Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3 Z68 review – bargain mobo of the year

To test, we attached a Patriot Wildfire 120GB SSD to ascertain SATA 6Gbps performance.

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 and HD Tach to rate the Samsung SSD from the onboard SATA controller.

One of the best results we have achieved with this particular drive, scoring over 505 MB/s in the sequential read test. Extremely impressive.

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Again, very strong performance results in both read and write tests, peaking around 500 MB/s in the write test and 550MB/s in the read test.

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