Testing – System Testing
Our first full system test is PCMark Vantage. It is basically an entire system benchmark.
Moving back to Sandra 2011b, we are going to run the memory-specific tests. These tests include the Memory Bandwidth benchmark and the Cache & Memory benchmark.
To test out the speed of our OCZ Vertex 2 120GB 3.5-inch SSD which we are using as the operating system drive we used the Physical Disks benchmark in Sandra.
The X58-USB3 offers USB 3.0 support. So to test it out we compared USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 speeds using the recently reviewed Thermaltake Max 5G USB 3.0 External Hard Drive Enclosure. Here are the results.
