Sapphire has just announced their first motherboard developed to support the latest family of CPUs from Intel, the Sapphire Pure Black X79N. This board is based on the Intel X79 chipset, features four DDR3-1600 memory sockets, one PCI Express 3.0 x16 slot, one PCI Express 3.0 x8 slot, two PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots, two PCI Express 2.0 x8 slots, four SATA-600 ports, four SATA-300 ports, eight-channel audio (Realtek ALC892), two Gigabit Ethernet ports (Marvell 88E8057), four USB 3.0 ports, and six USB 2.0 ports.
The Pure Black X79N has a black PCB, and uses high quality gold plated connectors for USB 3.0 and Gigabit Ethernet ports.
Information on pricing was not provided.
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