Memory Performance
Along with the processor, performance of the memory is what defines the basics of a mainboard platform and how it performs. We start by seeing how much bandwidth is available from memory controller to CPU and how quickly the CPU can get access to that bandwidth.Bandwidth
The Sapphire posts an average result that's 2% higher than the EQS mainboard despite the same basic settings applied to the CPU's memory controller by both almost-equivalent products.
Latency
The small average bandwidth difference isn't mirrored in the latency results with the EQS slightly ahead. The Athlon 64's memory controller takes away a large part of the means for differentiating memory subsystem performance on equivalently setup Athlon 64 systems, so it's no surprise to see the two boards perform much the same.
Pifast is used to validate the basic memory subsystem performance.
Pifast
Heh.