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Sapphire Radeon HD 7770 Pictured Ahead of Launch

With just a few more hours to go until the Radeon HD 7770 becomes official, a picture of an upcoming HD 7770 graphics card built by Sapphire has just reached the web giving us a glimpse at the successor of the popular Juniper HD 5770/HD 6770 solutions. For this next-gen midrange graphics card, Sapphire decided to go...

14 February 2012
14:31 GMT

Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 OC Edition Graphics Card Now Official

Sapphire, one of AMD’s closest add-in board partners, has just announced the release of two new graphics cards based on the Radeon HD 7950 design, including one factory overclocked model with a 900MHz GPU clock. Both of these cards use a cooling system developed in-house by Sapphire, the standard clocked versi...

31 January 2012
06:11 GMT

Sapphire Readies Radeon HD 7950 Non-Reference Card

If anyone was wondering whether or not any of AMD's partners were gunning for people with less cash on their hands, Sapphire seems to be it. The AMD Radeon HD 7950 family will truly be extensive once the official launch happens on January 31, this year (2012). There have already been a fair number of leaks, ...

30 January 2012
07:42 GMT

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Review Surfaced

With the launch of the Radeon HD 7950 drawing near, a Chinese website has posted a small review of AMD’s upcoming graphics card, which shows its performance when running Metro 2033, Battlefield 3 and the 3DMark GPU testing application. The graphics card used by tieba baidu is actually a Sapphire Radeon HD 7950...

30 January 2012
02:57 GMT

Softpedia's BIOS Pick of the Day 01/25/2012

One nice addition to our ever-growing list of BIOS files: the initial software for Sapphire's first X79-based motherboard, codenamed PURE Black X79N. This board brings forward all the nifty features one might expect in a new-generation motherboard: a maximum of 32GB DDR3, 4 USB 3.0 ports, no less than 4 SATA II...

25 January 2012
11:16 GMT

Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 7950 Card Info Leaked

Sapphire, being one of AMD's partners on the video card market, is naturally preparing its own Radeon HD 7900 cards, one of which has become the subject of a recent information leak. Yet again, information on an unannounced product has found its way to the Internet, whether its maker likes it or not. As it t...

20 January 2012
03:14 GMT

Sapphire AMD E-450 Powered Edge HD3 Nettop to Arrive in February

Six months after the introduction of the Edge HD nettop, Sapphire has presented a new version of the mini-PC that swaps the current Intel Atom CPU for a more powerful AMD accelerated processing unit.The new Edge HD model was showcased during the recent CES fair and it sports pretty much the same chassis as its Intel ...

17 January 2012
09:28 GMT

Sapphire Finally Launches X79 Pure Black LGA 2011 Motherboard

More than six months after showcasing the X79 Pure Black for the first time, Sapphire has announced the launch of this LGA 2011 motherboard that should soon be available worldwide at an yet undisclosed price point.Despite the long time that has passed since its first official showing, Sapphire’s creation has su...

9 January 2012
09:32 GMT

Huge Leak Reveals All Sapphire HD 7970 Cards, Even the 1,335 MHz Ones

There are small information leaks and then there are truly huge ones, like the one that showed how Sapphire means business. The year 2012 is already kicking things into high gear, even though the real product launch festival will be held at CES. Sapphire just became the major player on the scene of leaks and rumo...

3 January 2012
16:31 GMT

Sapphire Readies Pure White A55M for AMD A-Series APUs

It’s certainly been a while since we last laid our eyes on a new Sapphire motherboard design, but after the official announcement of the Pure Black 990FX it has also been uncovered that the hardware maker is working on anew FM1 solution, dubbed the Pure White A55M.Just as its name implies, the Pure White A55M i...

14 December 2011
19:31 GMT

Sapphire's Upcoming Pure Platinum H61P Packs USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps

The Intel H61 chipset is definitely a great buy for users interested in building a Sandy Bridge system on the cheap and Sapphire will soon make this type of motherboards even more attractive as it plans to deliver the Pure Platinum H61P with support for both USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps.Since the H61 platform controller hu...

14 December 2011
09:14 GMT

Sapphire Finally Releases Pure Black 990FX AM3+ Motherboard

It certainly took Sapphire a while to come out with the Pure Black 990FX motherboard for AM3+ processors it showcased back in June of this year, but the company has now finally made available this solution to its customers.The Pure Black 990FX features the same black PCB that is characteristic to all Sapphire’s...

13 December 2011
03:43 GMT

Sapphire Outs FleX-Series HD 6450 for Low-Cost Eyefinity Setups

Sapphire just announced that it has expanded its product portfolio with a new Radeon HD 6450 graphics card from its well known FleX series that was specially designed to provide multi-monitor capabilities to entry-level systems.The new graphics card is officially called the Sapphire HD 6450 FleX and it features a low...

9 December 2011
03:29 GMT

Sapphire Pairs the Radeon HD 6850 with 2GB of VRAM

Sapphire, one of AMD’s closest graphics card partners, has just announced earlier today the introduction of a new version of its Radeon HD 6850 model that has gained 2GB of video memory in order to make the card better suited for high-resolution gaming.Outside of this change, Sapphire’s solution has remai...

24 November 2011
09:01 GMT

Sapphire Develops Low Profile Radeon HD 6670 for HTPC Use

Since HTPC users are always on the lookout for new graphics cards that can deliver both quiet operation and a low profile, Sapphire has thought that it's just about time to introduce such a solution into the market and came out with the Sapphire HD 6670 Low Profile.The resulting card is one of the most compact H...

17 November 2011
08:46 GMT

Sapphire Pure Black X79 Motherboard Shows Off

Since a number of X79 motherboard were already previewed, it was only a matter of time before Sapphire leaked one of its own, so the Pure Black X79 definitely didn't go by unnoticed. Then again, this isn't so much a formal preview on the company's part as it is an unofficial photo shoot, of sorts, ...

5 November 2011
06:05 GMT

Sapphire Intros HD 6970 Graphics Card with Dual-BIOS and Dual-Fan Cooling

Sapphire has just updated its graphics card lineup to include a new model based on the Radeon HD 6970 design that comes with a custom designed cooler and PCB in order to deliver improved performance and overclocking headroom.The new cooling assembly was developed in-house by Sapphire and sports two 90mm fans, which t...

1 November 2011
09:59 GMT

Sapphire Outs Limited Edition HD 6970 FleX with Battlefield 3 Bundle

Now that DICE's highly anticipated Battlefield 3 first-person shooter has become available in North America, Sapphire has released a special version of HD 6970 FleX graphics card that comes bundled with a copy of the game.In order to download Battlefield 3 users will have to register their card on Sapphire'...

25 October 2011
04:14 GMT

Sapphire Reveals Pure Platinum A75P for AMD A-Series APUs

Sapphire has lately put a lot on interest in its motherboard business and released an impressive number of solutions for Intel as well as AMD processors, the latest board to arrive from this maker being the Pure Platinum A75P.The motherboard was designed to support AMD A-Series Llano APUs and is meant to come as a c...

29 September 2011
04:33 GMT

Sapphire Outs New Dirt3 Special Edition HD 6870

Even though quite a few months have passed since Codemaster has introduced Dirt3 to the world, this hasn't stopped Sapphire from releasing a new Radeon HD 6870 graphics card that comes bundled with a voucher code for the full version of the game. Known as the HD 6870 1G GDDR5 Dirt3 Edition, Sapphire's la...

15 September 2011
07:03 GMT

Sapphire Straps Vapor-X Cooler onto AMD Radeon HD 6850

Sapphire decided it was high time a new graphics card from the Radeon HD 6000 line got released, so it took one of its better coolers and applied it to a model from the higher half of the set, in terms of performance.Even though both NVIDIA and Advanced Micro Devices have increased the amount of time used to speak a...

25 August 2011
03:14 GMT

Sapphire Pure Platinum Z68 Motherboard Officially Launched

The moniker of a product says much about what buyers can expect of it, so those who will consider getting Sapphire's newest ATX Intel-ready board need not spend much time contemplating the Pure Platinum Z68 name. Intel's Z68 chipset has just found a home in the Sapphire Pure Platinum Z68 mainboard, priced...

18 August 2011
06:23 GMT

Sapphire to Launch the Pure Platinum Z68 Motherboard On August 18

Sapphire will soon expand its portfolio of Intel motherboard solutions with a new design based on the Z68 chipset, the Pure Platinum Z68, which is expected to debut in a little bit more than a week from now, on August 18.Just as its name implies, Sapphire's latest creation is built around the Intel Z68 chipset, ...

9 August 2011
11:14 GMT

Sapphire Intros the Factory Overclocked Radeon HD 6950 Toxic

Long time AMD partner Sapphire, has just announced the introduction of a new factory overclocked Toxic graphics card that is based on the Radeon HD 6950 design, but comes with a customized printed circuit board and cooling system. Compared to the reference HD 6950, Sapphire's latest creation is chilled with t...

4 August 2011
04:29 GMT

Sapphire Launches the Pure Platinum A75 Board for FM1 APUs

At this year's Computex fair, Sapphire has introduced a great variety of motherboards based on AMD and Intel chipsets, and recently the company has announced the official launch of one of these solutions, the Sapphire Pure Platinum A75. Just as its name implies, Sapphire's latest creation is based on the...

21 July 2011
03:13 GMT

Sapphire Works on AMD Fusion Powered EDGE-HD Mini-PC

At the end of June, Sapphire has updated its EDGE-HD Mini-PC to feature a faster Intel Atom processor, but latest reports suggest that the Taiwanese company doesn't want to stop here and in the future it plans to launch an AMD Fusion version of the system. The current EDGE-HD2 Mini PC is powered by a dual-co...

14 July 2011
08:36 GMT

Sapphire Gets Ready to Launch Pure Platinum Z68 Motherboard

Showcased for the very first time more than four months ago at the CeBIT 2011 fair, Sapphire's Pure Platinum Z68 motherboard is finally getting ready to become available worldwide as the board was listed on the company's website and also showed up in the offer of a few online retailers. Just as its name ...

12 July 2011
03:14 GMT

Sapphire Mini PC Offer Updated and Upgraded

Sapphrie may be best known for its collection of desktop video and motherboards, but it has other business outlets as well, such as the market for mini personal computers, which it has just supplied with a new product.Sapphire has long been a provider of low-end, mainstream and high-end video cards and motherboards ...

29 June 2011
08:44 GMT

Sapphire Readies Pure Platinum H67 Mini-ITX LGA 1155 Motherboard

Ever since it went back into the Intel motherboard business at the beginning of this year, Sapphire has announced a wide series of solutions and soon the company will update its portfolio with yet another LGA 1155 board based on the mini-ITX form factor.This new model will be known as the Pure Platinum H67 and just a...

21 June 2011
07:19 GMT

Sapphire Also Presents AMD FM1 Pure Platinum A75 Motherboard

At this year's Computex fair, Sapphire has introduced a wide variety of motherboards including Intel X79 and AMD 990FX solutions, but the company also had on display an FM1 model that is compatible with AMD's upcoming Llano accelerated processing units.The motherboard is question is called the Pure Platinum...

3 June 2011
10:31 GMT

Sapphire Also Showcases Pure Black 990FX Motherboard

AMD's 990FX chipset proved to be one of the stars of this year's Computex, and Sapphire couldn't pass this opportunity to introduce their own motherboard based on this controller, the Pure Black 990FX-N. The motherboard features the same black PCB that is characteristic to all its high-end motherboa...

1 June 2011
11:31 GMT

Sapphire Presents X79 Pure Black LGA 2011 Motherboard

Sapphire has been absent for quite a long time from the Intel motherboard scene, but starting with this year the company is back in full swing and in the forth quarter of 2011 will introduce one of the most interesting X79 Express boards to make its appearance at Computex, the X79 Pure Black. Right now, Sapphire r...

1 June 2011
09:32 GMT

Sapphire Intros Dirt 3 Special Edition Radeon HD 6950 and HD 6870 GPUs

Now that the third iteration of the popular Dirt rally game has been officially launched, Sapphire has announced the introduction of two new Special Edition graphics cards based on the AMD Radeon HD 6950 and HD 6870 designs that come bundled together with Codemaster's latest title. The HD 6950 Dirt3 Special Edi...

24 May 2011
08:25 GMT

Sapphire's Radeon HD 6700 Graphics Card Lineup Includes 7 New Models

Shortly after the introduction of the Radeon HD 6700 video cards into the retail market by AMD, Sapphire has announced a series of new graphics solutions, based on the re-branded Juniper GPUs, which includes two factory overclocked Vapor-X and one FleX Edition models. The Radeon HD 6700-series graphics cards are j...

28 April 2011
04:08 GMT

Sapphire Pure White Fusion Is an Affordable AMD E-350 mini-ITX Motherboard

While there is definitely no shortage of AMD Fusion mini-ITX motherboard models from which to choose at this time, there's no denying the fact that some of these solutions can sport a pretty hefty price tag, so Sapphire has designed the Pure White Fusion, an E-350 board which retails for just €83. Althou...

19 April 2011
04:40 GMT

AMD Radeon 5850 and 5830 Live, Sapphire Pushes them to Xtreme

It looks like not all of AMD's partners are willing to give up on the Radeon HD 5000 series, or the 5800 line in this case, as Sapphire looked back and decided to bring a pair of those adapters closer to our times.At present, consumers and IT players alike mostly refer to the AMD Radeon HD 5000 series as the ol...

12 April 2011
04:53 GMT

Sapphire Pure Black P67 Hydra Motherboard Available for $229

Showcased for the first time at the beginning of the year during the CES 2011 fair, the LGA 1155 Sapphire Pure Black P67 Hydra motherboard is now finally available for purchase, and Newegg is one of the first retailers in the US to carry this board which is listed at $229.99. Sapphire's creation is one of the...

7 April 2011
08:39 GMT

Sapphire Officially Enters AMD Radeon HD 6790 Contest

Sapphire may have been the one behind the first leaked photos of the newest video card from Advanced Micro Devices, but it really looks like they are ready to get to business for real now that their actual press release has come out.The Radeon HD 6790, though it has already been customized by some companies, has onl...

5 April 2011
07:45 GMT

First AMD Radeon HD 6790 Pictures Leaked Thanks to Sapphire

Although there is still about a week left until April 5, when AMD plans to officially introduce the Radeon HD 6790, the first pictures of the graphics card have started to emerge thanks to some leaked high resolution photos of Sapphire's HD 6790. Taking a look at Sapphire's creation it becomes apparent t...

29 March 2011
16:31 GMT

Radeon HD 6950 FleX Graphics Card Unleashed by Sapphire

This is definitely not the first sighting of Sapphire's newest FleX series video card, but it is probably the most important, as the company has officially introduced its latest version of the AMD Radeon HD 6950.It seems that, amidst all the reports and analysis about what the various IT segments have in store ...

22 March 2011
08:33 GMT

Sapphire FleX Series of Graphics Cards Gets AMD Radeon HD 6950

It appears that Galaxy is not the only company preparing a custom version of a still unannounced video card, as Sapphire also has such plans, albeit with AMD hardware instead of technology from NVIDIA.While the consumer base is waiting to see just what NVIDIA's dual-GPU GTX 590 card will be like, other adapters...

15 March 2011
04:25 GMT

Sapphire Working on AMD Fusion Powered Version of the EDGE-HD Mini PC

At the start of last month, Sapphire officially launched what the company has called the “smallest PC in the world,” and now it is working on a revised version that will swap the current Intel Atom CPU for an AMD E-350 accelerated processing unit. The current version of the EDGE-HD Mini PC is powered b...

3 March 2011
13:01 GMT

Sapphire Also Showcases Intel Z68 Powered Motherboard

Besides more renowned Intel motherboard manufacturers, Sapphire has also showcased at the CeBIT 2011 fair, which takes place right now in Hannover, Germany, an Intel Z68 based motherboard that is scheduled to be released sometime in the May/June timeframe.Judging by the pictures provided, the board seems to use a 10-...

3 March 2011
07:11 GMT

CeBIT 2011: Sapphire to Release Intel H67 Mini-ITX Motherboard

Sapphire has been quite busy lately as it has announced an impressive number of Intel motherboards, and their LGA 1155 lineup is bound to get a new addition quite soon, since, during CeBIT 2011, the company has showcased an upcoming mini-ITX board based on the H67 chipset. Although Sapphire hasn't decided how...

3 March 2011
03:39 GMT

AMD Radeon HD 6990 Antilles May Launch During CeBIT 2011, Spotted in Sapphire and Gigabyte Systems

Eagerly awaited by many computer enthusiasts and gamers, the AMD Radeon HD 6990 graphics card, code-named Antilles, could make its official debut during the CeBIT fair, which is supposed to started in a few hours time in Hannover, Germany. Although the news hasn't been made official yet, earlier today AMD has...

28 February 2011
07:44 GMT

Sapphire Pure Black P67 Hydra Motherboard Gets Picture Preview

After what can only be described as a prolonged absence, Sapphire has returned in the Intel motherboard market, about a month or so ago the company announcing the Pure Black X58 and the Pure Black P67 Hydra boards, the latter just going through a detailed picture preview. As its name clearly states, the board is b...

11 February 2011
09:32 GMT

Sapphire Launches the EDGE-HD Mini PC, Calls It the Smallest PC in the World

Showcased for the first time during the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, which took place in Las Vegas, Nevada at the beginning of the year, the Sapphire EDGE-HD Mini PC has finally become official, availability being scheduled for mid-February. If you have read about the EDGE-HD Mini PC before, then you surely kno...

11 February 2011
04:20 GMT

Sapphire HD 5570 XtendTV Graphics Card Packs DVB-T Tuner

Sapphire has just announced a new graphics card that brings back some of the memories of ATI's All-in-Wonder series, as the Sapphire HD 5570 XtendTV pairs a DVB-T tuner together with a Redwood GPU, making it an interesting option for users interested in building an entry-level HTPC. Connected to a standard TV...

8 February 2011
05:11 GMT

Sapphire Challenges NVIDIA's Unreleased GTX 560 With FleX AMD Cards

As end-users know, NVIDIA will shortly unleash the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, but AMD's own partners are definitely not letting things go by without a move of their own, as proven by Sapphire and its FleX products.Sapphire's FleX family of video controllers is not totally new, but it did get two more members just...

25 January 2011
08:21 GMT

Sapphire 1GB Radeon HD 6950 Listed on Newegg for $259.99

Not so long ago AMD made official its plans regarding the launch of a 1GB version of the Radeon HD 6950 GPU, various manufacturers announcing solutions based on the new edition of the card, Sapphire being one of the first to deliver on that promise as Newegg has just received a stock of the company's Radeon HD 6...

25 January 2011
03:56 GMT


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