CrystalDiskMark is a useful benchmark to measure theoretical performance levels of hard drives and SSD’s. We are using V3.0 x64.
Today we are testing with the Samsung 830 Series 256 GB solid state drive.
Here we can see why it's essential to connect a high speed SSD to a SATA-600 port on the motherboard so bandwidth isn't limited to 300 MB/s. No performance related issues with the ASrock motherboard.
I used one of these boards recently. well not the same board, but an asrock Z77 board and the fact they put in all those automatic overclocking features is better than anyone elses. I dont think ASUS do that do they? you are expected to have good knowledge of the hardware to get good boosts.
ASROCK are in many ways leading the path IMO.