Sapphire Announces Pure Platinum Z68 mainboard
SAPPHIRE Technology just introduced a new mainboard developed to support the latest SandyBridge LGA1155 family of CPUs from Intel. The SAPPHIRE Pure Platinum Z68 is a full ATX sized board that supports the 2nd Generation Intel SandyBridge i3 / i5 / i7 processor family using socket LGA1155. Four dual channel memory sockets are provided, supporting up to 16GB of DDR3 memory with current technology, and capable of supporting up to 32GB when suitable modules become available. There two USB 3.0 ports and four USB 2.0 ports (plus 8 on headers), as well as Gigabit LAN and Bluetooth connectivity with EDR (enhanced data rate). It has four SATA II 3G ports, and two SATA III 6G ports (+ two more on a header) and supports Intel Rapid Storage technology as well as RAID 1, 0, 5 and 10. Four Video output options are provided for the on-chip graphics output of the CPU VGA, DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort – of which any pair can be used simultaneously. The HDMI 1.4a port supports both video and audio. The rear panel has the standard I/O configuration for the on board 8-channel HD 7.1 Audio as well as SPDIF. Pretty sweet looking board and is listed under part number PT-CI7S33Z68 in case you are looking for it.
Sapphire Pure Platinum Z68 wiht Intel Z68 Express Chipset enables Maximum Tuning and Performance Flexibility for 2nd generation Intel Core processor. The board had many state of the art features such as on-board USB3.0, four sets of SATA III as well as SATA II ports, four dual channel DDR3 memory slots and 3 Gen2 (x8/x8/x4) PCI-Express expansion slots as well as a host of peripheral connections and on-board 8-channel audio. The SAPPHIRE Pure Platinum Z68 has many features to support overclocking. The power sections are highly stable, featuring solid capacitors and SAPPHIRE Diamond Black chokes. BIOS options help optimize settings and SAPPHIRE TriXX gives easy access to performance tuning and status monitoring. With Lucid Virtu supports Dynamic Switching Graphics can enjoy 3D/Transcoding performance and also with power saving.
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