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Sapphire is a company most people associate with high-quality AMD graphics cards, not motherboards. While it has released a small amount of AMD motherboards in the past, this is Sapphire's first real entry into the motherboard...
Starting with the Pure Black X58 we have a board which is well built. In our time using it with a mixture of i7 CPUs it has performed flawlessly and has had no problem running memory in excess of 2100MHz. As our testing showed it also had no problems...
The Sapphire Pure Black X58 isn’t a groundbreaking motherboard. It’s quirky and not the best when it comes to overclocking, as it loses out by 25MHz in the QPI frequency overclocking stakes. Even flashing the BIOS is more difficult than on...
TuniqOur CPU's final overclock was restricted by the amount of voltage needed for the CPU to be stable, in part because of the Sapphire 8-phase power design and VRM cooling, rather than the CPU temperature. This indicates the Tuniq Tower 120 Extreme...
and RatingLooking back and going through the test results leads me to a couple of conclusions. The first being that the PURE Black Intel motherboard showed us some good performance numbers and it did rather well against, and sometimes beating, a...
6/10. Although a high end and enthusiast chipset, the feature list is a little on the light side for the price bracket. Share thisMore Mini mobo fight: Sapphire IPC-AM3DD785G Vs ECS H55H-I Mini-ITX We take a dekko at AMD's latest e series processors...
Seemingly from out of nowhere, here comes AMD heartthrob, Sapphire, with a top-end Intel motherboard, the Pure Black X58.Now, it's no stranger to motherboard manufacturing but due to its AMD leanings in the past, as its largest graphics board...
Sapphire first became a known brand due to its ATI graphics cards, and they were known for virtually no connections to the other camp. However, from time to time, this company happens to present a new motherboard every now and then. We say...
Sapphire is still very new to the motherboard arena and even though they have had a few motherboards in the past this is still relatively new territory for them, but they now have an ace up their sleeve. What gives Sapphire an Ace up the...
