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ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX, AM3+, AMD Motherboard
Price:
$325.00
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30 days returns. Seller pays for return shipping.
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I am a computer Tech, and thanks to the military I have 40 years experience. And when I go to purchase hardware I do a lot of research on the item. Then I research another, if it does not beat the first, then I look at the next one, I repeat this till there really is no choice left. The Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 is the one that can't be beat. I have bought these before, and with their age starting to show, you may think there are newer better boards out there. There are pretty boards with lights, but lights will not make your computer run better. The Asus ROG is prettier, but the board is more expensive, and at least as old a design as this motherboard. The board is strong, so if you end up with a AMD 9590 processor at 220 watts this board will handle it. The Asus Suite software is useful for temp monitoring the board. The Ceramic "Military" coating works, and basically the board is bullet proof. The features of this board keep it a solid performer so much that Asus stills sell this board new. I have owned a couple of these boards, and for custom builds, this is one board that you have nothing to ever worry about as the body of your build. As I said to start with Compared to the others for this socket, The 990FX R2.0 is still the best of the best.Read full review
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
it got here as pictured and i installed it turned it on and black screen it didn't work that was worrying but then i noticed the lights stopped on graphics so i put a different GPU in and it works it has good overclocking features such as a huge VRM heat-sink and a painfully slow bios with all the right options and a weak SATA controller would i recommend it not for most people unless you really want to overclock a FX8/9xxx processor there is no good reason to buy such a old expensive motherboard with a slow bios but i do want to overclock those processors so i am pretty happy with it
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
Thus far the best motherboard I've ever owned. This thing has amazing thermal protection with sensors throughout the board for easy monitoring, with means for adjusting either while in the Advanced BIOS setup mode, or through the "Thermal Radar" software you install into, and open from your Windows OS. ******* Besides being built like a tank, it offers great intuitive features like the UEFI BIOS, USB BIOS flashback, and many others like Quad-GPU SLI and Quad-GPU CrossFireX Support. ******* Unlocking and overclocking on this is pretty much effortless, just make sure as with any computer build, that you have a power supply that provides more than enough +12 volt amperage and wattage necessary, and make sure your case has a good air flow design and enough fans to properly cool all components well enough to prevent hot spots as speed also produces more heat, **Heat is the enemy, keep it cool ******* The entire layout on this Sabertooth 990FX is very well thought out with output headers placed where they make the most sense for better than most cable routing. It has plenty of USB 3.0 external headers and one internal USB 3.0 (x2) placed exactly where I needed it to be (Thanks ASUS). ******* A small bit of bragging: ASUS Sabertooth 990FX Motherboard*** AMD FX 8350 CPU *** Front mounted Cooler Master Seidon 240m CPU cooler w/2 Gelid 120mm PWM filtered fans pushing, and 2 CM 120mm PWM fans pulling in a:*** Cooler Master HAF XB Lan Box computer case*** Cooler Master 800 Watt Gold rated power supply*** 16GB (4x4) Ripjaws 1333GHz DDR3 RAM*** 2- EVGA GeForce GTX 460 in SLI*** 1- Samsung 840 Pro 256GB SSD primary drive*** 2- WD 300GB Velociraptor SATA3 drives*** 1- WD 1TB drive*** 2- 80mm rear lower exhaust fans*** 1- 120mm rear upper exhaust fan*** 1- red CM 200mm filtered top mounted intake fan, and a bunch of other goodies. ******* I love this thing and hopefully one day I'll be able to add a couple of SSD drives and upgrade memory to 32GB (4x8)DDR3 1866 of CORSAIR Dominator Platinum, I believe that is currently the highest speed set of ram tested and passed by this particular motherboard. ******* I use this to do video and music editing and also use it as a gaming computer. This thing is blazing fast, it plays all of my games ***(Skyrim, Call of Duty, and many others) without a hitch, and does everything else I need it to very well.*** I would definately recommend...Read full review
At first I put my computer together and it didn't display anything, no beeps from the warning speaker. I wound up trying all the troubleshooting I could do. Nothing, then I randomly turned it on and the warning finally came on that my RAM was faulty. This board is loaded with awesome features. I just wish it worked before I stressed over it for 3 days and wrote a feedback about it.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
Asus have always done right... as an opinion. Owned previous models and ran server OS on most. With this board, ran HPT RocketRAID 2720 with JBOD as boot and also ran the motherboard built-in RAID controller simultaneously and vice versa. Some board will not allow the usage of built-in in boot mode of additional RAID controller unless the built-in is disabled. System Config: This Board (Rev. 1) AMD FX-8150 4 - 8 GB G.Skill (F3-1866C10D-16GSR) NVidia GeForce 9800 GT 1GB NVidia GeForce 7600 GT Silicom 6 port 1G NIC PEG6I Zalman CNPS9700 XION 1100W 1100P14HE HPT RocketRAID 2720 5 - 2 TB Hitachi HDS723020BLA642 (RAID 5) 2 - 180 GB OCZSSD3-2AGT180G (RAID 0) (moved to other systems as boot RAID 0) 1 - 450 GB Seagate ST3450856SS (SAS, JBOD) (Current boot OS drive; restored from backup, Windows 2012 Datacenter) Built in SATA/RAID 1 - 300 GB WDC Velociraptor WD3000GLFS (SATA, IDE) (Initally Boot OS drive, but moved to other systems) 3 - 500 GB WDC 7200 BE (RAID 0)Read full review
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