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Sapphire Pure Platinum Z68 Motherboard Review

Allan 'Zardon' Campbell August 18, 2011 Featured Tech News, Motherboard

Rating: 8.0.

Sapphire have been releasing a steady stream of products this year, and today we are looking at their latest motherboard, the Pure Platinum Z68 which targets the enthusiast Sandybridge audience. Can the Sapphire product offer enough to stand out in such a crowded marketplace?

To this point in time, the Sapphire Pure motherboard range has not failed to impress. With a team of dedicated engineers tweaking their own designs they have been able to offer competitively priced motherboards with strong overclocking capabilities.

The Z68 range is today's hottest enthusiast grade motherboard, it is the successor to the P67 series, which suffered a lot of negative attention due to the very public Cougar Point SATA issues. The Sapphire Pure Platinum Z68 is a dual bios motherboard with support for AMD Crossfire, USB 3.0, SATA 3, Bluetooth 2.1 and Lucid Virtua technology.

Specification Sapphire Pure Platinum Z68 Motherboard
CPU Support Intel LGA1155: Intel Core i7 /i5 / i3 series processors
BIOS AMI BIOS, 16Mb Flash ROM
Memory 4 slots 240-pin DDR3 800/1066/1333/1600+ non-ECC ,un-buffered memory.16 GB Max.
Graphics Intel® HD Graphics
Expansion Slots
 3 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots

3 x 32-bit PCI slots
Storage 4 x Serial ATA III 6Gb/s connectors

4 x Serial ATA II 3Gb/s connectors

Supports HDDs with RAID 0, 1,5,10 functions
Audio Realtek ALC892 HD Audio CODEC with 8-Channel
Ethernet LAN
 Marvell 88E8057 PCI-Express Gigabit LAN
Form Factor
 ATX, Size 12″ x 9.6″
OS support
 Windows 7 (32/64) bit

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3 comments

  1. As good as it gets
    August 18, 2011 at 7:24 am

    ALways a shame their products dont support SLI.

  2. Colin
    August 18, 2011 at 8:51 am

    Very fair review. It seems more aimed at enthusiast users with a little more knowledge of the bios. When I read the reviews of ASROCK and asus boards, there are settings basically which take out all of the work. Just one setting for a clock speed for the processor installed. This is a great idea.

    I wouldnt have a problem with the sapphire ;’slightly old fashioned’ bios settings, but for a newbie,. they would be better investing in a different board with UEFI, kiddie proof settings.

  3. Davis
    August 18, 2011 at 9:26 am

    DIdnt Sapphire poach some of the engineers from ASUS or something? probably why they are doing so well with the board designs.

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