Sapphire Pure Platinum A85XT Motherboard Review

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

F1 2012 is a video game developed by Codemasters. It is based on the 2012 Formula One season, and is the sequel to F1 2010 and F1 2011. It is the fourth Formula One game developed by the Codemasters studios after the company renewed its licence to develop the official games of the series.

The game features all twelve teams and twenty-four drivers competing in the 2012 season, as well as the twenty circuits — including the brand new Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas — included in the championship.

First we test this game with the onboard HD7660D graphics built into the A10 5800k.

We used a 1080p setting with 2x anti aliasing enabled. We selected the built in ‘medium’ image quality preset to get a balanced result.

Fantastic results from the AMD A10 5800K at 1080p with 2 AA, averaging 39 frames per second, and maintaining a 30fps> frame rate at all times. The 3770k with HD4000 by comparison struggles to break 20 fps at all. Not even close.

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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.