- Everest Ultimate Edition

EVEREST Ultimate Edition is a system diagnostics and benchmarking solution for enthusiasts PC users, based on the EVEREST Technology.

During system optimizations and tweaking it provides essential system and overclock information, advanced hardware monitoring and diagnostics capabilities to check the effects of the applied settings. CPU, FPU and memory benchmarks are available to measure the actual system performance and compare it to previous states or other systems. Furthermore, complete software, operating system and security information makes EVEREST Ultimate Edition a comprehensive system diagnostics tool. The software also includes several tests for memory and CPU/FPU.

Both motherboards had a good performance at the Memory tests, with the Gigabyte to have a small advantage, probably due to the support for EPP profiles.

The Gigabyte MA790GP-DS4H seems to be slightly faster than the Foxconn A7DA-S at the CPU tests. Let's see what Sisoft Sandra software has to say about this..

SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software. It works along the lines of other Windows utilities, however it tries to go beyond them and show you more of what's really going on. You can get information about the CPU, chipset, video adapter, ports, printers, sound card, memory, network, Windows internals, AGP, PCI, PCIe, ODBC Connections, USB2, 1394/Firewire, etc. Sisoft Sandra offers a variety of tests for Memory and CPU.

The Sisoft Sandra results confirmed partially that the Gigabyte MA790GP-DS4H was somewhat faster than the Foxconn A7DA-S, especially in the memory tests. That should explain the small differences (in favor) in the previous benchmarks.