Sapphire has just released their venture into Llano with the Sapphire Pure Platinum A75 Motherboard. The Platinum A75 offers all of the premium niceties that can be found with AMD's Lynx platform. First, there is the top tier A75 Hudson-D3 FCH chipset. This has an FM1 socket for the latest Llano APU chips. There is support for up to 16GB of 800/1033/1333/1600/1866 MHz speed DDR3 memory. This chipset offers exceptional connectivity as you get five SATA3 ports, one 16x PCI-E, two 1x PCI-E, one 4x PCI-E, two 32-bit PCI, and four USB 3.0 ports. Because the APU is a CPU/GPU combination, for video connectivity, there is an HDMI, DVI, and DisplayPort available.
With the mass influx of competitions lately, it seems that more and more manufacturers are keen to get involved by assisting us. This time NZXT have provided some prizes for our lucky readers based in the UK and North America. We have looked at a few NZXT products as of late, and we want to show you with the help of NZXT why they are so great. With this in mind, NZXT have selected a few of their latest and greatest products to offer to our valued readers.
Less than 5 days left for the conclusion of our 3rd July lucky giveaway and so if you are into benchmarking, or you just need one of the best system information products in the market then you can still be amongst the 10 lucky winners who will receive their own AIDA64 Extreme license by FinalWire.
Case, Cooling and Power
Anvil Pro, as it has come to be known, is an 'all inclusive' storage utility that is definitely going to strike gold in the storage community. Its ability to test transfer speeds as well as IOPS is as impressive as are the controls that let the user tweak and adjust to find just the right mix in their testing medium. Never before have we had a single benchmark that tests transfer speeds as well as IOPS, the IOPS tests being fully configurable with preset testing scenarios for read, write and mixed IO. For the manufacturer, a simple 0Fill test will display the common RAW data tests shown in specifications whereas, for the hard core enthusiast, we can slide the bar over all the way and see how the SSD reacts to completely incompressible data samples.
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