Sapphire Pure Platinum A75 Motherboard Review

1. Introduction2. Packaging and Bundle3. The Sapphire Pure Platinum A75 Motherboard4. The Sapphire Pure Platinum A75 Motherboard: BIOS and Overclocking5. Testing Methodology6. Synthetic: SiSoft Sandra 20117. Synthetic: Cinebench R11.58. Synthetic: 3DMark Vantage9. Synthetic: 3DMark 1110. Synthetic: PCMark 711. Real World: Blu-Ray Playback with Cyberlink PowerDVD 1112. Real World: MKV Playback13. Real World: Flash HD Performance14. Real World: Media Encoding with Cyberlink MediaEspresso 6.515. Gaming: DiRT 316. Gaming: F1 201017. Gaming: Call of Duty Black Ops18. Gaming: Dead Space 219. Closing Thoughts20. View All Pages

SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software. Sandra is a (girl) name of Greek origin that means “defender”, “helper of mankind”. We think that’s quite fitting.

It works along the lines of other Windows utilities, however it tries to go beyond them and show you more of what’s really going on. Giving the user the ability to draw comparisons at both a high and low-level. You can get information about the CPU, chipset, video adapter, ports, printers, sound card, memory, network, Windows internals, AGP, PCI, PCI-X, PCIe (PCI Express), database, USB, USB2, 1394/Firewire, etc.

Native ports for all major operating systems are available:

• Windows XP, 2003/R2, Vista, 7, 2008/R2 (x86)

• Windows XP, 2003/R2, Vista, 7, 2008/R2 (x64)

• Windows 2003/R2, 2008/R2* (IA64)

• Windows Mobile 5.x (ARM CE 5.01)

• Windows Mobile 6.x (ARM CE 5.02)

All major technologies are supported and taken advantage of:

• SMP – Multi-Processor

• MC – Multi-Core

• SMT/HT – Hyper-Threading

• MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE 4.1, SSE 4.2, AVX, FMA – Multi-Media instructions

• GPGPU, DirectX, OpenGL – Graphics

• NUMA – Non-Uniform Memory Access

• AMD64/EM64T/x64 – 64-bit extensions to x86

• IA64 – Intel* Itanium 64-bit

We saw a decent bump in processing performance when the system was overclocked.

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