In terms of performance Sapphire PURE Innovation PI-A9RX480 didn’t work wonders. This solution based on ATI Radeon Xpress 200P chipset proved to be as fast as NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra based mainboards we tested. In fact, this is a pretty natural result, as a chipset can hardly have that much of a negative influence on the performance of AMD Athlon 64 processor since the memory controller is embedded into the CPU.