Sapphire Reveals Pure Platinum Z77/K Motherboard

We've already covered a significant number of upcoming 7-Series motherboards, but that doesn't mean that there aren't more of them on their way to stores.

In fact, Sapphire has just made its contribution, or at least has offered a glimpse of one mainboard of this type.

The product bears the name of Pure Platinum Z77/K and uses the ATX form factor.

One can tell at a glance that Sapphire didn't really gloss over any of the platform's capabilities.

To start off, there are four PCI Express 3.0 x16 slots, which means that up to four cards can be installed in multi-GPU setups.

A standard 4-pin Molex connector will have to be used in this case.

Besides the above, the motherboard has a pair of PCI Express x1 slots and four dual-channel memory slots, leading to a maximum of 16 GB DDR3, or 32 GB if users somehow get 8 GB modules.

Moving on, Sapphire gave its creation four SATA 3.0 Gbps ports and a pair of SATA 6.0 Gbps connectors, plus AHCI and RAID support.

What's more, the rear I/O panel is made up of dual Gigabit LAN, two USB 3.0 ports (two more are possible via pin headers), four USB 2.0 ports (six more via headers), optical SPDIF and 7.1 audio.

Not only that, but the developers tossed in Dual BIOS, a digital debug display, a BIOS reset button, the Sapphire QBIOS (UEFI BIOS with lots of overclocking features and BIOS backup from within the BIOS itself) and voltage test pads placed at the edge.

Finally, Sapphire's Pure Platinum Z77/K has a black multilayer PCB (printed circuit board) and gold-plated USB 3.0 and LAN connectors, plus solid capacitors, multi-phase PWM, Sapphire Diamond Black chokes and low profile coolers on the PWM (allows large CPU coolers to be installed unobstructed).

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