ECS Z87H3-A2X Extreme Motherboard Review

Intel Z87 SATA III 6Gbps Performance Testing

CrystalDiskMark is a small benchmark utility for drives and enables rapid measurement of sequential and random read/write speeds. Note that CDM only supports Native Command Queuing (NCQ) with a queue depth of 32 (as noted) for the last listed benchmark score. This can skew some results in favor of controllers that also do not support NCQ.

The SATA III 6Gbps performance testing was completed using a Corsair Force GT 240Gb SATA III 6Gbps SSD.

Benchmark Results: The ECS Z87H3-A2X brought it’s A game in the SATA III Performance testing. The ECS motherboard averaged 529.1MB/s sequential read and 440.0MB/s sequential write. This is more than 6.6% faster than the ASUS Z87-Pro in the read test and 1.5% faster write. The 4k Write was impressive at 126.7MB/s, 22% faster than the ASUS counterpart.

HD Tune Pro 4.01 is an extended version of HD Tune which includes many new features such as write benchmark, secure erasing, AAM setting, folder usage view, disk monitor, command line parameters and file benchmark.

Intel Z87 HD Tune Pro 5.50 Write Benchmark Results

Intel Z87 HD Tune Pro 5.50 Read Benchmark Results

Benchmark Results: The ECS Z87H3-A2X Extreme continued to dominate in HD Tune with an average read of 439.9MB/s compared to the average read of the ASUS Z87-Pro read of 356.5MB/s!