Sapphire Pure Black P67 Hydra @ Phoronix

Sapphire has been doing a great job at branching out and exploring new ways to extend their brand, which may not always involve AMD.  Case in point, Intel chipset enabled motherboards.

On paper this board looked great but as we indicated in our review of the Sapphire Pure Black P67 we had vdroop issues that caused stability issues under overclocking.  Its still not a bad board and plays some nice music when it first boots up.

When talking about Sapphire Technology on Phoronix it is usually about their vast selection of Radeon graphics cards for which they are very well known and are one of AMD's premiere AIB partners. Recently, they have also expanded to offer a limited selection of high-end AMD and Intel motherboards. Being from Sapphire, these motherboards are not some budget motherboards with nothing to separate them from its competitors, but are rather well designed and very innovative boards. As the first Sapphire motherboard being reviewed under Linux at Phoronix, we are looking at their interesting Sandy Bridge offering: the Sapphire Pure Black P67 Hydra.

They go on to talk about how the Lucid Hydra isn't supported under Linux which is rather unfortunate especially considering that you also have to install the Lucid driver to make it work under Windows as well.

The Lucid concept is great but it might take some time before people figure out how to use it, and use it well.  

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