The TUF series of ASUS boards are recognizable thanks to the Thermal Armour which covers the vast majority of the board and are marketed as having mil-spec components to outlast other motherboards using the same chipset. This board supports quad GPU setups but keep in mind that there is also an M.2 port, that you need a more expensive CPU and the fact that there are only three PCIe 16x 3.0 slots, the other card will be in a PCIe 4x 2.0 slot, leaving a single 1x slot for other cards. The AI Suite III overclocking software is not supported on this TUF board but [H]ard|OCP had great success overclocking manually, some of their reviewers more so than others though. Check out the full review if you are comparison shopping for an X99 motherboard.
"ASUS’ SABERTOOTH X99 promises premium quality and unmatched stability alongside industry leading fan control. Saberooth motherboards have in the past all been universally excellent and this motherboard is one of the newest in the TUF series. Can ASUS keep that streak going? It's going to be TUF."
Here are some more Motherboard articles from around the web:
- MSI X99A XPOWER AC @ Kitguru
- TUF Tested – Enthusiast Ready – ASUS X99 Sabertooth @HiTech Legion
- Gigabyte X99-UD4P @ SilentPCReview
- ASRock Fatal1ty Z97X Killer/3.1 Motherboard @ Hardware Secrets
- MSI Z97A Gaming 6 @ Kitguru
great article but a little
great article but a little misleading on the whats in the package.
i have this board and it didn’t come with a 2/3way sli bridge also they picture the hyperkit which is sold separate. Besides that every thing with it is amazing. holds my 5930k stable @ 4798.8 36 multi 133.3 blc at 1.2875 volts. and the hyperkit + and intel 750 2.5 in
driver were super easy to get going with this board.
one gripe I have that wont seem to go away is i have to turn off hang on fault due to a constant cpu fan error i get with the phanteks pwm hubs. setting the monitor to ignore does not stop the fault and will hang you @ the post screen and make you press f1 unless you disable it.
Ryan: 390X review urgently
Ryan: 390X review urgently please.
It doesn’t seem that [H] ever
It doesn’t seem that [H] ever did get this board stable at 4.5 here’s a quote from that article….
“Long story, not so long, we never could get either of our SABERTOOTH X99 motherboards stable at 4.5GHz. That said, it would run 4.4GHz/2666MHz for days without issue. Considering our stock overclock settings have been 4.5GHz/2666MHz since we started testing X99 motherboards I was somewhat let down. There were a lot of hours by a lot of people put into getting this motherboard stable at 4.5GHz and it simply was not meant to be. That said, Dan had different results, and generally I would suggest this was simply due to hardware configuration, but seeing as we ran multiple configurations on my end alone, this is not the reason.”
Dan did, Kyle did not, even
Dan did, Kyle did not, even with help from ASUS which is why I mentioned some had differing results.
"With those settings and a manual CPU voltage of 1.35v I was able to achieve a result of 4.5GHz."