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Sandra 2004

Here is the old Sandra 2004 Memory Bandwidth chart - as you can see, the results are almost identical to the Sandra 2007 memory bandwidth chart.

HDTach SATA

For SATA burst performance, the ASUS P5B-E was only 1.3MB/sec slower than first place, and 11.2MB/sec faster than last place. Not bad at all. For average performance, only 0.1MB/sec slower than first place.

HDTach IDE

Frankly, the P5B-E did poorly for the IDE burst test, it was dead last. It did MUCH better for average transfer rate, only 0.2MB/sec less than the best result - but the icing on the cake is that it had the lowest CPU utilization, at one percent!

HDTach USB

The P5B took second place for average USB transfer rate, but it had a very high 16% cpu utilization doing that.