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Sandra

I CANNOT explain why the floating point score in Sandra is so abyssimal. I tried to re-run the benchmark a number of times, even tried to see if the dual channel mode was not working... but I kept getting the same result (and much worse in signle channel mode).

Aside from the strange float banwdith, the Abit AW9D MAX wins here for integer memory bandwidth.

HDTach

For SATA performance, at burst rates and average rates the AW9D MAX slightly beats the AB9 PRO, but at the cost of higher processor utilization.

For IDE, the AW9D MAX still beats the AB9 PRO by a slight marging, however here, the processor utlization is the same.

For USB the transfer rate is identical, however the AB9 PRO is the winner here with significantly lower CPU utilization.

WinRAR

The AW9D PRO loses here - badly. I can't help but think this is related to the poor Sandra showing for floading point somehow - perhaps a mis-configured (by default) memory timing issue? I'm pretty sure a future BIOS will fix this.