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The Sapphire Pure Fusion Mini 350 arrives in a shiny branded box with a list of the features on the front.
The bundle includes a software and driver disc, motherboard manual, two sata cables and a motherboard backplate.
The Sapphire Pure Fusion Mini 350 motherboard is a mini ITX design with a clean, compact PCB layout.
The E350 APU features a third generation unified video decoder core with Microsoft DX11 capability and supports H.264, Divx and Xvid. Sapphire have installed a small fan to actively cool the heatink.
This particular board is unusual in that it requires the use of DDR3 SO-DIMM's – more often used in laptops. It can support 800mhz and 1066mhz memory with a maximum of 4GB (2+2GB).
The Sapphire Pure Fusion Mini 350 motherboard has a discrete PCI-E x 16 graphics slot but it only delivers x4 bandwidth. There is also a Mini PCI-E slot next to the PCIE slot.
The board supports a total of 5 SATA 3 devices with 6GB/s and AHCI.
The motherboard has a digital readout onboard to help with diagnosing potential issues.
It requires power via a 4 pin ATX power connector.
From left: Four USB 2.0 ports, BlueTooth, eSATA port, 10/100/1000 Lan Port, two USB 3.0 ports, a VGA and DVI-D port. Next to these is a HDMI port and audio out with optical S/PDIF at the far right.
