CPU: AMD Athlon 64 for Socket 939
Chipset: ATI Radeon Xpress 200P (RX482 + SB450)
HyperTransport bus: 1 GHz
Clock generator frequency: 200-440MHz (with 1MHz increment)
Overclocking friendly functions:
* Independently adjustable PCI Express bus frequency;
* Adjustable CPU frequency multiplier;
* Adjustable Vcore, Vchipset, Vmem and voltages of HyperTransport and PCI Express buses
Memory: 4 DDR DIMM slots for dual-channel DDR400 SDRAM
PCI Express slots: 1 x PCI Express x16
2 x PCI Express x1
PCI expansion slots: 2
USB 2.0 ports: 8 (4 – on the rear panel)
IEEE1394 ports: 2 (1 – on the rear panel, by VIA VT6307 controller)
ATA-100/133: 2 ATA-133 channels (in the chipset)
Serial ATA: 4 Serial ATA-150 channels (with RAID support in the chipset);
2 Serial ATA-300 channels (with RAID support in Silicon Image Sil3132 controller)
ATA RAID support: RAID 0, 1 in the chipset;
RAID 0, 1 in Silicon Image Sil3132 controller
Integrated sound: 8-channel AC97 Realtek ALC880 codec
Integrated LAN: Gigabit Ethernet (in Marvell 88E8052 controller)
Additional features: None
BIOS: Phoenix-AwardBIOS v6.00PG
Form-factor: ATX, 305mm x 244mm
In case our controller worked as a regular Serial ATA controller the results were as follows:
In RAID 0 mode we obtained the following results:
During our practical tests the sound system of the Sapphire PURE Innovation PI-A9RX480 mainboard received the following scores:
Moreover, the integrated sound of Sapphire PURE Innovation PI-A9RX480 is excellent not only in its analog implementation. During our test session we also noticed that the CPU utilization remained really low during sound playback. Here are the results obtained in 3DMark03 sound test, for instance:
Let’s see how fast this controller is compared with an integrated network controller of NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra chipset. Here we used NTttcp utility from Microsoft Windows NT DDK. To make it all fair, we disabled NVIDIA Firewall 2.0, because it may lay additional workload on the CPU. Here are the obtained results:
PCB Design :
The PCB design of Sapphire PURE Innovation PI-A9RX480 mainboard is also as ambiguous as its features. In the first place I should definitely say a few great words about the exterior looks of this product. The mainboard manufacturers have always tried to surprise us with the PCB colors of their solutions. However, we have never come a cross a mainboard of the same color as Sapphire PURE Innovation PI-A9RX480. So, Sapphire definitely wins a point for highly original and unique color design and creativity. Their Sapphire PURE Innovation PI-A9RX480 is white.
All the notes on the PCB are made in red, and the connectors and slots on the PCB are red, too. So, even the color of the board indicates what camp it belongs to: ATI. The bottom side of the PCB is as patriotic as its front: it is white with a big red logo pf the manufacturers.
So, Sapphire PURE Innovation PI-A9RX480 looks very nice when it is working.
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fonte: X-Bit Labs ( se kiserem ver a continuação, http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mainbo ... 00p_9.html)
