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The performance of onboard storage interfaces is crucial on a modern motherboard. We use the ATTO disk benchmark to measure the speed provided by the motherboard's onboard USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gb/s storage controllers.
For SATA 6Gb/s testing we use a Kingston HyperX 3K SSD. We tested USB 3.0 performance using the same Kingston HyperX 3K SSD connected to a SATA 6Gb/s to USB 3.0 adapter powered by an ASMedia ASM1053 controller.
The SATA 6Gb/s ports on ASRock's Killer will not cap the performance of a fast SSD. This is unsurprising given that the Z87 Killer only features ports operating natively from the chipset, not from add-on controllers.
ASRock's XFast USB (with a Fatal1ty styling for motherboards in the series) is able to make use of the extra speed obtained through the UASP protocol. Using the Z87 Killer to benchmark a fast SSD over USB 3.0 takes us to the real-world limit of the SuperSpeed interface's 5Gb/s link speed.
With these kinds of USB 3.0 speeds, those of us who make use of a fast external drive to transfer games from system to system will not have to wait a painfully long time for the huge file transfers to take place.
Thats a great board for the money.
Wow! Look at those graphs!
There… are no comparisons at all! Sweet! Thanks for wasting my time.
Hi Chris,
This was the first board tested on an updated system, hence the lack of comparison numbers (as stated on the testing methodology page).
Our latest motherboard review includes comparison data for other Z87 motherboards, including the ASRock Fatal1ty Z87 Killer. It can be viewed here: http://www.kitguru.net/components/motherboard/luke-hill/msi-z87-g43-gaming-motherboard-review/.
Luke
Stay away of As Rock and the fatality boards.
They do not perform any quality control. Mine was blown up and the copper lines on the back side were literally falling in pieces.
I contacted the client support and they confirmed this was normal…. WFT!!!!!
I have never seen conductive lines of an electronics board detaching never ever.
Do not waste your money and time. avoid AsRock