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enforcerviper
Jul 27th, 2005, 12:58 PM
I've got two machines both with the same cpu and motherboard. Prescott 2.4 & GA-8S661MP-RZ.

The motherboard has an SiS 661fx chipset.

1st PC Server 2003 with a Maxtor 16MB 200GB IDE drive
2nd PC XP Pro with 2xMaxtor 2MB 80GB Software Raid 0

Using Sandra 2005

1st pc 32mb/s
2nd pc 32mb/s

That's pretty low consdering my Intel D845PEBT2 board with an Maxtor 8mb 160GB drive does 47mb/s.

Does the SiS chipset of the Gigabyte motherboards just suck?

Headhunter
Jul 27th, 2005, 01:00 PM
Are your drives 5400 or 7200 RPM?

enforcerviper
Jul 27th, 2005, 01:22 PM
7200

konfusion666
Jul 27th, 2005, 02:42 PM
Sandra is unreliable for I/O subsystem benchmarking... try HD Tach 3.x instead...