Specification
Product Details
- Brand: Asus
- Model: Sabertooth 990FX
- Format: CD-ROM
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 14.40" h x
11.90" w x
3.20" l,
3.90 pounds
- Memory: 32GB
Features
- AMD Socket AM3+ FX / Phenom II / Athlon II / Sempron 100 Series Processors
- AMD 990FX / SB950 Chipset
- CeraM!X - Premium ceramic-coating technology provides best heat dissipation
- TUF Thermal Radar - Real-time thermal detection with professional user mode for customized settings
- TUF Capacitors, Chokes and MOSFETS - Certified by military standard to ensure ultimate durability
- 5 Year Warranty
- DIGI+ VRM - New Era of Digital Power Design that fully enables Superior System Stability, High Power Efficiency and Improved Performance Scaling
- Efficient Switching Power (E.S.P) - Higher Power Efficiency; Higher Reliability
Product Description
The TUF Series delivers preeminent stability, all-around compatibility, and extreme durability, providing the most reliable computing experience.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
52 of 62 people found the following review helpful.
Failure to boot after 2 months. Warranty replacement was DOA. Support very uncooperative.
By James
I'm an IT manager my profession. I've built literally 100's of systems from the ground up.Normally I use Gigabyte or Biostar, but I really liked the "military tuff" marketing line on this board and it looks aggressive, which is exactly what I wanted. I also like the bios features, LED status lights instead of bios beeps and the fact that the system will reconfigure for ram problem automatically.I bought 3 of them. One for a client who wanted a high end custom system, one for my wife and one for myself. All with identical ram, video cards and processors. We each got got Nvidia 550 cards, 16 gigs of corsair ram and a 6 core FX chip and corsair 650 watt PSU.Client's system is running strong. No worries there. Thank God....My wife's system within a week started randomly freezing. Not my first rodeo so I update all the drivers, reset everything back to factory, etc. Problem persists... so we start pulling components off the system, drop it down to 1 stick of ram and the problem persists. 3 weeks in and no solution. I'm about to get on the phone with asus support and i see they just released a new set of drivers for the board so I update... finally stabilizes the system, but let me tell you, 3 weeks of wife aggro cause of a temperamental system suxAbout a month ago I wake up and my box is dead.... WTF? Lights are on but nobody is home.Check the surge protector... nothing was tripped. Check all the wiring... it's all good, but i see the "boot device" LED is on.... my hard drive is bad? I throw them in the wife's box.... no problems. I throw my wife's drive in my box... no joy. I swap out video cards and ram, nothing. I reset the CMOS, nada. So I wonder maybe if the PSU had gone wonky. I go buy a checker and it all checks out fine.I really have to call support? Really? I do this for a living... but ok. 5 minutes into the phone call the tech is giving me a RMA. Just on a lark I ask.... "does this happen often?"... "without missing a beat he says, 'all the time' ". I don't like to dawdle so I pay for their premium replacement service. They ship me a board, i swap and send them back the defective unit... no sweat. New unit arrives, i swap and the new unit is DOA... EXACT same problem.So... obviously I'm missing something right? I've got to be overlooking something. Something simple. The tech assured me they bench tested all replacements before shipping. So, I suck it up and drop my box off at the local puter shop. I tell him NOTHING.... I want a full troubleshooting job. He keeps the box for two days. He tests every component individually and even pulls that board out and tests with his parts. The guy confirms.... your motherboard is bad. SOAB...Back on the phone with Asus support. Now they tell me that even though i paid their $10 fee for the "premium" service + $30 for 2nd day air shipping for the replacement I have to ship their REPLACEMENT defective board back, let them bench test it so they can verify it's hosed. THEN they will ship me another board. ETA, 2 weeks....I say, no... that is unacceptable. You shipped me a defective replacement. Let me talk to someone else. I talk to lead tech and we go a few rounds. I'm very polite but firm. She basically tells me the same. I ask her, "Does this sound acceptable to you? If this was you how would you feel? Would you be happy?" She actually responds, "no. I would expect the company to send me a replacement immediately and for free."... I say, "wow, thank you. I appreciate your honesty. Now who can I talk to about making that happen because honestly i'm getting upset here. You're very nice and I don't want to yell at you. Please help me make this right"... no kidding, my exact words. I was very very nice. My mama raised me right.She puts me on hold, comes back and transfers me to her boss, Robert. I get Robert's voice mail. I leave my info and ask for a call back. He calls back about 2 hours later and right off the bat he is a complete tool. I have been absolutely polite to everyone up to this point but he's being a weiner. I have basically the same conversation with him that I had with the lead tech and his response to the same question above is, "yes sir, i would be happy waiting 2 weeks if i were you, because that is company policy." I respond, "I think that's BS and you know it. You guys sent me a bunk replacement. You're supposed to bench test these before they go out. I've already done my due diligence by getting someone else check out the board for me. I paid for that out of my own pocket. I've already been without a system for almost 2 weeks and now you tell me you can't ship me another board? I have the tracking number for the board i sent back right here. I even have a photo of the shipping receipt i'll email you to prove i sent it, but waiting ANOTHER two weeks is unacceptable. Please give me your supervisor's name and number. I'd like to talk to them."He response, "My supervisor is not public facing, but I can transfer you to customer care."I ask, "And what are they going to tell me?"Robert, "The same thing i told you. It's company policy."I say, "Robert i tell you what. Why don't you stick that RMA number where the sun don't shine. I'm going to buy a board from a different company."At that moment I made up my mind i'm no longer going to do business with a company that doesn't take customer support seriously and doesn't stand behind their products. I'll just eat the $174 i paid for this board and call it a life lesson.I will never ever buy another asus product so long as i live...I will never allow any budgetary money i control for any company i work for to be spent with asus.amen.Update: 2 weeks later I got my replacement board. Benson, (great guy by all accounts (below)) says he personally tested the board before shipping. Six months later the board is still in the box in my garage. I'm very happy with my new gigabyte 990fx board. I'll keep the asus board and build a media server or a skate board out of it. That's about all it's good for in my opinion.One of the guys in my office has this same board for his gaming rig. He's been through one replacement himself with the same issue.
20 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
Good choice for the AMD Phenom II x6
By J. S. Green
Overall, I find this board to be very well constructed, simple to install, excellent for overclocking, and very well stocked with I/O options.I have paired this motherboard with the AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Processor. I'm using a Thermaltake VL10001W2Z case and an Antec EA-750 Green power supply. My memory configuration is two Corsair XMS3 8 GB 1333 MHz PC3-10666, for a total of 16Gb.Pro:Very simple or very sophisticated overclocking. The basic "turbo" mode in the BIOS setup steps the Phenom II x6 up to 3.8 Ghz, just like that. If one wants to do a lot of overclocking, then the advanced BIOS options allow just about anything. If the overclock doesn't work, the BIOS will let you know after a manual power off. This board is an overclocker's dream. There is also a convenient "clear BIOS" button on the board, in case you REALLY goof it up.Many of the board components are tested to "MIL SPEC", which means military standards. They will survive higher than normal temperature conditions and still work. Many components are covered with special materials for extra cooling, and metal parts have micro sized distortions (like the dimples on a golf ball), which create more cooling area, and thus better efficiency.The manual is very good and quite clear. Along these lines, the website has all the drivers, updates, and manuals within easy web browsing.The board rear output has a single powered (and two non powered) Esata ports, two USB-3, 10 USB 2, a 1394 port, plus the usual sound & etc. There are an additional two USB-3 pins on the motherboard. Internally, it sports 6 600 mb/sec SATA and two 300Mb/sec SATA ports. It comes with 4 SATA cables and a crossfire cable.The board supports three high speed PCI-e cards.One really nice feature (for the system builder) is that there is a small removable block containing the pins for power, HDD, etc. One conveniently plugs in the case cables to this block, then slides the block onto the motherboard pins. This makes it a lot easier to connect them.The bios is visual, and runs a mouse. The "EZ" version has basic settings, while the "Advanced" version offers more choices. One thing that you might note is that if you are upgrading, the board is set by default to ACHI for the SATA, which means that Windows may not boot unless you first set the BIOS to "IDE". For Windows 7 users, there is a way to modify the registry to enable ACHI (google it). This is not important if the previous installation had ACHI.The board has lights for each of the main functions (memory, bood device, CPU, etc). If for some reason it won't boot, you can look inside and see which light is lit, saving a lot of trouble shooting time.There are several nice utilities that run under windows (I'm on Win 7 Pro). These allow one to set various settings, and view information about the board status. One valuable display shows the entire motherboard, with temperature colors for critical locations. This would be nice to trouble shoot cooling issues.In the "way cool" section, the board has utilities that allow one to change the boot image, so you can put your favorite picture up there when the computer starts up.Con:I think the BIOS is miscalculating the CPU temperature. The temperature has to be calculated from data provided by the Northbridge chip. I have seen temperatures in the BIOS that exceed the specs for my CPU! I am trusting the ones provided by CoreTemp, which use calculations provided by AMD. I don't know how ASUS calculates the temperatures it reports, but I don't trust the results they present.Sometimes the BIOS was a bit confusing, but that is mostly because I am used to older BIOS.The board is designed around the AMD 990 chipset, but they chose to integrate the legacy SATA (two ports on board and the three ESATA ports on the back) via a different chipset from Jmicron inc. It is a bit unusual to see the Jmicron looking for devices on the SATA (it shows up before the AMI bios page). I'm not sure why they did this for the SATA, since the newer 600 mb/sec standard is backwards compatible, but maybe that is just the easiest way for them to do it. Not really a "con", but surprising in such an advanced board.I have not yet managed to get the AMD "cool n quiet" feature of the Phenom II x6 to work. I suppose there is some way to change the settings to allow it (I have already enabled it in the advanced BIOS), but either my computer is always using the cores, or the motherboard simply isn't invoking it. Actually, this CPU runs cool enough that I may not pursue it further. EDIT: OK, the board utilities indicate that the CPU cores are using Cool N Quiet, but CoreTemp monitoring is not showing it.The board has a legacy serial connector on the board, but no serial port on the back. There is a mouse port, but if you really need serial (9 pin or other), you will need an adaptor card.Overall, the board works great out of the box or with modified settings. Recommended.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.OpenSUSE 12.1 needs network driver update to work right...
By Craig Arno
I installed OpenSUSE 12.1 x86_64 KDE on this motherboard with a AMD Phenom II T1100 6 core processor, Corsair Vengeance 8GB DDR3 1600 RAM, OCZ Solid 3 SATA3 60GB SSD connected to MB connector SATA3G_E1 in about 7 minutes. Everything works except the RTC8111E based network adapter [and later I discovered USB 2.0 and RAID HD Partitioning, described below]. Downloading the 8111E Linux driver from Realtek solved the problem. The Realtek driver was trivial to install, just unpack and (as root) run the autoinstall "./autorun.sh" script. The problem is the r8169 driver shipped with many Linux kernels (including 12.1's 3.1.0 kernel) incorrectly identifies itself as the right driver. The Realtek driver r8168-8.027.00.tar.bz2 builds and installs the correct 8168 driver which works perfectly with DHCP on my IPv4 network. This is a problem that needs to be fixed at kernel dot org for all distributions.The installed r8169 driver setup with a Static IP address worked well enough to download the 8168 driver from Realtek.This board also worked fine with Windows 7 Enterprise x64.I particularly like this board because it is built with high reliability components, the type I'd want in a server that's likely to run non-stop for 5 years. An enclosed "Certificate of Reliablity" explains what motherboard parts meet which standards to achieve "reliability". I also used a ($160) Kingwin 550W supply with power factor of 1.0 and Plus 80 "Platinum" rating so this new box will run as efficiently as possible (92%) over the next 5 years... the power savings even at $0.08/KWH will pay for the supply in 5 years. Read reviews of these new supplies as "modified sine-wave" UPS's may have to be replaced with more expensive sine-wave output UPS to function correctly with newer high efficiency supplies.Update 7-JAN-2012=================I discovered two more problems which were resolved by upgrading the delivered 0705 BIOS to version 0901; 1) My USB keyboard and mouse [and anything else USB] only worked on the two USB 3.0 ports under OpenSUSE 12.1 x64. Upgrading the BIOS from delivered 0705 to 0901 allowed OpenSUSE 12.1 x64 to recognize all USB devices on all USB 3.0/2.0 ports. The USB keyboard/mouse/flash-drive did work on the USB 2.0 ports when only talking to the BIOS (no OS loaded). 2) OpenSUSE 12.1 x86_64 wouldn't manage the partitions with GNU "parted" on two 500GB hard drives connected to SATA5 & SATA6. This wouldn't allow me to setup RAID-1 for the system. Upgrading BIOS from 0705 to 0901 solved this problem.Of course with USB 2.0 ports not working, using a USB pen drive, USB DVD-ROM writer, USB floppy, USB Mouse, USB Keyboard or anything else on the 2.0 ports under OpenSUSE 12.1 x64 didn't work [they do now after upgrading BIOS to 0901]UPGRADING THE DELIVERED BIOS was easy, dealing with the anxiety of upgrading BIOS was not... I downloaded the SABERTOOTH-990FX-ASUS-0901.ROM image from ASUS web site as a ZIP file. Unpacked the 4MB .ROM file to a 4GB FAT32 formatted USB stick on an older working system. Placed the USB stick in one of the USB 2.0 slots on the back of the motherboard. Rebooted and entered BIOS "Advanced Mode". Went to "Tools" and EZ BIOS Upgrade. Pressed F2 and saved the delivered 0705 BIOS to a file I called "Delivered_BIOS_0705.ROM" (this file saved to the same USB Pen Drive the 0901 upgrade was on). After this said it was done, I told it to upgrade using the SABERTOOTH-990FX-ASUS-0901.ROM file on the Pen Drive. It took a little while, but not nearly as long as I expected, then told me it had to reboot. I clicked "OK" and waited. The power supply even turned off. While I was contemplating pressing the "POWER" button, about 10 seconds later the system turned itself back on. i.e. from the time I clicked "OK" with the mouse to reboot until the system rebooted by itself was all hands off, just wait and watch.The BIOS said it needed to enter setup to re-save settings, so press F1. I did. Checked a few settings (my memory was set back to DDR3-1333, and I set it back to DDR3-1600 {what I bought}, for instance). After this, I did a SAVE/Reboot and booted into OpenSUSE 12.1 x86_64. My network driver wasn't working right, so I did a reinstall of the 8168 driver {as described above} and now all appears to be working. My earlier USB and hard disk RAID problems were solved by a 0901 BIOS upgrade!And I'm using this new system to update this review. With 6 processors and x64 Linux, this system is lightning fast (even Firefox and Chrome load in the blink of an eye from the Solid State Disk-SSD)!Now that I know everything works, I'll finish system setup and order another board for hardware backup. What I've learned over decades of computing is motherboard designs only last about 3-6 months. So if you need a drop in replacement for something critical [like a SOHO server system], buy the second motherboard after you know this configuration is going to work. I actually had an older ASUS board fail once and this philosophy minimized my down-time and frustration. Failures rarely happen at convenient times.Update 17-JAN-2012==================I went to order a second system a few days ago and discovered the Phenom II x6 1100T processor is no longer available. AMD set the end of life on these processors for Dec 2011. The AMD web site is a mess for figuring this stuff out, so a day of research which included hard technical data and customer reviews to come up with the answer I needed. The AMD FX-8120 8-core processor is a suitable replacement for most applications if you have an AM3+ socket board. The Sabertooth 990fx is an AM3+ is such a critter.From the reviews I read, the Phenom II processor is a better number cruncher, and the FX is a better data mover. Since I need both, the FX chip will go in the server since that needs scads of threading and not much number crunching. In the development system, I'll use the Phenom II x6 I originally bought. So it turned out well, and the Sabertooth 990fx motherboard after a month of use is still a winner!If anyone is interested I also found a G-Force ASUS GT-520 video card for around $50 which does 1080p HD in hardware, runs two monitors, and is supposed to work well with Linux. It also doesn't have a fan, so no extra noise!
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