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The stock result with 1066FSB did not fare well here, for some reason the X38 chipset - at least as implemented on this board - does not seem to have good DDR2 performance at low clock speeds.

At 1333MHz FSB, the results looked better, and at the max overclock, the X38-DQ6 topped the chart.

HDTach

FINALLY whatever has been plaguing recent SATA-2 HD Tach results is history.

The X38-DQ6 simply dominates the results, and actually achieves excellent results clearly indicating SATA-2 speeds.

Unfortunately the IDE performance of the X38-DQ6 is very poor. As a matter of fact the results remind me of the speeds achieved by USB connected hard drives, like in the last chart on this page.

USB performance is pretty much a wash among the competitors, and other than at a 1066MHz FSB, the processor utilization for the X38-DQ6 was so close to zero that it did not register.