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A decent showing for WinRAR. It appears that about 560 kilobytes per second is the norm for the 680i chipset. Both of the Intel chipsets are way out infront, suggesting that no one can beat Intel for sheer FSB speed performance.

There is an issue with the NVIDIA 680i chipset, which appears to also plague the latest Intel P935 Bearlake chipset. With our 680i based boards, there is some difficulty in SATA communications, despite trying on multiple occasions and in multiple fashions to install the SATA drivers. For some reason, it appears that these drivers don't want to stick. And it appears to be the same with the new Intel P935 chipset.

It is frustrating, but unavoidable. All it would require though is a major BIOS update (a good hunk of it written by NVIDIA) to help facilitate SATA driver/chipset communications. Oh well, we'll have to live with what we've got.

Pretty good IDE speeds.

Unfortunately, when the Gigabyte P35-DS3R motherboard was being reviewed, no HDTach USB speed tests were preformed due to it not recognizing our USB drive. But, based upon past experience with Intel based chipsets, and for the figures we see with the ASUS P5B-E motherboard running the Intel P965 chipset, we could expect the Gigabyte P35-DS3R to perform about the same. Then again, USB speeds aren't the end all and be all of motherboard performance.