What we have here today is Sapphire’s first new entry into the Intel motherboard market since the Pentium 4 days, the Pure Black X58. Now some of you might be asking why the brand most closely linked to all things AMD/ATI has decided to re-enter this ultra-competitive sector. Well if the rumors are to be believed, sometime last year Sapphire managed to lure over EVGA’s motherboard development team. With not much activity on the AMD chipset side, and the engineers responsible for the highly successful Classified series on their payroll, Sapphire’s next step was obvious: make new Intel motherboards.