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Product Application:

AMD CrossfireX Motherboard

Product Provided by:

Sapphire

Available at:

NewEgg.com

Estimated MSRP:

$171.99 - $229.99

Availability:

Now

Review by:

Paul

Edited by:

Scott

Review date:

Aug 11th, 2008

 

 

 

 

Packaging and Contents
 

 
The Sapphire packaging is pretty spiffy
Sapphire chose to use AMD's traditional colors for their box.  They spiced it up a little by making the green reflective almost like a green chrome effect.

 

 

Yellow cables anyone? Sapphire has chosen to go a little wild with their cables included with the FX motherboard. You don't see too many rounded IDE cables these days, but Sapphire brings them back in colorful style.

  



Sapphire stuffs a lot into the motherboard box.  Here's what's included.

- UltraDMA 133/100/66 cable
- FDD cable
- 4 x Serial ATA cables
- 2 x 2-port Serial ATA power cable
- I/O Shield
- User's manual

- Quick reference Guide
- SATA Driver floppy disc
- 1 bag of jumpers
- Support Disc
  - Drivers
  - Smart Guardian
  - AMD Overdrive
  - Adobe Acrobat
  - Manuals

 

Included Goodies
 

Also included is the Bernstein Audio riser card and cable and since this is the VOIP version you get the VOIP card.  If you choose to use this card, it needs to be placed next to the audio card.  The VOIP card connects to the Audio riser and the cable is pretty short.

 

Page 1:   Intro & Specs
Page 2:   AMD 790FX Chipset
Page 3:   Packaging & Contents
Page 4:   Board Layout Part 1
Page 5:   Board Layout Part 2
Page 6:   BIOS
Page 7:   BIOS Cont
Page 8:   Overclocking & Testing
Page 9:   Gaming Performance
Page 10: Conclusion