Building a Core i7 HTPC with Sapphire Mini ITX H67

We are using a high performance Intel 510 SSD drive in this system build, so we installed the Windows 7 64 bit operating system on both SSD and Samsung 2TB mechanical drive to ascertain start up performance. Time was measured from pressing the power button until the mouse was responsive in Windows.

Boot up time is reduced from 56 seconds to 23 seconds, when moving from the mechanical drive to the Intel 510 250GB SSD drive, noticeable gains both on paper and in the real world.

We are now going to test the USB 3.0 and 2.0 speed, so we used the Kingston HyperX Max 3.0 128GB, which is an Toshiba based SSD product within a USB 3.0 capable enclosure. We will copy across the USB 3.0 system bus back and forward to the internal Intel 510 SSD.

The Sapphire H67 Pure Platinum board has no problems with USB 3.0 performance delivering speeds of 186 MB/s read and 145 MB/s write.

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