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WinRAR

The stock speed ASUS P5E3 Deluxe does well at WinRAR, slightly beating the DDR2 based Gigabyte X38-DQ6 – but both are beaten by the Gigabyte P35-DS3R with high speed DDR2 memory.

When overclocked, the P5E3 dominates the WinRAR results.

HDTach

For SATA HDTach, the P5E3 ties the Gigabyte X38-DQ6, and both beat the P35 based boards badly.

For IDE HDTach, the X38 chipset based P5E3 is beaten up – VERY badly – by other boards. Frankly, it looks like ASUS may be using a USB to IDE controller to support the IDE channel on the motherboard.

USB performance is basically even across the board, except for the horrible %8 CPU utilization at stock speeds by the P5E3.