Sapphire Pure Black P67 Hydra Motherboard (PB-CI7S42P67) Review

Sapphire are using an American Megatrends bios, which is a no frills configuration, although it does offer full voltage and clock adjustments. Compared to some of the other P67 bioses it does look rather pedestrian.

We are using an Intel Core i7 2600k processor which runs at a default clock speed of 3.4ghz.

We are using an Intel Core i7 2600k for our review today. Kitguru has already covered this processor at launch day and we also managed to push it to 5.1ghz on an Intel motherboard – these processors overclock very easily and don't demand massive levels of voltage either.

Overclocking the 2600k to 4.8ghz was straightforward., simply by increasing the voltage to 1.47v and adjusting the CPU VTT to 1.15v we achieved complete stability. We are using a relatively modest cooler for this system build (CoolerMaster Hyper 212 Plus), so with a higher end model such as the Noctua NH D14, 5ghz might be possible.

Even though Sapphire rate the board as supporting memory to 1600mhz, we used 2ghz ADATA memory which worked fine. We did have to manually select the XMP profile however otherwise it defaulted to 1333mhz.

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