Sapphire Pure Fusion Mini E350

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Sapphire Pure Fusion Mini E350
81

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Based on 6 expert reviews
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Sapphire has got its shrink-ray online again with this tiny AMD Fusion board, the Sapphire Pure Fusion Mini E350.AMD's long-awaited, and even longer talked-about, Fusion technology has finally seen the light of day with a few motherboard...

By TechRadar on
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As for the Sapphire Pure Fusion Mini E350, our initial dismay at its SO-DIMM slots was tempered once we studied the whole board. It was probably a concession to enable the mini-PCIe slot, which is useful for adding features like Wi-Fi. Therefore, while...

By HardwareZone.com on
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We really like the new AMD fusion platform, it runs very cool, demands little power and serves perfectly as a low cost 1080p capable media center. The Sapphire board is well built and remained rock solid through all our testing. Highly...

By Kitguru.net on

First let’s take a closer look at a more complex PURE FUSION MINI E350 mainboard. Although it is based on totally standard components, such as AMD E-350 processor and Hudson M1 core logic set (South Bridge), it looks very...

By X-bit Labs on

The standard benchmarks might not make the SAPPHIRE PURE Fusion E-350 look terribly good, but that’s more an issue with the benchmark suite than the platform itself. The suite is geared towards a traditional system with a discrete GPU, and...

By Icrontic on

Intel upped the processor ante by integrating video capabilities into their Sandy Bridge line. This improved performance (on some levels) by removing the video bus, a potential bottleneck. The removal of such devices led to less current running...

By TechwareLabs on

This Mini-ITX board, from Sapphire, is a full featured motherboard. These types of boards have been around now for about ten years. They are very useful to build low-cost backup systems. They are also very popular with the modding...

By Motherboards.org on

Sapphire has done a very nice job with the Mini E350 and it is the best mini- ITX motherboard we have reviewed to date. They used some thought in the board layout seeing there is not much space. From the battery being placed vertical to the use of...

By Pureoverclock on

On the whole, Sapphire Fusion Mini E350 is an interesting solution that offers more expandability than competing boards. Gigabit Ethernet and USB 3.0 are not a peculiarity for this class of products, and the supplied Bluetooth is surely not a...

By iXBT Labs on

What can I say but wow! I went into this review with an open mind and was very pleasantly surprised. As a long time Intel Atom user I have grown accustomed to the low power platform's limitations on what it could and couldn't accomplish. Even...

By Overclockers Club on