Soon, Intel based ASUS motherboards will be joined at the high end by one based on the AMD 990FX chipset.  TechPowerUp has the scoop on an upcoming Sabertooth motherboard.

While Intel seems to get the honors of the majority of high end motherboards, AMD enthusiasts will soon be able to get their hands on an ASUS 990FX Sabertooth motherboard with an AM3+ socket. ASUS is bringing out both the Republic of Gamers (ROG) as well as their "The Ultimate Force" branding. Let’s see what that marketing speak purports to give AMD enthusiasts:

According to TechPowerUp, the Sabertooth board for the AMD 990FX chipset "is designed to run up to four discrete graphics cards." Further, The board hosts an AM3+ socket, 10-phase digital VRMs, four DDR3 RAM slots connected to the CPU via a HyperTransport 3.1 link. TechPowerUp claims that the board will be able to accomodate up to 1866 MHz memory modules. The black PCB and green heatsinks keep with ASUS’ TUF branded motherboards, and supports such features as UEFI BIOS and MemOK.

Connectivity options include:

   ASUS 990FX Sabertooth AMD Motherboard
PCI-E 4x PCI-E 2.0 (x16/x4/x16/NC or x16/x4/x8/x8)
PCI 1x PCI
SATA 6x SATA 3 ports and 2x SATA 2 ports

USB

 1x USB 3 header, 1x USB 2
Firewire 1x Internal Firewire header
SPDIF-Out 1x Internal header
Rear I/O

1x PS/2 mouse/keyboard port

1x Optical Out

1x Firewire

6x USB 2.0

2x USB 3.0

2x eSATA (one powered)

1x Gigabit Ethernet

6x HD Audio ports (2.1 out + mic in or 5.1 output)

It’s nice to see that AMD is still getting some high end motherboard love from manufacturers and consumers.  You can find more photos over at TechPowerUp.