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ASUS X79 Sabretooth Motherboard Review

Motherboards/Intel S2011 by leeghoofd @ 2012-02-17

The ASUS Sabretooth lineup always has been part of a little controversy. Some had no idea why the TUF series ever had to be made. Claiming high Durability and Reliability. So the other ASUS boards were inferior then in build quality ? Wouldn't they survive the torture test that the Sabretooth series do ? I've had the Sandybridge P67 version for internal testing and must say that it was a joy to work with. Even when benching with LN2, the board remained hassle free. It was no surprise that with the launch of Sandy Bridge-E another Sabretooth would appear on the market. Today we are gonna have a look at the latest addition to the TUF series : The Sabretooth X79.

Bundled Software

Even though I'm no big fan of software OCing, it can be helpfull to tweak the little extra when testing stuff in Windows. The AI suite of the X58 boards seemed to be problematic sometimes. When setting voltages, all of the sudden the VCore was jumping all over the place. With X79, the new AI Suite seems rock solid. Plus it covers most of the essential settings from multipliers, Bclock, to loadlines and PWM frequency. Top job ASUS !

Even though the basic AI Suite has a monitoring tab for voltages and temp readouts, the Sabretooth software version is extended with the Thermal Radar function. Twelve readout points for temperature, some in critical areas like near the MOSFETs. Other readouts are a bit more of a bling bling factor, but they allow to monitor the temps all over the board. No options are left open.

The picture on the right, is when we pushed the 4500mhz OC'ed i7 3960X during a 5 min Prime 95. The Vcore probe get's pretty hot, easily over 90°C after extended priming.

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