Pictures of Sapphire's 790FX board

[mcbalaban]

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

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.

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

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

[Zytek_Fan]

Sapphire should make White or red boards

Yeah, but they couldn't OC worth a .

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

[naokaji]

Yeah, but they couldn't OC worth a .

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

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

[Jamesrt2004]

Why no on-board sound ??

[happychappy]

Why no on-board sound ??

I expect that itll be a karajan audio module

[jimmyz]

I expect that itll be a karajan audio module

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

[Jamesrt2004]

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

cheers

[mcbalaban]

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

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

[v0dka]

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

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.