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Sapphire launches Pure Black 990FX mainboard for Bulldozer overclockers
MOTHERBOARD VENDOR Sapphire has released the Pure Black 990FX motherboard supporting AMD's latest Bulldozer FX chips.
Sapphire's Pure Black range of motherboards is pitched at enthusiasts and the 990FX supports previous generation AMD AM3 processors as well as the latest Bulldozer-based FX chips. The board is based around AMD's 990FX northbridge and SB950 southbridge chips.
The Sapphire Pure Black 990FX supports up to 16GB of RAM and has four USB 3.0 ports and eight USB 2.0 ports. There are eight SATA3 6Gbits/s ports supporting RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10 functionality.
Sapphire has ditched PCI slots, throwing six PCI-Express slots on the board. Two of the slots are 16-lane, two are 8-lane and another two are 4-lane.
Sapphire promotes its QBIOS, which it claims is an easy to use UEFI implementation. There is dual BIOS, meaning should the user run into problems during an update, it can be easily reverted to a working copy.
AMD's latest Bulldozer FX chips have disappointed, however the firm has been promoting them as highly overclockable chips. That means motherboard vendors such as Sapphire have to step up and design mainboards that allow AMD fans to hit respectable overclocks with their FX chips.
Sapphire, like many other enthusiast motherboard makers touts the overclocking features of the Pure Black 990FX by plugging 8-phase voltage regulation and its own Trixx overclocking software. µ
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The AMD FX chips do OC and scale well so they are fun to work with. I hope this Sapphire mobo is better than their past efforts. For whatever reason Sapphire doesn't seem to be able to provide a fully functioning AMD mobo and they have next to zero customer support. There seems to be a huge language and technical barrier for them.