Testseek.com have collected 23 expert reviews of the Sapphire Pure Black 990FX and the average rating is 78%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Sapphire Pure Black 990FX.
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23 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Great new bios implementation, extremely stable, overclocks great, fully loaded, impressive PCB layout,
only a quick start guide. no printed user manual, Bundle could be better for such a high grade product, Kitguru says: If you are in the market for a new 990FX motherboard, then this is as good as we have seen, Rating: 9.0, Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1
Over the last year we have been on hand to review many of Sapphire's motherboard range for both Intel and AMD platforms. While a relatively minor player in this specific sector, their engineering quality has always proven exemplary.The Pure Black 990FX Mo...
It has been interesting to watch Sapphires boards evolve over the last year or so as they began to target the likes of ASRock, ASUS, Gigabyte and MSI who have been producing enthusiast based boards for some time now. The evolution has been very fast a...
Overall, the Sapphire Pure Black 990FX is a nice board. Its most appealing feature is the numerous connectivity options. It offers a total of ten SATA III connections, of which one is eSATA at the back, so there is the ability for building a large redunda...
Reviewing motherboards can be exciting but sometimes frustrating, especially when you run into instability issues or overclocking problems. And while Sapphire is a relative newcomer in the motherboard arena when compared to some other manufacturers, we...
Excellent Layout of Commonly Used Components, Excellent Build Quality, Excellent Heatsink Cooling on All Major Components, Nine SATA III Connectors, Dual Gigabit LAN, Dual BIOS, Excellent Performance, Extremely Stable, Onboard Bluetooth, 7.1 Surround Sound With Digital Out, Included USB 3.0 Adapter Fits In 3.5" Drive Space,
Excessive VDroop Neccessitates Higher Voltages for OC, No Load Line Calibration Adjustment, Voltage Sensor Highly Inaccurate With Included and Aftermarket Software, Included Bundle and Documentation Should Be More Complete, Included TRIXX Software Is Not Black Edition Ready, Placement of Voltage Reading Ports Leaves Them Basically Unusable, No Profiles Available In BIOS For One Click Profile Chan
The Sapphire Pure Black 990FX is a mixed bag, to say the least. It goes far and above in some critical aspects, while managing to completely fall flat in some very basic aspects. It seemed like for every “wow”, there was a “what do you mean there is no...
Impressive performance, Good Bios, Decent feature list
A bit pricey
Just one glance at the Sapphire Pure Black FX990 and you can see that it follows the strict design and layout of other recent Sapphire motherboards. But there's nothing necessarily wrong with that - if it ain't broke, why fix it? Dominating the board are ...
Great looks, Great board layout, 6 x PCIe slots for Trifire, Hybrid BIOS, Bluetooth 2.1 EDR...
Lack of LLC, Northbridge runs warm, Some BIOS settings don't translate to actual readings...
Taking a look or relook and evaluation of the AMD 990/950 chipset motherboards has been an interesting experience. CPU dies shrink and transistor density have gone into the billions with ever lessening voltage to send the on/off signals to all of them...
