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Sapphire Pure Platinum A85XT Motherboard Review

Like the original, Left 4 Dead 2 is set during the aftermath of an apocalyptic pandemic, and focuses on four survivors fighting against hordes of the infected, who develop severe psychosis and exhibit zombie-like tendencies. The survivors must fight their way through levels, interspersed with safe houses that act as checkpoints, with the goal of reaching a rescue vehicle at the campaign’s finale. The gameplay is procedurally altered by an artificial intelligence engine dubbed the “Director” that monitors the players’ performance and adjusts the scenario to provide a dynamic challenge. Several new features have been introduced: new types of infected, melee weapons, and a story-arc that connects the game’s five campaigns together.

This is an older title that we thought we would throw in, as it will be slightly more dependent on the processor at these settings. We can see the Core i7 system pulls out way in front, and the Core i3 2105 system takes up the bottom position. Absolutely no problems from any of the systems however, with super smooth frame rates all round.

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7 comments

  1. Wow! Very nice review. Good job AMD! Really liking this a lot! This is more competitive compared the bulldozers and piledriver processors.

  2. 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….

  3. 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….

  4. 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

  5. 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.

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