Sapphire Pure Platinum Z77K Motherboard Review

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When all four cores are loaded, the Sapphire board by default drops the core speed to 3,700mhz. The Asus Z77 boards we reviewed in the last week run at 3,900mhz, even with all four cores loaded @ 100%. This explains the slightly lower scores when running at ‘out of the box' speeds via this Sapphire board. It would be easy enough to adjust the ratio in the bios- all to 39.

This is a clever move from ASUS really. When overclocked to 4.6ghz, the scores are identical to the Asus Z77 products.

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