ASRock AB350M Pro4 and Sapphire RX 460 UEFI "Easter Egg"

[VirtualLarry]

My newest build, I threw in a Sapphire RX 460 4GB Nitro card.

Well, when it booted up, I was greeted, not with the usual "ASRock" logo, but a really souped-up logo, that said "ASRock | Sapphire", with trails of light.

Do ASRock and Sapphire have the same parent company?

It's a pretty neat little easter egg. I wish AMD would do more of this co-marketing stuff.

I'm purposefully NOT including a picture, because I'm going to encourage you to go out and try this yourself.

 

[Shmee]

Hmm, that sounds pretty cool.

 

[XavierMace]

I'm purposefully NOT including a picture, because I'm going to encourage you to go out and try this yourself.

You want people to buy a new video card and/or motherboard just to get a different BIOS splash screen? Yeah, that's not happening.

 

[twinrider1]

Disregard.

 

[cbn]

Virtual Larry,

Time for you to do your very first YouTube video.

 

[cbn]

Some info on the partnership:

http://www.asrock.com/news/index.asp?id=3580

Apparently there is also a ASRock-Sapphire boost feature:

(Couldn't find any info on what that does though)

 

[VirtualLarry]

Thanks for the background info, cbn, I didn't think to check for a 'Sapphire Boost' feature in BIOS. I wonder if it's similar to what certain NV chipset-based boards would do, when an NV GPU was present. (The board would OC the PCI-E bus to 125Mhz.)

 

[lukart]

Does anyone knows exactly what it does?