SAPPHIRE Technology announced at CES 2011 that they will be releasing two high-end enthusiast motherboards later this year, the SAPPHIRE Pure Black X58 for Intel Core i7, and the SAPPHIRE Pure Black P67 Hydra for Sandy Bridge. These boards should compliment the SAPPHIRE TOXIC line of video cards.
The Pure Black X58 will include USB 3.0, SATA-III, and three 2nd Generation PCI-Express 16x slots in a 16x8x8x arrangement for triple CrossFireX and tri-SLI, as well as a standalone PCI-Express 4x slot with dedicated lanes. While these are fairly standard for any enthusiast board, SAPPHIRE takes it a step further by incorporating technologies found on their TOXIC graphics cards—including their proprietary cooled voltage chokes and all solid state capacitors. The board will also include onboard power and reset buttons, voltage test points, and dedicated signal test points for overclocking, using a new version of SAPPHIRE’s TriXX software overclocking tool.
The Pure Black P67 Hydra is similar to the Pure Black X58, but includes the Lucidlogix Hydra Engine. The Hydra Engine is a semi-transparent GPU virtualization engine, which will allow P67 Hydra users to mix and match up to three GPUs.
Pricing and availability details are not out at this time, but SAPPHIRE’s official website should have updates on them in the near future
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