X58 In 2010: Four LGA 1366 Boards With USB 3.0 And SATA 6Gb/s

Benchmark Results: Synthetic

The low cost X58A-UD3R looks good in 3DMark Vantage, while the even-cheaper X58 Extreme3 pushes the performance envelope in PCMark.

Sandra is great for testing individual components, showing the negative effect of using the "wrong setting combination" in ASRock BIOS.  ASRock later sent us a new BIOS that fixes the issue.

Thomas Soderstrom
Thomas Soderstrom is a Senior Staff Editor at Tom's Hardware US. He tests and reviews cases, cooling, memory and motherboards.