Sapphire PURE CrossFire PC-AM2RD580

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Overclocking: I shot for the maximum HTT clock speed using an Athlon 64 FX-62 with the multiplier set to 8.0x. Much like the Abit KN9 SLI I had to take it slowly, raising the HTT clock in small increments in order to get the board to boot at the higher frequencies. I set the LDT to 3.0x and then went in search of some high HTT clocks. I got the board running a pair of Prime 95 instances on our dual-core CPU with the HTT clock set to 255MHz. There were no problems to report at these frequencies, but if I increased the clocks any higher, the board booted at 200MHz HTT. I think that this is a bug in the BIOS - hopefully one that Sapphire can fix. When it is fixed, we should see a lot more headroom unlocked on the board.

While I was experimenting on the overclocking front, I came across some other niggles that started to get annoying after a while through force of habit. The F10 save & exit functionality didn't work at all. The BIOS exited fine, but no changes were saved at all - I even tried changing some simple things like the time and then pressing F10, but it didn't even manage to save that. Another point that I came across was resetting CMOS - it didn't seem to want to work, however much I tried. The only way I could reset CMOS was to remove the battery and leave the board unplugged for ten minutes - most other boards just require the jumper change that didn't work here.

[...]Sapphire's PC-AM2RD580 is an incredibly solid motherboard that deserves recommendation for those who aren't worried by the lack of expansion options on both the I/O panel and on the board itself. There is still some work to do on the BIOS before the full potential of this board is unlocked; hopefully Sapphire will address these problems directly and we should see this board reach another level altogether on the overclocking front.

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