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Sapphire Pure Platinum Z77K Motherboard Review

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When all four cores are loaded, the Sapphire board by default drops the core speed to 3,700mhz. The Asus Z77 boards we reviewed in the last week run at 3,900mhz, even with all four cores loaded @ 100%. This explains the slightly lower scores when running at ‘out of the box' speeds via this Sapphire board. It would be easy enough to adjust the ratio in the bios- all to 39.

This is a clever move from ASUS really. When overclocked to 4.6ghz, the scores are identical to the Asus Z77 products.

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6 comments

  1. Fat bloke with beard

    Nice review thank you. Seems their bioses are getting better when overclocking by the layout. Didnt know they nicked EVGA engineers !

  2. I think they make good products, but and its a big but. their allegance with AMD rules out SLI and this puts a lot of people off. Its a major hurdle for them.

  3. The first bios they released was dire, I remember it. this is a big step up. Still some way to go before they reach ASUS level, DIGI POWER+ menu alone is incredible and they have dedicated controls for vdroop etc.