Winbench 99 V1.2	Source: e-Testinglabs.com

WinBench 99 is a subsystem-level benchmark that measures the performance of a PC's graphics, disk, and video subsystems in a Windows environment. WinBench 99's tests can run on Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows Me systems.

WinBench 99 v1.2 Benchmark Results
	Gigabyte GA-8S655FX Ultra	Score	Ranking
1.	Business Disk - 200/400	22200
2.	High-End Disk - 200/400	48000
3.	Business Graphics - 200/400	777
4.	High-End Graphics - 200/400	1510

If you're working with HDD intensive applications the Gigabyte GA-8S655FX Ultra is a board you should definitely consider. It's fast, very fast. HyperStreaming certainly does it job well here - and I'll bet you thought is was just going to be another faceless marketing term?

Sisoft Sandra 2003	Source: Sandra

Sandra is designed to test the theoretical power of a complete system and individual components. The numbers taken though are again, purely theoretical and may not represent real world performance.

SiSoft Sandra 2003 Benchmark Results
	Gigabyte GA-8S655FX Ultra	Score
	Multimedia Benchmark
1.	Integer SSE2 - 200/400	13976 it/s
2.	Floating-Point SSE2 - 200/400	21452 it/s
	CPU Benchmark
3.	Dhrystone SSE2 - 200/400	9189 MIPS
4.	Whetstone SSE2 - 200/400	2475 FPU/5943 SSE2 MFLOPS
	Memory Benchmark
5.	Integer SSE2 - 200/400	4951 MB/s
6.	Float SSE2 - 200/400	4946 MB/s

The Gigabyte GA-8S655FX Ultra is providing i875P type bandwidth and that's excellent. SiS has certainly gone a long way the last little while.