Sapphire Readies Pure CrossfireX 890GX Motherboard

btarunr · May 10, 2010, 04:22 PM

Sapphire is back to its vocation of being a motherboard vendor, the popular ATI Radeon board partner designed a new socket AM3 motherboard based on the new AMD 890GX + SB850 chipset, dubbed the Sapphire Pure CrossfireX 890GX. The board is built on the ATX form-factor, though comes with only four expansion slots spaced out. The AM3 CPU is powered by a 10-phase VRM, it is wired to four DDR3 DIMM slots for dual-channel memory. The AMD 890GX northbridge is cooled by a large heatsink which shares its heat with one of the VRM heatsinks. The ATI Radeon HD 4290 IGP is assisted by 128 MB of SidePort memory apart from sharing the system memory.

Out of the four expansion slots, two are PCI-Express 2.0 x16 (electrical x8 when both are populated) with some sort of manual PCI-E lane switching, and one each of PCI-E x1 and PCI. The SB850 southbridge gives out six SATA 6 Gb/s internal ports, while an additional controller provides an IDE connector (for two IDE devices). The eSATA port is driven by manually connecting it with one of the internal ports. Connectivity includes 8 channel audio with optical and coaxial SPDIF, USB 3.0, and display connectivity, which includes DVI, D-Sub, and HDMI with 7.1 channel audio. Available soon, Sapphire is yet to disclose its price.

InnocentCriminal · May 10, 2010, 04:27 PM

I was part expecting a white PCB... like the good ol' days.

(FIH) The Don · May 10, 2010, 04:33 PM

was about to say the same ^^

Chomes · May 10, 2010, 04:38 PM

I think this part is wrong in my opinion:
Out of the four expansion slots, two are PCI-Express 2.0 x16 (electrical x8 when both are populated) with some sort of manual PCI-E lane switching, and one each of PCI-E x1 and PCI.

What I see in the picture is :
2 PCI-Express 2.0 x16
1 PCI-E X1
1 PCI
AND
1 MINI PCI-E like a laptop, for wireless cards, tv tuners,...

a_ump · May 10, 2010, 04:47 PM

yea...looks wise that mobo is ugly as balls. color scheme reminds me of legos. shoulda made the expansion slots all yellow like the dimm slots.

Hunt3r · May 10, 2010, 04:48 PM

Sapphire investing in motherboard?
very good

(FIH) The Don · May 10, 2010, 04:55 PM

sapphire has been making mb for many many years

Lionheart · May 10, 2010, 04:55 PM

Sapphire makes motherboards

(FIH) The Don · May 10, 2010, 05:02 PM

Ya REALLY

Yukikaze · May 10, 2010, 05:47 PM

If it were white, I'd buy one just to have one.

Been looking for one of their white boards for an oldie build and couldn't find a single one of them.

KieranD · May 10, 2010, 05:54 PM

I personally had the Sapphire 790GX it was a DDR2 board as it was AM2+ socket. It was alright was the worlds best clocker pretty much a decent value board. Ended up going with this ASUS in my specs and its a much better.

LOOKS exactly like the 790GX.

eva2000 · May 10, 2010, 06:25 PM

hmmm only worry would be quality of bios support

theonedub · May 10, 2010, 06:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chomes

I think this part is wrong in my opinion:
Out of the four expansion slots, two are PCI-Express 2.0 x16 (electrical x8 when both are populated) with some sort of manual PCI-E lane switching, and one each of PCI-E x1 and PCI.

What I see in the picture is :
2 PCI-Express 2.0 x16
1 PCI-E X1
1 PCI
AND
1 MINI PCI-E like a laptop, for wireless cards, tv tuners,...

Yup, between the PCIe 16 slots there is a x1 slot and what looks to be a mini PCIe slot as well. Maybe a nice place to stick a MiniPCIe SSD perhaps

Yokozuna · May 10, 2010, 07:50 PM

Rebranded Jetway HA-09

I have a Sapphire 780G AM2+ MATX mb in my HTPC. It's a rebranded Jetway mb as well.

TheLostSwede · May 10, 2010, 07:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yokozuna

Rebranded Jetway HA-09

I was just going to say that it was a Jetway board

suraswami · May 10, 2010, 09:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yokozuna

Rebranded Jetway HA-09

I have a Sapphire 780G AM2+ MATX mb in my HTPC. It's a rebranded Jetway mb as well.

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheLostSwede

I was just going to say that it was a Jetway board

I was also about to say its a Jetway

Hayder_Master · May 10, 2010, 10:44 PM

great cooling but poor slots, need one more pci-e,and pci, also more sata and e-sata

Quote:

Originally Posted by CHAOS_KILLA

Sapphire makes motherboards

yeah this is not first time

jagd · May 11, 2010, 10:13 AM

Sapphire (and zotac ) subsidiary of pcpartner and pcpartner has long history with mobos.

Quote:

Originally Posted by CHAOS_KILLA

Sapphire makes motherboards

roast · May 11, 2010, 10:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by InnocentCriminal

I was part expecting a white PCB... like the good ol' days.

+1!! I was gutted when Sapphire stopped producing them. I always wanted a white mobo. Maybe they'll start manufacturing them again in the future???

entropy13 · May 11, 2010, 10:59 AM

Sapphire also has an AM3 mini-ITX board (with a green PCB).

WSP · May 11, 2010, 03:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by roast

+1!! I was gutted when Sapphire stopped producing them. I always wanted a white mobo. Maybe they'll start manufacturing them again in the future???

no way you could find a white mobo made by sapphire in these days.
sapphire do not design their own mobo, and that also happens with the bios.dunno with the old sapphire mobos

it's either rebranded Jetway or DFI

like this:

Sapphire PC-AM2RD790 - PURE CrossFireX 790FX:

is a rebranded of DFI Lanparty UT 790FX-M2R (note LANPARTY marking):

Sapphire PI-AM3RS760G:

is a rebranded of Jetway MA3-760GSM (different PCB color, same layout)

SNiiPE_DoGG · May 11, 2010, 03:58 PM

makes sense since DFI is no longer making enthusiast boards, sapphire picked up the back stock.

ToTTenTranz · May 11, 2010, 06:06 PM

The placement for that PCI-Ex 1x is odd to say the least.

What's the point of placing the only PCI-Ex 1x slot next to one of the only places you'll not be able to put anything there (underneath the top 16x slot).

roast · May 11, 2010, 06:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by WSP

no way you could find a white mobo made by sapphire in these days.
sapphire do not design their own mobo, and that also happens with the bios.dunno with the old sapphire mobos

What are you talking about?
I'm talking about in the past, sapphire used to make white-pcb motherboards. I wasnt talking about the new ones.

(FIH) The Don · May 11, 2010, 06:20 PM

that is not a sapphire board, its a old AMD/ATI reference board for reviewers

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May 11, 2010, 03:58 PM	#22
SNiiPE_DoGG Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 442 (0.29/day) Thanks: 87 Thanked 135 Times in 99 Posts System Specs	makes sense since DFI is no longer making enthusiast boards, sapphire picked up the back stock. __________________ [Project] :::Flow::: @ TPU

System Name:	Flow
Processor:	AMD Phenom II 955 BE
Motherboard:	MSI 790fx GD70
Cooling:	Water
Memory:	8gb Crucial Ballistix Tracer Blue ddr3 1600 c8
Video Card:	2 x XFX 6850 - Yet to go under water.
Hard Disk:	Corsair s128
Optical Drive:	External!
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PSU:	Corsair 850HX

May 11, 2010, 06:06 PM	#23
ToTTenTranz Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Porto Posts: 845 (0.63/day) Thanks: 37 Thanked 172 Times in 135 Posts System Specs	The placement for that PCI-Ex 1x is odd to say the least. What's the point of placing the only PCI-Ex 1x slot next to one of the only places you'll not be able to put anything there (underneath the top 16x slot).

Processor:	Phenom II X3 720BE @ 3.3GHz, 4th core unlocked
Motherboard:	Asus M4A78-E
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Video Card:	Gigabyte HD5870 1GB + PhysX/Computing 8800GTS 512MB
Hard Disk:	Intel X25-M 80GB O.S. + WD 500GB Data
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Sound Card:	X-Fi XtremeMusic + Gigaworks SB750 7.1 THX
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May 11, 2010, 06:20 PM	#25
(FIH) The Don Eligible for custom title Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Viking Land Posts: 5,406 (3.92/day) Thanks: 3,101 Thanked 2,962 Times in 1,834 Posts System Specs	that is not a sapphire board, its a old AMD/ATI reference board for reviewers __________________ "there are 2 types of idiots. those who hate the new stuff to justify not being able to upgrade. and those who have no fucking clue about anything" -KieX “So with this new technology my video card will now fart?” -TheMailMan78