Sapphire, mainboard Athlon per videogamer

Milano – Si chiama Pure Innovation la nuova linea di schede madri per processori AMD desktop che Sapphire propone agli appassionati di videogiochi e ai power user in genere.

Il primo modello di Pure Innovation, il PI-A9RX480, supporta le CPU Sempron e Athlon 64 standard, FX e X2 (dual-core). Basata sui nuovi chipset ATI Express-200 e sul southbridge SB450, la nuova scheda madre supporta fino ad un massimo di 4 GB di memoria DDR400 Dual Channel e include uno slot PCI-Express x16, due slot PCI-Express x1 e due slot PCI aggiuntivi. La gamma di opzioni di comunicazione integrate comprende un adattatore Gigabit LAN e Firewire, otto porte USB 2.0 e una scheda audio integrata a 6 canali Azalia 7.1 ad alta definizione. Sono poi presenti controller IDE, SATA-I e SATA-II per la connessione ad hard disk e altre memorie di massa.

Sotto il profilo del design, la scheda si presenta di colorazione bianca con i vari connettori (slot PCI, socket IDE e DIMM, ecc.) di colore rosso.

Di seguito le specifiche tecniche del prodotto.

On-Board Standard I/O
– PS2 Keyboard connector
– PS2 Mouse connector
– RJ45 Gigabit LAN port
– HD Audio port
– One floppy port
– Two IDE ports supporting up to 4 ATA133 HDDs
– Eight SATA ports
– SPDIF-IN & SPDIF-OUT header
– One front panel sound header

USB Ports
– Eight USB 2.0 ports (four port via two headers)
– Support USB2.0 feature on Windows 2000 SP4 and Windows XP SP1 or later version

On-board LAN
– Connect PCI Express 1-lane
– Supports 10/100/1000 M/bs operation
– Support Wake-On-Lan function for remote wake up

PCI Express Graphics Interface
– One 16-lane (x16) PCI Express port intended for Graphics attach, Fully compliant to PCI Express Base Specification revision 1.0a
– A base PCI Express frequency of 2.5GB/s only.

PCI Express I/O Ports
– Full PCI Express 1.0a compliant
– Supports 2.5GB/s bandwidth in each direction per x1 lane

Power Management
– Supports SMM, APM and ACPI
– Break switch for instant suspend/resume on system operations
– Energy star “Green PC” compliant
– Hardware monitoring circuit is supported, provide voltage, fan speed, monitoring
– Supports suspend-to-RAM (STR)

HD audio port
– 8 channel HD audio output (Realtek ALC880)
– Front Panel Audio header ready

IEEE1394
– Integrated 400Mbit/s 2 port PHY
– Two IEEE1394 ports (one port via header) (optional)

Serial ATA-I controller
– Data transfer rates of 150MB/s
– Two controller Four SATA port support IDE or Raid mode

Serial ATA-II controller
– Data transfer rates of 300MB/s
– Two SATA-II ports support IDE or Raid 0/1 mode

PCI Slots
– Two PCI bus master slots ver 2.2 compliant