Sapphire PURE Black X58 Intel Motherboard

Dewayne Carel

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BIOS, Installation, and Software

SAPPHIRE went with AMI for the BIOS on the PURE Black X58.

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The first screen almost reminds me of my Lenovo PC at work where you get just the basic info about the machine.

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We will jump past the Performance Tab and take a quick look at the Advance features which appear to be the normal stuff that you see in any BIOS.

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The reason we jump past the performance tab was that it has the most features and is the place that most of us will spend our time.

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In just about every option you are presented with a lot of choices to pick from.

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The installation of the driver software went really well and easy. The easy to use GUI used to select and install the drivers was a nice change from the drab looking interfaces that others present us to use.

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We know that SAPPHIRE has the TriXX overclocking software for their graphic cards, but now we are given one for their motherboards. The super easy to use interface is something that I really like. Not being a heavy overclocker and only dabble into once in a while for fun or hardware testing I really like the fact that I could make the changes with a mouse and click apply and it was all done. I know that you purest overclockers out there are saying ” the only true way to over clock is in the BIOS” and I agree. But if I can do the testing without have to restart the PC a few hundred times and then set in the BIOS, then I am happy.

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