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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.

Test Setup

Time to give the Sabretooth a run for it's money. Since ASUS implemented again, alike with P67, their own version of the Turbo function, with all cores running at the same speed when being loaded. To give all boards a fair shot we will test the Sabretooth, and other X79 boards in the future, at 4500mhz.

The Sabretooth has to go head to head with Intel's own "Siler board", the DX79SI and an early test version of MSI's GD65 8D. Plus we just added the Gigabyte X79 UD5 board. It has to be noted that the biosses of the MSI and Gigabyte board were still far from stable when being overclocked, this at the time of writing. So keep the results in mind, but not as a 100% reference...

EDIT : MSI has just released a bios that should eliminate the 12X bug when pushing hard. So we will have to retest them results. Same for Gigabyte wich have resolved some issues with F9b bios.

ASUS Sabretooth (0906 bios)
Intel Siler DX79SI (0424 bios)
Gigabyte X79 UD5 (F9a bios)
MSI GD65 8D ( 1.2 bios )
Intel i7 3960X CPU @ 4500mhz
Corsair H100 Cooling
GSkill 16Gb 2133Mhz C9 kit
ASUS GTX480 ( SLI ) 285.38 drivers
Western Digital 1Tb Caviar green HDD
Corsair 850TX PSU

Here are some shots of the Sabretooth, UD5 and Siler board in SLI configuration.

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