Sapphire on target with gaming mainboards --- TheThirdMedia Hardware

PURE Innovation delivers top performance!
Delivering on its promise to introduce an exciting new series of motherboards, Sapphire Technology has just announced Pure Innovation - a high end product developed for gamers and PC enthusiasts who want to get the maximum enjoyment from their AMD Sempron, Athlon64TM,FX and even X2 systems using the latest hardware and performance tuning options.

Extreme Overclocking!

Exclusive to Sapphire, the PURE Innovation motherboard looks stunning with its unique design in white and its Extreme Overclocking features make it the fastest board in its class. Based on the latest ATI Express-200 chipsets and the latest Southbridge SB 450 it combines support for the powerful and highly acclaimed AMD Sempron, Athlon64TM, FX and X2 processors with the most complete set of performance tuning features available today. Main memory can be up to 4GB of Dual Channel DDR400, whilst one PCI-Express x 16, two PCI-Express x1 plus two additional PCI slots meet any need for expansion, and a full range of onboard communications options include Gigabit LAN and Firewire as well as eight USB 2.0 ports and on-board High definition Azalia 7.1 6-channel sound. Peak hard drive performance is assured with IDE, SATA-I and SATA-II support.

Developed for the performance enthusiast, the specifications for Sapphire PURE mainboards have been chosen to give the user maximum flexibility in performance optimisation. Built using high quality components to provide stability, as well as providing support for high end hardware options and offering the capability for BIOS performance tuning, PURE Innovation reaches new heights in desirability for the PC platform.

PURE Innovation!

Captured within the circuitry of the Sapphire PURE Innovation mainboard is the collective feedback of generations of hardcore gamers. Innovative suggestions have been combined with the expertise of Sapphire engineers to deliver an exciting new series of easily configured, high performance mainboards available now!

PURE Innovation Specifications:

On-Board Standard I/O
- PS2 Keyboard connector
- PS2 Mouse connector
- RJ45 Gigabit LAN port
- HD Audio port
- One floppy port
- Two IDE ports supporting up to 4 ATA133 HDDs
- Four SATA-I ports (RAID 0/5)
- Two SATA-II ports (RAID 0/1)
- SPDIF-IN & SPDIF-OUT header
- One front panel sound connector

USB Ports
- Eight USB 2.0 ports (four port via two optional cables)
- Support USB2.0 feature on Windows 2000 SP4 and Windows XP SP1 or later version

On-board LAN
- Connect PCI Express 1-lane (Marvell)
- Supports 10/100/1000 Mbt/s operation
- Support Wake-On-Lan function for remote wake up

PCI Express Graphics Interface
- One 16-lane (x16) PCI Express port intended for Graphics attach, Fully compliant to PCI Express Base Specification revision 1.0a
- Base PCI Express frequency of 4 GB/s.
- PCI Express supports and Enhances Addressing Mechanism

PCI Express I/O Ports
- two full PCI Express 1.0a compliant
- Supports 2.5GB/s bandwidth in each direction per x1 lane

Power Management
- Supports SMM, APM and ACPI
- Break switch for instant suspend/resume on system operations
- Energy star “Green PC?compliant
- Hardware monitoring circuit is supported, provide voltage, fan speed, monitoring
- Supports suspend-to-RAM (STR)

HD audio port
- 8 channel HD audio output (Realtek ALC880)
- Front Panel Audio header ready

IEEE1394
- Integrated 400Mbit/s 2 port PHY
- Two IEEE1394 ports (one port via optional cable)

Serial ATA-I controller
- Data transfer rates of 150MB/s
- Four SATA-I ports support IDE or Raid 0/1 mode

Serial ATA-II controller
- Data transfer rates of 300MB/s
- Two SATA-II ports support IDE or Raid 0/1 mode

PCI Slots
- Two PCI bus master slots ver 2.2 compliant



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