Rating: 8.0.

1. Introduction 2. Sapphire Pure Platinum Z77K 3. Sapphire Pure Platinum Z77K (Super High Res Gallery) 4. Bios and Overclocking 5. Testing Methodology 6. Synthetic: PCMark 7 7. Synthetic: 3DMark Vantage 8. Synthetic: 3DMark 11 9. Synthetic: Unigine Heaven Benchmark 10. Synthetic: HQV Benchmark 2.0 11. Synthetic: SiSoft Sandra 2011 12. Synthetic: Cinebench R11.5 64 bit 13. Synthetic: SSD Performance 14. Real World: 3D Rendering 15. Real World: Media Encoding 16. Real World: HandBrake 9.5 17. Gaming: F1 2011 18. Gaming: Alien V Predator 19. Gaming: Lost Planet 2 20. Gaming: Battlefield 3 21. Gaming: Mass Effect 3 22. Closing Thoughts 23. View All Pages

Kitguru has reviewed a handful of Z77 motherboards in previous weeks, and today we take a look at the new Pure Platinum Z77K from Sapphire. They face stiff competition in this sector from the likes of Asus, ASRock and MSI. But is the Pure Platinum Z77K worth a purchase?

Over the last year we have watched Sapphire make a serious effort to win the hearts and minds of the enthusiast audience, not only with a range of graphics cards, but with a steady release of motherboards.



We have reviewed their Pure Black Z79N, the Pure Black 990FX and the Pure Platinum Z68 in the last year. I am actually typing this review from a system I built in January last year using the Pure Black X58 attached to three screens.

Many people will dismiss Sapphire as a ‘new player’ to the motherboard market however in 2010 the eVGA mainboard team joined their ranks and have been working hard to create a series of world class products since then. Their motherboards have certainly proven extremely reliable over the years, however I will be the first to say that their bios configurations have needed some work.

Today we aim to test the Platinum Z77K in a variety of synthetic and real world tests and we will also overclock it to see if it can compete with other Z77 motherboards from ASUS and ASRock.

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