Pictures of Sapphire's 790FX board

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Originally Posted by xVeinx

It could be simply a move to save development costs. Sapphire is a fairly small outfit....

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Sapphire is just a front for PC Partner and that is NOT a small outfit. Among other things Sapphire makes (and has been making) ALL the "made by ATI" video boards and ALL the ATI reference design motherboards. Just take a look at the www.sapphiretech.com front page and you will see the links to the only two remnants of the ATI brand (ATI Japan and ATI Professional Workstation Graphics). These two brands are still selling the "Made by ATI" cards, but now it is clear that they are made by Sapphire.

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Originally Posted by tictac

that mean we can flash oskar wu bios? wow... if it sell cheaper than dfi.... might be worth to buy it then :D

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Hmmm... I wish... In Japan, Sapphire boards are usually the MOST expensive. (DFI - JPY22.000, Sapphire equivalent JPY30.000) :(

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Originally Posted by Kingcarcas

Sapphire should make White or red boards :yepp:

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Yeah, but they couldn't OC worth a :banana::banana::banana::banana:.

I like the colour scheme better for the Sapphire for some reason, and since it's basically the DFI board, it'll be awesome :D

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Originally Posted by Zytek_Fan

Yeah, but they couldn't OC worth a :banana::banana::banana::banana:.

I like the colour scheme better for the Sapphire for some reason, and since it's basically the DFI board, it'll be awesome :D

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the biggest problem sapphire boards had in the past was that they where too hard to find in retail....

Why no on-board sound :(??

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Originally Posted by Jamesrt2004

Why no on-board sound :(??

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I expect that itll be a karajan audio module

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Originally Posted by happychappy

I expect that itll be a karajan audio module

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yep, same as the p35, you can see the port where it plugs in between the pair of pci slots.

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Originally Posted by jimmyz

yep, same as the p35, you can see the port where it plugs in between the pair of pci slots.

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cheers :)

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Originally Posted by jimmyz

yep, same as the p35, you can see the port where it plugs in between the pair of pci slots.

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I don't think th ething between the PCI slots is a Karajan dock as the print on the PCB says "front audio"...:rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Tony

yup guys its built by DFI for Sapphire, exact same board just different colors to some components.

Early whispers are that this board is a monster overclocker ;)

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With K8 cpu's I presume? I bet a Black Edition A64 would do well on this board.

It looks like a good product, but it needs a high performing CPU to go with it dont you think? Let's hope Phenom will go up with leaps like most AMD cpu's in the past.