot match the performance of the P8P67 unless overclocked. An interesting observation, which is echoed in the memory latency and cache tests also. Memory performance may be the small achilles heel of the Sabertooth, though it still happily beats the Foxconn and ECS offerings.
Overclocking once again gives performance enhancements in line with what else has been seen so far.
