SiSoftware Sandra is a Windows system analyzer that includes benchmarking, testing and listing modules. It tries to go beyond other utilities to show you more of what is really going on under the hood so comparisons can be drawn. With an array of CPU and memory tests, it is ideal in comparing the motherboard performance.














In the CPU intensive test, the Gigabyte performs quite well. The FPU and multi-media performance is in line with results from the other motherboards except at 4.12GHz due to the lower maximum overclock. The ALU performance was a bit disappointing and was unable to keep up with the other boards at all clock speeds. Multi-core performance was good until the maximum overclock was tested. For some reason, performance was worse than at 4GHz.

Memory performance was the Gigabyte's strong point. It generated very high bandwidths, often exceeding the P6X58D-E, and memory latency was incredibly low with the CPU at 4GHz. The results when the CPU was at 4.12GHz were less impressive die to the lower memory speed.