USB 3.0 To The Front Panel: ASRock Leads The Way
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Thomas Soderstrom
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ASRock was the first company to respond to our impassioned pleas for a front-panel USB 3.0 connector. As other companies attempt to catch up, we examine the boards that started it all to see if the implementation maintains full USB 3.0-class performance.
PCMark Vantage HDD Performance
Though the real-world value of some PCMark tests might be debatable, its hard drive benchmark attempts to replicate real-world program performance.
The X58 Extreme6’s PCIe bridge appears to reduce PCMark’s overall score slightly, while the P55 Extreme4’s PCIe 1.1 connection drops it to the bottom.
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