Sapphire Pure Black X58 review

An Intel board from the former AMD purists

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Sapphire Pure Black X58
An Intel board from the former AMD purists.

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The stock performance of the Pure Black X58 is impressive when you put it up against a board from mainboard stalwarts Asus. It even manages a slight win in the gaming benchmark.

Unfortunately it's when you start trying to push the board to its limits that Asus' greater experience in the industry shows. The overclocking performance of the Sapphire board lags a fair way behind the Asus P6X58D-E, itself a much cheaper board.

CPU rendering performance

Sapphire pure black x58 - benchmarks

Video encoding performance

Sapphire pure black x58 - benchmarks

Gaming performance

Sapphire pure black x58 - benchmarks

Overclocking performance

Sapphire pure black x58 - benchmarks

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