Review: HEXUS Group Test :: Is there a perfect high-end Intel motherboard?

by Michael Harries on 10 July 2008, 05:15

Tags: LANPARTY LT X48-TR2, DX48BT2, 132-CK-NF79-A1, P7N Diamond, nForce 790i Ultra SLI MCP, nForce 780i SLI MCP, X48 Express Chipset, EVGA, Intel (NASDAQ:INTC), AMD (NYSE:AMD), MSI, NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA), DFI (TPE:2397)

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Storage evaluation











In our SATA and USB testing all four boards perform virtually identically.

As noted earlier, the FireWire connection on our DX48BT2 wouldn't recognise either our standard Akasa USB/FireWire combo enclosure or a Western Digital MyBook 2TB enclosure, hence the lack of results.

Both NVIDIA boards provide superior FireWire performance than the LT-X48-TR2, but that's more down to the controller than the chipset, as neither feature inherent support.