"AMD released their A10 5800K at the beginning of October and we analysed the processor when paired up with Asus F2A85-V Pro and Gigabyte F2A85X-UP4 motherboards. Sapphire recently sent us their PURE Platinum A85XT motherboard which incorporates a dual BIOS switch, onboard mSATA slot, 2 way Crossfire support and seven SATA 6 GB/s ports. On paper it ticks the right boxes, but can Sapphire offer a serious challenge to market leaders Gigabyte and ASUS?
We have reviewed almost all of Sapphire’s motherboards in the last 2 years and there is no doubting their high grade engineering standards. If we had a single issue with the products however it would be their BIOS development, which at times has been flaky, especially when dealing with the fastest DDR3 memory.
First let us have a quick recap of the AMD A10 5800K processor. The A10 5800K is a 32nm CoC with four Piledriver cores and a Cayman GPU."
