Sapphire is normally known for its awesome ATI video cards, but it has expanded into making enthusiast-class motherboards. We have a look at the company's latest board, the PURE CrossFire PC-AM2RD580 and find out whether it's worth your money. Read on to find out how we got on with it.
September 23, 2006 | 19:09ECS' KA3 MVP is the first socket AM2 motherboard to support ATI's CrossFire technology. It's based on the solid CrossFire Xpress 3200 chipset with the all-new SB600 southbridge. Does its attractive price make the board a tempting buy for an enthusiast looking to run CrossFire? We have the answers for you here...
July 13, 2006 | 20:56Well-known as a gamer's best friend, AMD chips have dominated the enthusiast sector for quite a while now. AMD is now moving the Athlon 64 to a new platform, called AM2, with a new line of chips and a DDR2 memory controller. How do the new chips line up against the old - and against Intel's Core Duo?
May 23, 2006 | 11:25Along with the launch of AMD's AM2 platform today, NVIDIA is launching the successor to nForce 4 - cunningly name nForce 5. The 500-series has several variants for high-end, mid-range and mainstream. We get down and dirty with the featureset ahead of an AM2 motherboard group test.
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