Sapphire Releases the Pure Black 990FX (AM3+) Motherboard

Cristian_25H · Dec 13, 2011

Well-known add-in board maker Sapphire Technology has today introduced the Pure Black 990FX, a high-end full ATX motherboard which is based on AMD's 990FX/SB950 chip combo and supports both AM3 and AM3+ processors.

Sapphire's new board comes with a black PCB and features a passive cooling solution, Diamond Black chokes, four DDR3 memory slots, nine SATA ports (six are SATA 6.0 Gbps, the rest are 3.0 Gbps) and six PCI-Express x16 slots for CrossFireX setups.

The Pure Black 990FX also has dual Gigabit Ethernet, one eSATA connector, four USB 3.0 ports (two on the back panel, two more via a header), Bluetooth, 7.1 channel audio, UEFI BIOS (and a Dual BIOS), a debug LED, and a MOLEX connector to supply graphics cards with more power. This motherboard has already started shipping and can be found listed with a price tag of 159.90 Euro.

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DanishDevil · Dec 13, 2011

I miss the PURE Sapphire boards with white PCB.

specks · Dec 13, 2011

I really thought the entire(or at least most)board was black

pantherx12 · Dec 13, 2011

Why do Sapphire make pretty nice looking graphics cards but make damn ugly motherboards?

Doesn't make sense.

Also, no sound card/regular expansion slots at all?

Cmon at-least chuck one in!

Although if all 6 pci-e slots are truely x16 that's quite impressive, could they all run at that speed?

Could be handy for a folder I guess In that case.

(FIH) The Don · Dec 13, 2011

red sata ports :shadedshu:

sneekypeet · Dec 13, 2011

In b4 everyone else:

I too miss the white PCB, seems with all the white cases it should have made a resurgence by now!?!?

specks · Dec 13, 2011

^
WTF is this? :wtf:

DanishDevil · Dec 13, 2011

specks said:
^
WTF is this?

That is Sapphire's PURE Innovation PI-A9RX480. White PCB with UV Red (pink) sockets.

sneekypeet said:
In b4 everyone else:
http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/motherboards/sapphire/pi-a9rx480/sapphire_sml.jpg
I too miss the white PCB, seems with all the white cases it should have made a resurgence by now!?!?

Corsair 600T with white exterior, black interior, white motherboard with gray or black slots & heatsinks, white RAM, white tubing, black power cables, GPU, and PSU. Would be pretty sick. I would call her Grayscale.

Anybody know anyone who can custom manufacture a motherboard?

Zubasa · Dec 13, 2011

pantherx12 said:
Why do Sapphire make pretty nice looking graphics cards but make damn ugly motherboards?

Doesn't make sense.

Also, no sound card/regular expansion slots at all?

Cmon at-least chuck one in!

Although if all 6 pci-e slots are truely x16 that's quite impressive, could they all run at that speed?

Could be handy for a folder I guess In that case.

What stops you from putting a sound card/raid controller in an x16 slot?
Most sound cards/ etc are pci-e these days.

loleafidas · Dec 13, 2011

Zubasa said:
What stops you from putting a sound card/raid controller in an x16 slot?
Most sound cards/ etc are pci-e these days.

I guess that he loves his 1st PCI Soundcard so much n dun want 2 replace it by PCIE Soundcard, so ...

FreedomEclipse · Dec 13, 2011

loleafidas said:
I guess that he loves his 1st PCI Soundcard so much n dun want 2 replace it by PCIE Soundcard, so ...

thats a PCI-E slot actually

pantherx12 · Dec 13, 2011

Zubasa said:
What stops you from putting a sound card/raid controller in an x16 slot?
Most sound cards/ etc are pci-e these days.

What a massive waste of bandwidth, a sound card doesn't need pci-e : /

DanishDevil · Dec 13, 2011

PCI offers 133MB/s of bandwidth.
PCI-Ex1 offers 250MB/s of bandwidth.

By offering all PCI-E slots, a motherboard can support more current generation stuff. Why would you cause such a fuss buying a $60 PCI-Ex1 sound card when you're spending money on a 990FX board?

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