Sapphire Pure Platinum A75 Motherboard Review

1. Introduction2. Packaging and Bundle3. The Sapphire Pure Platinum A75 Motherboard4. The Sapphire Pure Platinum A75 Motherboard: BIOS and Overclocking5. Testing Methodology6. Synthetic: SiSoft Sandra 20117. Synthetic: Cinebench R11.58. Synthetic: 3DMark Vantage9. Synthetic: 3DMark 1110. Synthetic: PCMark 711. Real World: Blu-Ray Playback with Cyberlink PowerDVD 1112. Real World: MKV Playback13. Real World: Flash HD Performance14. Real World: Media Encoding with Cyberlink MediaEspresso 6.515. Gaming: DiRT 316. Gaming: F1 201017. Gaming: Call of Duty Black Ops18. Gaming: Dead Space 219. Closing Thoughts20. View All Pages

For our tests, we used a Coolit ECO A.L.C. to cool the AMD Vision A8-3850 APU and used an Antec TruePower 550W power supply for the system. According to AMD, the Lynx platform can experience instability with some larger power supplies (750W+) due to the lower idle power so it is worth bearing this in mind when you’re building a Lynx system.

Test System

Motherboard: Sapphire Pure Platinum A75
APU: AMD Vision A8-3850 2.9 GHz
Memory: 4 GB (2x 2GB) Corsair Dominator 1333 MHz
Power Supply: Antec TruePower 550W
Cooler: Coolit ECO A.L.C.
Thermal Paste: Arctic Cooling MX-3
Drive: Mushkin Chronos 240 GB
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
Graphics (APU Only): AMD Radeon HD 6550D (512 MB Allocated)
Graphics (Dual Graphics Mode for real world gaming tests): AMD Radeon HD 6690D2 (6550D + AMD Radeon 6670) – tests in this mode are listed ‘DG’

Other Hardware

Viewsonic VX2260WM 1920 x 1080 Monitor

Software:

SiSoft Sandra 2011 SP3
Cinebench R11.5
3DMark 11
3DMark Vantage
PCMark 7
CrystalDiskMark
Cyberlink PowerDVD 11
Cyberlink MediaEspresso 6
DiRT 3
F1 2010
Dead Space 2
Call of Duty: Black Ops

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