“Top Enthusiast Board”
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Wesley Fink of Anandtech.com on the Sapphire PI-A9RX480 motherboard
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Sapphire and ATI Deliver!
“ Sapphire has done an excellent job in their PURE
PI-A9RX480 of putting their money where their mouth is.”
“It's a pleasure to see that this Sapphire ATI not only
talks the talk in options - it also walks the walk, as any Enthusiast
will soon discover.”
“…it is clear that this time around the latest ATI
Radeon Express 200 family chipsets will be seen on many top-end
motherboards. If they are close to as good as this Sapphire ATI,
it will be a good time to be an Enthusiast.”
“The Sapphire PI-A9RX480 deserves your consideration as
a top Enthusiast board. ATI and Sapphire deserve praise for having
the guts to bring this board to market.” |
On Overclocking
“ We have rarely tested a board with such incredible
stability in overclocking as this Sapphire ATI.”
“The Sapphire ATI reached the highest overclock at stock multiplier
ever achieved with our standard 4000+ processor.”
High Performance
“ In every benchmark at stock speeds, we found the
Sapphire ATI board for AMD to be fully competitive with the best motherboards
that we have tested
for Athlon 64 Socket 939.”
“…the Sapphire ATI offers 2 more memory adjustments not found
on the DFI and even more controls to tweak the performance of the motherboard.
It is clear that ATI has worked with some leading enthusiasts in refining
the Crossfire AMD - it clearly shows in the depth and breath of available
options.”
Fully Featured
“ The incredible depth of memory controls available is
perhaps best illustrated by the adjustments for vDIMM VTT.”
“The Sapphire and upcoming Radeon Xpress 200P introductions combine
the north bridge with the ATI SB450 south bridge, which features High
Definition Azalia audio for both AMD and Intel. This is the first chipset
to bring High
Definition audio to AMD. The SB 450 also supports PCI-e Gigabit LAN,
standard SATA 150, and has improved USB burst performance compared
to the earlier
SB400 chipset.”
All This And It Looks Great Too
“Sapphire and ATI have done an outstanding job of making the PURE
ATI board stand out. This starts with silver foil Sapphire packaging...to
the board window behind the outside flap...to the standout white motherboard
with red lettering…A white board in a window case with UV lighting
should have the attention of those who like to show off their computer
guts in a window case. This is certainly the first white motherboard that
we have
seen, and it is just another example of how Sapphire and ATI are out
to get the attention of the AMD Enthusiast.”
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