Sapphire Technology announced a new range of high end mainboards providing support for AMD Athlon64TM. Developed primarily for the PURE Performance enthusiast, the specifications for the Sapphire PURE mainboard line have been chosen to give the user maximum flexibility in performance optimisation. Providing support for high- end hardware options such as Dual VPU support hardware and offering the capability for BIOS performance tuning, the PURE product family reaches new heights in desirability for the PC platform. Although it is not clearly clarified, Dual VPU means that two ATI graphics processors will ensure great performace for your 3-D graphics. Equipped with the latest ATI Express-200 chipsets it offers support for the latest socket 939 AMD Processors.

Pure Innovation mainboards boast support for the powerful AMD Athlon64TM and FX processors, main memory options of up to 4GB of Dual Channel DDR400, PCI-Express Technology plus additional PCI slots meeting any need for expansion, and a range of onboard communications options including LAN and Firewire as well as multiple USB 2.0 ports and on-board multi channel sound. Peak hard drive performance is assured with both IDE and SATA support.

For further information visit www.sapphiretech.com.