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Sapphire Pure Black 990FX Motherboard Review

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SATA 3 performance from the Patriot Pyro SE 240GB is very good in all areas. The 4k results are especially noteworthy.

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The Sapphire Pure Black 990FX motherboard achieves maximum sequential rated speeds around 545MB/s read and 505 MB/s write, as good as we have seen from this specific drive.

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10 comments

  1. wow, wicked set up for AMD users. I love that graphics card !

  2. not a very attractive board like the ASROCK fatality series or some of the asus extreme boards, but overall its a heck of a good layout and seems to OC well.

    How often do sapphire update their bioses however?

  3. first time ive seen a sata port in at the same areas the CPu power connector. might be a good idea if you can route the case sata port along the reverse side and out through a hole. keep it neat. But is this any better than having another port in the standard sata area?

  4. plenty of PCIe ports, but not a single gen 3?

  5. The bios looks a lot better than their Z68 and X58 platform boards did.

  6. Didnt they poach a lot of engineers from one of the leading mobo companies anyway? seems like a good thing to do if you want to do it right.

    the layout is good, and I like the SATA port next to CPU socket and I/O panel. its easy to run the front mounted ESATA cable from a case to this location behind the mobo panel.