Storage evaluation
SATA average read-speed is amazingly even across the boards, showing both chipsets to have mature SATA performance.
Burst speed fluctuates a little more, but variance is to be expected in this kind of test. In day-to-day usage, performance is liable to be the same across the three tested motherboards.
Large-file USB2.0 transfer comes up a little shy when compared to Intel ICH9's
FireWire implementation is extraneous on both chipsets, with Sapphire opting not to add the functionality.