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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.

Some Extra Fun

As mentioned in the introduction we had the board almost close to day one from it's release. While there were initial bios hickups ( eg 125 Bclock divider not working at start, 2400mhz ram divider far from stable,...) ASUS bios team get most bugs, shortcomings quicly ironed out. Without exagerating, the ASUS lineup was pretty solid from the start. Some other brands are still limping behind, especially in the OC department. We tested our Intel 3960X ES CPU easily at it's max frequency of +5300Mhz under Liquid Nitrogen. We ran dual and triple GPU GTX 580 setups on the Sabretooth. Even with an LN2 cooled GPU the board remained a pleasure to work with. Here are some snippits of the obtained results with our Sabretooth sample.

Also with the i7 3820 CPU, 4750Mhz on air, is a no brainer on this board. We will push that particular CPU in the future. Keep you posted for some more results.

Since the board was pretty mature from the start we also opted to further test SSDs and RAM on this board. Pushing our GSKill RipjawsZ 16Gb Quad Channel 2133C9 kit easily to 2400Mhz and beyond. And it has more headroom, but the CPU's Integrated Memory Controller is the weakest link.

The intuitive layout of the Turbo Evo software, allows for quick and succesfull on the fly tweaking in Windows. And if you don't like manual tweaking, just enable the OC tuner in the bios and get this result with eg the 3960X CPU :

Nice safe OC on the CPU and the rams have been pushed to 2000Mhz too :)

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