Sapphire Pure Platinum A85XT Motherboard Review

Allan 'Zardon' Campbell October 25, 2012 Featured Announcement, Motherboard

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The overall score gives a good indicator that the system would easily manage the latest Direct X 11 titles without a problem. That said, the A10 5800k scores significantly less than the Core i7 970, dropping the overall score by around 1,400 points. The Sapphire AMD system is slightly faster than our Core i3 2105 system however.

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7 comments

najiro
October 25, 2012 at 10:04 am

Wow! Very nice review. Good job AMD! Really liking this a lot! This is more competitive compared the bulldozers and piledriver processors.
Xtreme
October 25, 2012 at 10:06 am

Its quite an ugly looking motherboard on a colour scheme level (not important to some I guess). thankfully they seem to be improving their bioses. been following their motherboards here since they started doing them….
Manucuna
October 25, 2012 at 10:07 am

Its quite an ugly looking motherboard on a colour scheme level (not important to some I guess). thankfully they seem to be improving their bioses. been following their motherboards here since they started doing them….
Eran
October 25, 2012 at 10:09 am

I like this new range of low end processors from AMD, they perform really well. anyone remember ATOM? yeah, not fondly. it was sh$t
Brian
October 25, 2012 at 10:11 am

That SATA arrangement seems unnecessary. I can only assume the engineering wiring on the multi layer PCB had to be routed a specific way making the layout impossible for level port positioning.

I suppose you could use the angled connectors, although they might still connect with a larger graphics card.

Who uses mSATA however? the drives are very expensive.
Davis
October 25, 2012 at 10:12 am

would make more sense if they did a mini itx version of it for media centers only.