Company: Sapphire
Authour: James Prior
Editor: Charles Oliver
Date: February 16th, 2011

Sapphire
![]() Pure Black X58 |
The X58 Tylersburg chipset is feature rich and premium priced, offering Nehalem family Bloomfield and Westmere family Gulftown processor support. The X58 chipset is also Intel's workstation and entry level server platform, offering up to two-CPU socket support for Xeon Nehalem and Westmere family processors. Tylersburg represents a large change in system design for Intel, and isn't due for replacement until the new Sandy Bridge EN and EP suffix processors using socket LGA 1356/2011 and the Romley platform appear at the end of 2011.
Sapphire's Pure Black X58 offers several feature updates and expansions to the now aging X58 platform, including SATA 3 6gbps and USB 3.0 SuperSpeed ports.
![]() Pure Black X58 |
Specifications
$299USD SEP
Intel Socket LGA 1366
ATX Form Factor
Intel X58 + ICH10R Chipset with Six SATA-2 Ports + RAID 0/1/5/10 + eSATA
Six DDR3 DIMM slots supporting up to 24GB
Marvell 88SE9128 Host Controller AHCI/RAID 2x SATA-3 Ports + IDE Dual-Channel Controller
8 Rear USB 2.0 ports + Internal 2 Port Header
2 Rear USB 3.0 SuperSpeed ports
Integrated Bluetooth 2.1+EDR
1 Rear Firewire 400 + Internal Header
Realtek ALC892 7.1 HD Audio w/ S/PDIF Optical + Coaxial Output
Marvell 88E8057 Gigabit Ethernet port
Five 3-pin Fan Headers + CPU 4-pin PWM header
Four PCI-Express Graphics slots (Three PCI-E Gen 2.0, One PCI-E Gen 1.1)
AMD CrossFireX Support
Single PCI 2.3 32-bit expansion slot
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