SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) 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. Giving the user the ability to draw comparisons at both a high and low-level. 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.

DDR2 Memory Motherboards

In the Sisoft Sandra XII CPU tests, both the Asus P5K Premium and Blitz Formula have the highest CPU scores. In the Sandra memory tests, the Asus Blitz Formula gets first position with the highest scores.

The USB performance of the three tested motherboards was measured under Sisoft Sandra with Corsair Voyager 8GB GT USB stick. The "Removable Storage" benchmark was used to get the "Performance Index" (reading/writing operations per minute).

Asus Blitz Formula is the fastest motherboard with 11287 operations/sec.

DDR3 Memory Motherboards

Asus P5K3 Deluxe seems to be faster than Blitz Extreme, as our tests showed. On the other hand, at memory tests Blitz Extreme comes second, while Biostar P35 third.

The USB performance of the three tested motherboards was measured by Sisoft Sandra with a Corsair Voyager 8GB GT USB stick. The "Removable Storage" benchmark was used to get the "Performance Index" (reading/writing operation per minute).

The best performance comes from the Blitz Extreme, with 11310 operations/sec.