Sapphire P67 Pure Black Hydra Motherboard Review @ Rage3D.com

***Lupine*** · Jun 6, 2011, 12:07 PM

Rage3D examines Sapphire's new P67 Pure Black Hydra mainboard, performance testing Intel's Sandy Bridge against AMD's Phenom II and Intel's own Core i7 900 series. Check out this enthusiast level motherboard's features, overclocking and performance analysis to see why AMD's FX-series is going to have to move mountains to get on top of the performance heap.

Sapphire P67 Pure Black Hydra Motherboard Review @ Rage3D.com

Mangler · Jun 6, 2011, 01:32 PM

It must be a really bad board since the 920 is so competitive with it in the gaming performance section, an oc:d 920 should not have a higher minimum framerate than a overclocked 2600k with the same gpu.

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Jun 6, 2011, 01:32 PM	#2
Mangler PC Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 21,687	It must be a really bad board since the 920 is so competitive with it in the gaming performance section, an oc:d 920 should not have a higher minimum framerate than a overclocked 2600k with the same gpu.

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