SiliconImage Sil3112 SATA controller
Bluetooth 14 Mar 2003

As more and more SATA HD appears in the market, it is time for you to decide which controller card or onboard integrated chipset SATA supporting chipset will you choose to have the best performance.

There are a few manufacturers of SATA supporting chipset. In this review, we are going to take a look at two of them and compare them in terms of performance. This would allow you to have an idea of the difference in performance levels of the chipsets in a non-RAID environment.

We used the following equipment in our tests :

• SiliconImage Sil3112 SATA controller card with AOPEN AK79G Max nForce2 board
• Promise PDC 20375 SATA controller on board AOPEN AK79G Max nForce2 board
• AXP 2700+
• Seagate SATA 80G ST380023AS SATA HD
• 2 x 256 Corsalr RAM
• MSI GeForce4 Ti4200-8x graphics card

Benchmarks software used include :

• ATTO
• HD Tach
• Winbench99
• SiSoft Sandra 2003

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