Ethernet performance
We evaluated Ethernet performance using the NTttcp tool from Microsoft's Windows DDK. The docs say this program "provides the customer with a multi-threaded, asynchronous performance benchmark for measuring achievable data transfer rate."

We used the following command line options on the server machine:

ntttcps -m 4,0,192.168.1.25 -a

..and the same basic thing on each of our test systems acting as clients:

ntttcpr -m 4,0,192.168.1.25 -a

Our server was a Windows XP Pro system based on Asus' P5WD2 Premium motherboard with a Pentium 4 3.4GHz Extreme Edition (800MHz front-side bus, Hyper-Threading enabled) and PCI Express-attached Gigabit Ethernet. A crossover CAT6 cable was used to connect the server to each system.

The boards were tested with jumbo frames disabled.

The Fatal1ty and Platinum offer comparable Gigabit Ethernet throughput, but the Abit board's CPU utilization is much lower during the test, despite the fact that both boards use the same chipset and associated drivers. We repeated this test numerous times, but the results were consistent.