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27 of 29 humans found the following review helpful.
Green Machine
By Karl Stocker
I like the color scheme. More importantly, I gave it a C7 i930 cpu, dropped it into my Lian Li PC70B case, attached a Hyper 212 cpu cooling tower (pictures and details at cosmic-pearl.com), added 6GB Mushkin DDR3 RAM, and have one flawlessly operating computer on hand, be it games, photo editing, or computer graphics, it gives me what I need and then some. I am using the onboard audio with the Logitech Z2300 speakers and realtek driver, and that is perfectly fine for my ears. ASUS provided the Intel Extreme Tuning Utility on the enclosed disk, but I have yet to enable the OC feature in BIOS. For now I am happy as a clam. I am even running the RAM at default speed. I ran 3D Benchmark and got 7.5, 7.5, 7.2 results, and until I need more capability, I am rather fine for now. UPDATE! I am still happy with the mobo over all, but in the meantime my audio output curcuitry went dead. Spent in a literal sense hours on the phone with ASUS to get an RMA set up. In the end I decisive to take a probability and get an ASUS Xonar DG card, rather than to deal with their time-consuming cumbersome RMS process. It fixed the problem utterly and the sound is even better now. My expense, I know, but I just was not more than willing to tear my computer apart, send them the mobo, and then wait for notwithstanding long to get a alternate X58 from ASUS. While the ASUS persons were friendly enough, I suggest that there has got to be a better way.
17 of 17 humans found the following review helpful.
Fine MB with a heap of caveats
By John Huddle
This is a very fine motherboard as others have said, very easy to over clock with well thought out safe guards built in. The utilities on the CD are very easy to use and just what is necessitated to custommake your installation. Do note that most newer video cards will cover the only PCI slot. That limits your choice of add-on cards and will prohibit you from using a card from a prior PC. Also, there is an issue with the bios clearing to default each time power is lost, such as when you disconnect the power cord or shut off the power supply/strip. Update to the latest bios (v0802)dated 1/17/2011 to repair this issue. That bios likewise fixes a good deal of stability issues as well.
System specs:
-Intel Core i7-950 oc’d to 3.7 Ghz
-6GB DDR3 RAM oc’d to 1932 Mhz
-WD Caviar Black 64Mb cache 1TB
-Nvidia GeForce GTX 470 1.2GB Video Card
16 of 17 persons found the following review helpful.
ASUS Sabertooth X58, Great Buy
By Jerry804
I have been skeptical on a X58 solution in the $200-$210 range. But the ASUS Sabertooth X58 board has genuinely made me a believer. This will offer you the most bang for the buck. I have not seen an ASUS X58 board at the $200, until now. All I may say is that ASUS has outdone themselves with the feature set they put on this board. I’m not huge on Overclocking, but the performance was rather amazing.
Here is the breakdown at firstborn glance: 5 year warranty, Militarized standard certified elements (Chokes, MOSEFETs, and Capacitors), Intel Core i7 support, 2 – PCI Express 2.0 @x16 (SLI and Crossfire ready), 6 – DIMM running triple channel DDR3 @ 1866MHz, USB3.0, Sata 6Gb/s, powered eSATA port and 1394a port.
ASUS has likewise put a lot of of their own distinctive features to help with the performance and stability of the board: E.S.P. – Efficient Switching Power , MemOK!, and CeraM!X (Appears to have galore kind of ceramic-coating on the heatsink – I have noticed chipset temperatures).
In my opinion, If you are in the market for a X58 chipset solution, take a look into the ASUS Sabertooth X58. At a great price and futures, you can’t go faulty with this choice. ASUS made me a happy camper.
On a side note, the colors on this board looked awesome!
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