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Sapphire PURE Innovation 780V Motherboard Review

Author: Dennis Garcia

Time for the benchmarks!

Sapphire PURE Innovation 780V
AMD Phenom 9850+ Black Edition Quad Core (2.5Ghz) 4MB L2 Cache
OEM Cooler
2x Mushkin PH2-6400 DDR2 (5-4-4-12) 2gig
VisionTek 3870 PCI Express
Western Digital Raptor X 150GB SerialATA 10000RPM
LG 20x Super Multi GSA-H55L
Hiper HPU-4S730 730w power supply
Window Vista SP1

DFI LanParty Jr 790GX M2RS
AMD Phenom 9850+ Black Edition Quad Core (2.5Ghz) 4MB L2 Cache
CoolerMaster Hyper 212
2x Mushkin PH2-6400 DDR2 (5-4-4-12) 2gig
VisionTek 3870 PCI Express
Western Digital Raptor X 150GB SerialATA 10000RPM
LG 20x Super Multi GSA-H55L
Hiper HPU-4S730 730w power supply
Window Vista SP1

Sandra is a software collection of synthetic benchmarks that will give us a basic idea as to what a system is capable of. It should be noted that SiSoft numbers change depending on what version you have installed; these were recorded using Sandra Pro Business Version 2008.1.13.12

Synthetic performance never really tells the entire story but is a good benchmark of what the system "could" do under the right conditions. In terms of synthetic performance you’ll be hard pressed to determine the differences between our 2 systems. Given that we are using the same processor and memory the differences here will be minimal, in fact if there were any changes that would be cause for alarm.