Sapphire Pure Black X79N Motherboard and HD7970 GPU Review

Today we are using the latest beta version of Sapphire's TriXX tool for overclocking duties.

Overclocking with the TriXX tool is easy. We managed to achieve a 1047mhz core overclock which translates to a healthy 13.1% increase. It is possible to get higher than this, but we noticed some slight artifacting with some stress tests, so we aimed for the lowest ‘100% artifact free' result.

The HD7990 overclock helped to boost overall performance in 3DMark 11 from 7919 points to 8667 points, which is an incredible result for this system.

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