SATA & USB performance
A look at SATA and USB performance now.
There shouldn't be much difference in the i945G and i955X Express benchmarks here; both use Intel's ICH7R southbridge.
USB 2.0 performance is a touch off NVIDIA's nForce4 pace. It's well, well above the XPRESS 200's, though. CPU utilisation was negligible on all 5 boards.