Sapphire Pure Black P67 Hydra Motherboard - LGA1155 Retail

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Just notice this new motherboard on overclockers website...

I never heard of a sapphire motherboard before :eek:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-008-SP&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1906

Designed to support the latest Intel SandyBridge processors, the SAPPHIRE Pure Black P67 Hydra combines the Intel P67 chipset with the Lucid Hydra chip to allow a mix of graphics configurations to be used The board had many state of the art features such as on-board USB3.0, two sets of SATA III as well as SATA II ports, four dual channel DDR3 memory slots and 3 Gen2 (x16/x8/x8) and one Gen1 (x4) PCI-Express expansion slots as well as a host of peripheral connections and on-board 8-channel audio. The SAPPHIRE Pure Black P67 Hydra has many features to support ‘overclocking’. The power sections are highly stable, featuring solid capacitors and SAPPHIRE Diamond Black chokes. BIOS options help optimize settings and SAPPHIRE TriXX gives easy access to performance tuning and status monitoring.

- CPU: Support Intel LGA1155: Intel Core i7 /i5 / i3 series processors
- Chipset: Intel® P67 Express Chipset
- BIOS: AMI BIOS, 16Mb Flash ROM
- Memory: 2 Channel DDR3, 4 slots 240-pin DDR3 800/1066/1333/1600+ non-ECC ,un-buffered memory
16 GB Max.
- Expansion Slots: 4 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots, 2 x 32-bit PCI slots
- Storage: 7 x Serial ATA III 6Gb/s connectors
- Supports HDDs with RAID 0, 1,5,10 functions
- Audio: Realtek ALC892 HD Audio CODEC with 8-Channel
- Ethernet: LAN Marvell 88E8057 PCI-Express Gigabit LAN
- Rear Panel I / O: 8 x USB 2.0 port, 2 x USB 3.0 port, 1 x 1394a port, 1 x SPDIF Coaxial OUT, 1 x Audio I / O ports, 1 x SPDIF Optical Out, 1 x Supporting Bluetooth® 2.1 + EDR by Atheros AR3011, 1 x e-SATA port, PS/2 KB/MS combo port
- Form Factor: ATX, Size 12" x 9.6"
- OS support: Windows Vista (32/64) bit, Windows 7 (32/64) bit
 
That Lucid Hydra chip is the interesting factor for me about this board, I would like to see this put to use and reviewed.
 
The other reason Sapphire are moving up in the motherboard game is because half of Evga's motherboard team moved to them (sometime last year).
 
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