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Hardware Sapphire Pure Black P67 Hydra Review

Discussion in 'Article Discussion' started by arcticstoat, 3 Aug 2011.

  1. arcticstoat

    arcticstoat Minimodder

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  2. Xir

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    Wow...
    a very dissappointing show, especially at that pricepoint
     
  3. Paradigm Shifter

    Paradigm Shifter de nihilo nihil fit

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    The idea to have the onboard reset button act as a HDD activity indicator is novel, and good, IMO. I like knowing what my HDD is doing, even if I've got the system out on the bench. Pity about the rest of it.
     
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    [ZiiP] NaloaC Multimodder

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    POST code readout is nothing new. Always a nice feature though, helped me with several installation issues with my EVGA x58 SLI LE board.
     
  5. tozsam

    tozsam What's a Dremel?

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    but a post code readout that transforms into a CPU temp readout is, as far as I know, unique
     
  6. Waynio

    Waynio Relaxing

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    Well, they messed up calling it pure black, the blue bits should be dark grey or black & there should be no red sata ports :hehe:.
     
  7. DeX

    DeX Mube Codder

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    What are the two 6Gb/s SATA controllers and what explains their difference in performance?
     
  8. Jipa

    Jipa Avoiding the "I guess.." since 2004

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    Nah I've had one for ages on one of my motherboards... Or two.
     
  9. b1candy

    b1candy What's a Dremel?

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    So you didn't test the Hydra software or the results for multiple GPU slots occupied, and the board came essentially last in all the benchmarks, and it STILL GOT 62%? What does a motherboard manufacturer have to do to get a sub 50% score? Take a dump in the review box?

    It's hard to take these numbers seriously, if everything gets 60%+. 50% should be average, and it should be the standard. 80% should be a golden standard, and 90%+ for board of the year. What I'm going to do from now on is take 50 marks off of every score I read at bit-tech, and that's the result out of 50. So in reality, this board gets 12/50, or 24%. That score tells me it's a board to avoid. 62% gives out the wrong message, or it's to not discourage Sapphire from providing bit-tech with review samples.
     
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    Biostar had a great P45 board that could do this trick a few years ago.
     
  11. Farfalho

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    Sincerely, back in the AM2 and AM2+ days Sapphire had very neat motherboards, a white pcb and nice colours but in specs weren't something awesome, quite plain and in the middle. I've loved their looks but settling for a motherboard only for its looks is a dumb thing to do.

    I was hoping something better, really, quite a let down but if Sapphire is changing their mentality to create worthy motherboards then go ahead, would love some white pcb love with great capabilities.

    I think you mean LGA1155 their, after all it's a Z68 chipset not a LGA1156 chipset (P55 or H55)
     
  12. GiantKiwi

    GiantKiwi What's a Dremel?

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    Fugly board.
     
  13. Claave

    Claave You Rebel scum

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    Scores...
    The thing is, we don't look at many average boards - ones with no heatsinks that don't overclock and don't have any fancy features. This board does have some nice additions and overclocked reasonably well (if not fantastically). It's therefore definitely a bit above the bog-standard 50 per cent mark.

    We can certainly see your point - if you have a score scale, use the whole range of it - but we're not going to waste everyone's time testing and reviewing these non-overclocking basic boards just to prove the point.

    Hope that helps!
     
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    KayinBlack Unrepentant Savage

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    A second thought on the Lucid Hydra...

    Think of it instead as a really bloody good alternative to the NF200 chip. Then, it gives you three PCI-E x16s that ARE x16s on P67. Now it's a nice thing. Not a really great thing, but a nice thing.

    (spoken from someone that got a Hydra board to run two cards and a RAID controller on P55.)
     
  15. geebles

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    Uhh, no. Its a P67 Board (so sandy bridge) therefore LGA1156. Did you read the article? Or even the title!?
     
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    Fingers66 Kiwi in London

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    Got mixed up of all the socket, not quite the intel fan but trying to keep the news. And yes, I read the article and the title, how on earth would I quote something I believed it was wrong from a whole pile of words?!

    After a day's work and hour, I couldn't even remember a single thing, not even what I wrote in here, maybe entered in auto-pilot
     
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