A very important part of overall system responsiveness is down to hard drive performance. We use two of our favourite benchmark utilities Crystalmark X64 Edition to rate the OCZ Vertex 3 240 GB MAX IOPS SSD from the onboard SATA 6GBps controller.
In CrystalDiskMark we can see the benefits of having SATA3.0 (6Gbps) connections for your drives as the performance recorded is very impressive.