Gibbo: Sapphire Pure Crossfire PC-A9RD580

subxero · 4 Apr 2006 at 19:24

Gibbo, any chance of Ocuk getting these in, seen a few of these around on the interweb but at a quite high price which I don't mind paying for, just wondering

Cheers

Dr Who · 5 Apr 2006 at 11:53

I have been asking about this one for the last month

no replies as yet

subxero · 6 Apr 2006 at 11:59

Dr Who said:
I have been asking about this one for the last month

no replies as yet

Read a few reviews on this board, looks very promising. Currently have the Sapphire Pure Innovaton which is a cracking board. Need some new memory though

Mr Paul · 6 Apr 2006 at 12:11

Still has the ATI south bridge, I'm waiting for the DFI RD580 which has the better ULI south bridge....

subxero · 7 Apr 2006 at 13:55

That southbridge isn't as bad as everybody makes out, I have that very same one in my Sapphire Pure Innovation, and USB throughput is a littke slower, but thats about it, I don't see it to be a huge issue.

KELTICKNIGHT · 9 Apr 2006 at 18:27

subxero said:
That southbridge isn't as bad as everybody makes out, I have that very same one in my Sapphire Pure Innovation, and USB throughput is a littke slower, but thats about it, I don't see it to be a huge issue.

so are you saying this mobo is same

Sapphire PURE Advantage CrossFire Radeon Xpress 200P CrossFire (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-003-SP)

subxero · 9 Apr 2006 at 19:02

KELTICKNIGHT said:
so are you saying this mobo is same

Sapphire PURE Advantage CrossFire Radeon Xpress 200P CrossFire (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-003-SP)

Not exactly, this other board has the RD580 northbridge, and 32 pcie lanes, allround better motherboard

Gibbo · 12 Apr 2006 at 00:23

Hi there

We have them on order, but lots of confusion over pricing, if I get price I want these will be sub £100 all in.......but Sapphire may have made a boo boo.....

Dr Who · 12 Apr 2006 at 07:00

They are £135 elsewhere...

so below that is a good price

Dr Who · 12 Apr 2006 at 11:56

Gibbo

Local store here have quoted me cyp£85+vat so that would be about £100+vat in uk money...

They say they are gonna get it for me this afternoon... we shall see..

If they do I will report back later on how it goes...

Dr Who · 14 Apr 2006 at 07:48

Picking it up today, will let you know later how it goes

Dr Who · 14 Apr 2006 at 10:39

Well what a surprise, they got the wrong mobo..

Looks like I am ordering a DFI if it seems to work ok..

LoadsaMoney · 14 Apr 2006 at 12:03

Yeah uses the terrible SB450, and not the ULI, so it suffers from poor USB, SATA problems etc...

subxero · 14 Apr 2006 at 12:33

Gibbo said:
Hi there

We have them on order, but lots of confusion over pricing, if I get price I want these will be sub £100 all in.......but Sapphire may have made a boo boo.....

Wow hopefully that would be a cracking price Gibbo, is the comfusion relating to the northbridge it uses? I found that confusing when i trawled the Sapphire webbie, they have 2 products under one name