SiSoft Sandra XII	Source: Sandra

Sandra is designed to test the theoretical power of a complete system as well as the individual components. The results are also purely theoretical and may not represent real world performance.

SiSoft Sandra XII
Processor Arithmetic:	ALU MIPS	iSSE3 MFLOPS
Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6 (X38 333/1066)	23988	17200
Asus BLITZ Formula (P35 200/1066)	24058	17228
MSI P6N Diamond (NF 680i 333/1066)	24457	17061
Foxconn MARS (P35 333/1066)	24559	17188
Processor Multi-Media:	Integer	Floating Point
Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6 (X38 333/1066)	147777	79979
Asus BLITZ Formula (P35 200/1066)	147957	80354
MSI P6N Diamond (NF 680i 333/1066)	147775	79729
Foxconn MARS (P35 333/1066)	147787	80300
Multi-Core Efficiency Bandwidth:	MB/s	Ranking
Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6 (X38 333/1066)	8671
Asus BLITZ Formula (P35 200/1066)	8678
MSI P6N Diamond (NF 680i 333/1066)	8258
Foxconn MARS (P35 333/1066)	8523
Multi-Core Efficiency Latency:	ns	Ranking
Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6 (X38 333/1066)	33
Asus BLITZ Formula (P35 200/1066)	32
MSI P6N Diamond (NF 680i 333/1066)	35
Foxconn MARS (P35 333/1066)	33
Memory Bandwidth:	Points	Ranking
Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6 (X38 333/1066)	6679	6729
Asus BLITZ Formula (P35 200/1066)	6770	6807
MSI P6N Diamond (NF 680i 333/1066)	6573	6450
Foxconn MARS (P35 333/1066)	6672	6655
Memory Latency (Random):	ns	Ranking
Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6 (X38 333/1066)	75
Asus BLITZ Formula (P35 200/1066)	75
MSI P6N Diamond (NF 680i 333/1066)	79
Foxconn MARS (P35 333/1066)	75
Memory Latency (Linear):	ns	Ranking
Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6 (X38 333/1066)	10
Asus BLITZ Formula (P35 200/1066)	11
MSI P6N Diamond (NF 680i 333/1066)	11
Foxconn MARS (P35 333/1066)	11

The Foxconn MARS motherboard competes very well against the other motherboards here. CPU performance numbers are as expected, and memory bandwidth results are nice and strong.

Super Pi Mod 1.5	Source: SuperPI

SuperPI calculates the number PI to 1 Million digits in this raw number crunching benchmark. The program allows the user to change the number of digits of PI that can be calculated from 16 thousand to 32 million. Our benchmark is set to 1 Million digits and 19 iterations.

Super Pi Mod 1.5 XS
1 Million Digits:	Seconds	Ranking
Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6 (X38 333/1066)	19
Asus BLITZ Formula (P35 200/1066)	19
MSI P6N Diamond (NF 680i 333/1066)	19
Foxconn MARS (P35 333/1066)	19
8 Million Digits:	Seconds	Ranking
Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6 (X38 333/1066)	226
Asus BLITZ Formula (P35 200/1066)	226
MSI P6N Diamond (NF 680i 333/1066)	249
Foxconn MARS (P35 333/1066)	236

In Super Pi, all motherboards perform the same in the 1 million digit test. When Pi is calculated to 8 million digits we see who leaders the pack... the nForce 680i based MSI P6N Diamond motherboard. The Foxconn MARS does fairly well in this test.