Bundle and presentation
Bundle and presentation
SAPPHIRE has obviously paid attention to style with the PURE Innovation board. The packaging, as well, certainly makes it look and feel like an expensive, premium board, which it is, retailing at around the £135 mark.
The back's rather pleasing, too. The excellent presentation continues with a see-through box panel.
The accompanying bundle, though, doesn't seems a deluxe as it should be. SAPPHIRE provides the basics, with a well-written manual, IDE/floppy cables, a coaxial S/PDIF PCI board with both inputs and outputs. There's also a single FireWire interface, making use of the VT6307 ASIC's second port
The driver CD contained the usual chipset-related drivers and a bonus CD carried a glut of security-related programs.
Given the board's appearance and price, we'd have liked a comprehensive bundle that matched offerings from the likes of ASUS, Gigabyte and ABIT. Still, it has all you need to get started, we suppose.