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USB and SATA
The next set of testing I ran consisted of digging out our trusty Corsair Force GT and doing read speed testing in CrystalDiskMark through both the SATA and USB 3 interfaces. Typically the results aren’t far apart but in this case I was very impressed with the both the SATA and USB 3 performance of the Gaming 7. In the USB testing the Gigabyte came in over 30MB per second faster than the MSI.
SATA3 | Read Speed |
MSI Z170A Gaming M5 | 435.6 |
Gigabyte Z170X Gaming 7 | 442.8 |
USB 3.0 | Read Speed |
MSI Z170A Gaming M5 | 220.3 |
Gigabyte Z170X Gaming 7 | 251.5 |