http://www.hardwarecanuck...otherboard-review.html
 
Strange late release by Sapphire.... Why even bother ?  It isnt that X58 is dead. If you ask me it still has some kicking left before it is down. This board is just garbage in my opinion for the price

Why do they call it Pure Black? There is blue all over that thing.

You guys need to try thinking outside the box at least once: This is aimed at Sapphire fans that still have AMD and are looking to switch since not everyone has.   X58 isn't dead to people who actually need more than 8 threads.  Stop acting like because you or anyone that doesn't need more than eight threads doesn't need it, then no one else does.

lehpron

You guys need to try thinking outside the box at least once: This is aimed at Sapphire fans that still have AMD and are looking to switch since not everyone has.   X58 isn't dead to people who actually need more than 8 threads.  Stop acting like because you or anyone that doesn't need more than eight threads doesn't need it, then no one else does.

 
Who the hell said X58 was dead? You seem to get into Every Thread and begin to Bash right away. You jump to conclusion without even reading anything. THIS IS A GARBAGE BOARD PERIOD. You could pay less and get another X58 out there that will offer way more than this board. I have an X58 with a 980x and i love it and i will be buying a new motherboard soon and again NO ONE SAID IT WAS DEAD AND NO ONE IS ACTING LIKE ANYTHING.
 
THIS Board makes no sense... Is late to the game and offers NOTHING to anyone. I think you need to back off and take a chill pill because this is the second thread of mine you have crapped on for false reasons and a lack of knowledge.
 
Who would buy a sapphire AMD card... and AMD CPU and decide to buy a new  X58 motherboard ...new ram...new CPU just to have a sapphire motherboard because they decided to come out with one late in the game. That is a very odd thing to say and it makes no sense. THis board is poorly designed and again offers nothing for the price.

Brad_Hawthorne

lehpron
You guys need to try thinking outside the box at least once: This is aimed at Sapphire fans that still have AMD and are looking to switch since not everyone has.   X58 isn't dead to people who actually need more than 8 threads.  Stop acting like because you or anyone that doesn't need more than eight threads doesn't need it, then no one else does.

Have you looked at the PCIe lane configuration this board has? I couldn't imagine too many people would want it if they knew how it compared to other X58 mobos. IMHO, SLI comparability is largely irrelevant. The slot speeds are what I see at issue. Why is it even an X58 mobo with this slot config?

I saw the slot configuration, I maintain that this product simply allows Sapphire not to loose their majority AMD customers when they are tempted to switch to Intel.  Like I said, it really doesn't have to make sense to us why this X58 exists.  
 

basicallyevolve
Who the hell said X58 was dead? You seem to get into Every Thread and begin to Bash right away. You jump to conclusion without even reading anything. THIS IS A GARBAGE BOARD PERIOD. You could pay less and get another X58 out there that will offer way more than this board. I have an X58 with a 980x and i love it and i will be buying a new motherboard soon and again NO ONE SAID IT WAS DEAD AND NO ONE IS ACTING LIKE ANYTHING.

THIS Board makes no sense... Is late to the game and offers NOTHING to anyone. I think you need to back off and take a chill pill because this is the second thread of mine you have crapped on for false reasons and a lack of knowledge.

I don't know what your deal is and I don't care.  I'm not responsible for your assumptions about me or my posts when by your own admission we've only had one other interaction like this.  I'm not the one using all-caps to re-emphasize a point made just 5 replies earlier while asking someone else to back off and take a chill pill.  We're all pretty decent here on the EVGA forums, there is no reason to use this language with anyone.

hahaha
in the review they have two evga gtx 280's for illustration purposes
yes, yes i know, no sli on this board

Looks like MSI...

lehpron

You guys need to try thinking outside the box at least once: This is aimed at Sapphire fans that still have AMD and are looking to switch since not everyone has.   X58 isn't dead to people who actually need more than 8 threads.  Stop acting like because you or anyone that doesn't need more than eight threads doesn't need it, then no one else does.

 
Alright lets start again to show where you jump to conclusions and shat on this thread for no reason and with no data to prove anything except your jiberish and rambling just like the LSI thread.
 
 
# 1  You say X58 isnt dead... NO one here said it was. You jumped to a conclusion and basically typed useless information.
 
#2 you say someone who has an AMD CPU who has waited this long is going to finally drop ship to get this Sapphire board just because sapphire came out with one and that they are die hard sapphire fans... Where is your proof? can you show me ONE person who dropped their AMD platform for this board ?   Then you go on to say that people need more than 8 threads so again... SHow me one person who went from an AMD board  ( people usually go AMD because they think it makes more sense because they dont wanna spend more on intel equipment)  to an X58 Who has an i7 970 or 980/990x .  They in turn are going to buy a sapphire board that is 260 bucks to get nothing for their monies worth and to get a 1 year limited warranty from sapphire? They love sapphire that much that they would rather overpay for a product that offers nothing and to get a 1 year warranty with it? That makes sense..
 
#3 you sit there and say just cause we dont doesnt mean other dont either. I Said i have a 980x and i utilize my 6 cores and 12 threads time to time when i am video editing or using photo Chop.
 
You jumped to conclusion and talk about us acting like something when no one said anything remotely similar to what you claimed or concluded in your delirious post.
 
 
Then you go on to say that it doesnt really need to make sense to us why it even exists in the first place but you immediately jumped to conclusions without facts for why it exists and defended the product by thrashing Mr. X ( who apparently said X58 is dead and no one need more than 8 threads ) . By the way ... When you find him in this thread let us know because i cant seem to find him or her.
 
 
Then you go on to say you dont know what my deal is???
 
What is your deal? you came into this thread with pistols shooting making assumption and then turn and say you are not responsible for my assumptions? You are the one who assumed from the get co here.
 
Then you turn and say we are all pretty decent here and there no reason to use this language with anyone...
 
What language are you talking about ? What was offensive about anything i said? I merely stated facts as i am doing again now which you dont seem to comprehend because your initial post was inadequate to this thread just as your other post in the LSI 9265-8i threads was.
 
Everyone here is on the same page except you for some reason. You pulled out information from god knows where and attacked someone who doesnt even exist on this thread and brought your facts with you without showing proof of it.
 
Kinda like when the 9265 thread right? where you responded when you dont even own a raid card? I own a 9260-8i and 8 solid state drives and i know how it performs.... computurd has owned 20 different raid cards and every single SSD on the market and talks about facts and knows that the 9260-8i is a thing of beauty along with others who own it and you are talking about SSD review advertising for them...
 
IM sorry? do you own a 9260-8i ? Do you know what another core on the 9260-8i + 512 more ram going from 512mb DDRII to 1GB DDRIII will do for a raid card? Can you show me another raid card on the market that will do 460 k IOPS? Can you show me a raid card with a dual core processor with 1gb DDRIII Ram to back up your claim of TheSSDreview advertising false information for LSI? Have you tested 20 different raid cards like computurd and every single ssd on the market ? Does LSI or SSD companies send you 8 cards for free to test on raid cards so you can give the public information on their SSD's? He isnt a one sided man. He gets products he tests them and he gives you the information.
 
http://www.xtremesystems....howthread.php?t=267602
 
When the Kingpin talks about EVGA and uses an EVGA board to smash records and turns around and says go with EVGA does he have every right to? If EVGA came out saying they designed a 6way SLI board  for the SR-2 and the kingpin turned and said hell yeah that product is going to rock... are you going to turn around and tell the Kingpin he is jumping to conclusions and is giving false information? HEll no. It is his given right from  his experience. He has tested every board out there and he knows what he is doing.

I consider Computurd  the Kingpin of Raid cards. He has done his homework and knows what he is doing.
 
I will wait for your proof and reasons for you to justify the things you typed because i know you'll have something to say.

Would Sapphire fans be so patriotic that they would buy this stupid board over much better boards from another vendor??  If that's the market Sapphire is going after they sure don't put much faith in the inteligence of their "fans".  No SLI on an enthusiast X58 board is nothing short of ghey....as is the stupid slot configuration.
 
I could care less that this is a late offering X58 board because IMO X58 isn't dead yet.  However if you are going to offer a board this late, then I would think you might want to offer features that at least match existing boards if not add some design improvements of your own....that's just me though.  GO SAPPHIRE!

burning_kittins

I understand some people still use IDE DVD drives but come on.

 
Seriously, there is no reasoning that makes sense to me to still be using IDE anything. A DVD drive costs all of $15. It's dead weight infrastructure on a modern mobo.