ASUS P8P67 Motherboard Review

HDTune Pro 4.60

HD Tune is a hard disk utility with many functions. It can be used to measure the drive’s performance, scan for errors, check the health status (S.M.A.R.T.), securely erase all data and much more.

The results are from the HDTune Pro’s Benchmark, File Benchmark and Extra tests.

First the X48 platform:

Then the P67:

The two most important statistics I want to highlight from the Benchmark are the Average Transfer Rate and the CPU Usage. The P8P67 managed to maintain a faster average transfer rate than the X48 board. It registered 108.7 MB/s which is 0.3 MB/s faster than the competition and very respectable for a SATA 3.0 Gb/s hard disk. This is well within the margin of error but this editor believes that if it is tested several times with the same result, then it is conclusive.

Note: No SATA 6.0 Gb/s drives were available for testing.

In addition, there was also a slight reduction in CPU usage on the P8P67 with only 1.1% usage versus the 2.4% on the Core 2 Quad.

The File Benchmark demonstrated a slight advantage for the X48 over the P67 but proved to be negligible.

In the Extra Tests, the only result that really jumped out at me was the Burst rate. The P8P67 had an extraordinary result and after retesting a few times it was conclusive. Never before have I seen such a high reading. It registered 386,370 Input/Output Operations per Second (IOPS) and over 24,000 MB/s transfer burst rate! Amazing!