Reviews - ASUS Sabertooth X79 TUF motherboard

[HEXUS]

A beast of a board for a beast of a chip.

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[kalniel]

"but remember that Intel has now stripped away the need for a traditional southbridge - everything's contained in one chip." (p2)

You mean northbridge I think.

Good catch with the asus auto overclocking - other reviews have mentioned the same, though I remember a couple of manufacturers doing the same thing with 775 boards as well, adding more work to the reviewing process. Auto OC is fine if it's not part of a power user setting - if there's no disadvantage to it and it adds to the customer experience, but it should be in a clearly explained BIOS mode (which can still be the default) with the availability of a 'pure' mode preset which turns off all the auto tuning.

[cjs150]

A nice board but 40mm fans. What on earth were they thinking of. More and more consumers want lower noise and 40mm just whine.

A fan over the IO looks completely pointless - a gimmick and the other one I can replace with a water cooling block.

Please sir can we have more motherboards with right angled 24 ATX

[Jonatron]

There's something very serious looking about this board. I like that.

[Brewster0101]

There's something very serious looking about this board. I like that.

The AMD 990FX sabertooth looks alot nicer and refined. The X79 one looks way over the top.