Asus Z87 Sabertooth Motherboard Review (w/ Intel i7 4770k)

We measure performance of the Patriot Wildfire 256GB Solid State Drive when connected to the Intel Z78 Express Chipset controller.

Performance is excellent, scoring around 490-500MB/s in the sequential read and write tests. The 4K QD32 results are excellent as well.

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The ATTO Disk Benchmark performance results are excellent across the Patriot Wildfire drive, scoring around 550MB/s in the read test and 515MB/s in the write test. No bottleneck concerns from the onboard Z78 controller.

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