12/14/2011 10:43:00 PM
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It’s certainly been a while since we last laid our eyes on a new Sapphire motherboard design, but after the official announcement of the Pure Black 990FX it has also been uncovered that the hardware maker is working on anew FM1 solution, dubbed the Pure White A55M.
Just as its name implies, the Pure White A55M is based on AMD’s A55 Fusion Controller Hub, FCH for short, which was designed specifically to power low-cost FM1 boards.
In order to fit into this role, the A55M drops the native USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps support found in the more powerful A75, to sport just a standard set of features.
Sapphire however decided to take matter into its own hands and installed on the Pure White A55M an USB 3.0 ASMedia host controller, according to VR-Zone, that adds support for two such ports.
Both of these are placed in the back of Sapphire’s micro-ATX creation and they are accompanied by four USB 2.0 ports, a PS/2 port, three audio jacks for 5.1-channel audio, as well as by D-Sub, DVI and HDMI video outputs.
The available expansion options are also up to par and include a PCI Express x16 slot, two PCIe x1 slots and a single 32-bit legacy PCI slot, while storage is provided via six SATA ports that support 3Gbps speeds.
Despite this being an entry-level FM1 solution we also get a capable 5+1 phase VRM as well as dual BIOS support, on-board Power and Reset buttons and a feature called Memory Free by Sapphire, which seems to be similar to Asus’ Mem OK function as is designed to quickly recover after a failed memory OC attempt.
No information regarding pricing or availability was mentioned, so we don’t know when the Pure White A55M motherboard will make its way into retail.
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