ASUS Full 970-990FX Lineup

Damn_Smooth · May 19, 2011

I want to see the price difference between the 2. If it is significant, I'll be going Sabretooth. I just wish it had UEFI.

I've already decided that I'll be going Asus for Bulldozer.

damric · May 19, 2011

Sabretooth would just look badass in my case

Damn_Smooth · May 19, 2011

damric said:
Sabretooth would just look badass in my case

I couldn't agree more man, I think this is the best looking board I've ever seen.

Kitkat · May 20, 2011

Damn_Smooth said:
I want to see the price difference between the 2. If it is significant, I'll be going Sabretooth. I just wish it had UEFI.

I've already decided that I'll be going Asus for Bulldozer.

they all have U- bios and yeah i think it looks sweet too

Damn_Smooth · May 20, 2011

Kitkat said:
they all have U- bios and yeah i think it looks sweet too

If you're sure about that, I found my next board.

micropage7 · May 20, 2011

Damn_Smooth said:
I've already decided that I'll be going Asus for Bulldozer.

yep. asus wins coz it has well market image and has many products :shadedshu

Damn_Smooth · May 20, 2011

I want the customization of it. With my current board, I can only adjust voltages by .25 increments, and there are no half steppings in multipliers.

That and I can't get over how awesome the Sabretooth looks. :rockout:

legends84 · May 21, 2011

I've found this picture on my friend facebook when he attending some kind of Asus event.. is that the looks of crosshair V formula?

_JP_ · May 21, 2011

I want the SABERTOOTH so bad.

mav2000 · May 21, 2011

That seems to be it.... I wish there was a better picture

Funtoss · May 21, 2011

I wish i had the money to buy this or at least upgrade to this :L

Damn_Smooth · May 22, 2011

legends84 said:
I've found this picture on my friend facebook when he attending some kind of Asus event.. is that the looks of crosshair V formula?

[url]http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/1694/23007210150178076592261.jpg[/URL]

Nice find man, I didn't even know Asus had an event. That definitely looks like the Crosshair V to me. Or what I'd imagine it to look like at least.

Kitkat · May 25, 2011

BMarqa · May 27, 2011

How much this will be ?

Damn_Smooth · May 27, 2011

We are all waiting as patiently as we can to find out.

sandiegoborn32 · May 27, 2011

The Crosshair V Formula looks BEAST!

Damn_Smooth · May 30, 2011

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/990fx-sli-am3,2953.html

The comparison couldn’t get any more even. Our P8Z68-V Pro sells for the same $210 Asus plans to ask for the Sabertooth 990FX, and the Core i5-2400 sells for $5 more than AMD’s Phenom II X4 980. With all other components equal, this is a true head-to-head.

It is just a comparison of SLI on Intel and AMD boards, but I thought the revelation of a $210 price point for Sabretooth was interesting.

I'm in.

Heavy_MG · May 30, 2011

Damn_Smooth said:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/990fx-sli-am3,2953.html

It is just a comparison of SLI on Intel and AMD boards, but I thought the revelation of a $210 price point for Sabretooth was interesting.

I'm in.

The Phenom II 980BE with a 990X is quite close to a i5 2400.
However Tom's also said this;
"The bad news is that those Bulldozer-based chips are still not ready. Processors based on the B0 stepping are in the hands of motherboard manufacturers. But they’re all telling me that performance is nowhere near what they were expecting, and it’ll take another stepping to fix them."
Other reviewers saiy the same thing,but I think they're just reposting what Tom's hardware is saying. Until AMD can confirm it,they're just hating on BD.

Damn_Smooth · May 31, 2011

I'll believe a delay when AMD says it themselves. I thought the B0 stepping was pre-release anyways.

I could be wrong but I thought I read that somewhere.

I'll google it and see what I can come up with.

Damn_Smooth · May 31, 2011

Well that was pointless, it just lead me to a bunch of other forums and they couldn't agree whether it meant pre-release or unlocked.

Does anyone here know for sure?

Heavy_MG · May 31, 2011

Damn_Smooth said:
I'll believe a delay when AMD says it themselves. I thought the B0 stepping was pre-release anyways.

I could be wrong but I thought I read that somewhere.

I'll google it and see what I can come up with.

I'm thinking the same thing.
Apparently there is also a stepping B1,which you could assume is the final release. Having 2 chips as a pre-release doesn't make sense,unless B0 is a engineering sample,B1 is the finished chip for testing purpose only.
They are too quick to assume that "BD has awful performance". A pre-release/Engineering Sample chip usually has leser performance,lower clocks, or some bugs.

Damn_Smooth · May 31, 2011

Heavy_MG said:
I'm thinking the same thing.
Apparently there is also a stepping B1,which you could assume is the final release. Having 2 chips as a pre-release doesn't make sense,unless B0 is a engineering sample,B1 is the finished chip for testing purpose only.
They are too quick to assume that "BD has awful performance". A pre-release/Engineering Sample chip usually has leser performance,lower clocks, or some bugs.

That does make sense.

I guess it wouldn't really bother me too much if it was delayed though. I would get the Sabretooth soon and then just save for Bulldozer when it does launch.

The only thing I am impatient about is benchmarks, and I don't really play them anyway.

Heavy_MG · May 31, 2011

Damn_Smooth said:
That does make sense.

I guess it wouldn't really bother me too much if it was delayed though. I would get the Sabretooth soon and then just save for Bulldozer when it does launch.

The only thing I am impatient about is benchmarks, and I don't really play them anyway.

I'm liking the Sabertooth too,but I'm torn between it,the Asus TUF,and the Crosshair V.
I am kinda ticked off with Gigabyte since they offer no BIOS update from AM3+ support while Asus,MSI,etc. offer support on select motherboards. I do realize the older 8 series chipset may hinder performance,but I'd like to try it out before dropping cash on a new board and ram.
I agree with you there,I could care less about benchmarks. As long as it kicks butt I'm happy.

Damn_Smooth · May 31, 2011

Heavy_MG said:
I'm liking the Sabertooth too,but I'm torn between it,the Asus TUF,and the Crosshair V.
I am kinda ticked off with Gigabyte since they offer no BIOS update from AM3+ support while Asus,MSI,etc. offer support on select motherboards. I do realize the older 8 series chipset may hinder performance,but I'd like to try it out before dropping cash on a new board and ram.
I agree with you there,I could care less about benchmarks. As long as it kicks butt I'm happy.

I really like the color scheme of the Sabretooth, so that's what made the decision for me.

I can't complain about the $210 price either.

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Memory	16GB G-skill Trident X 1866 Cl. 8
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Mouse	Cooler Master MM710
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Software	Windows 7 Pro
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Motherboard	Crosshair V Formula Z
Cooling	Corsair H110 with AeroCool Shark 140mm fans
Memory	16GB G-skill Trident X 1866 Cl. 8
Video Card(s)	HIS 7970 IceQ X² GHZ Edition
Storage	OCZ Vector 256GB SSD & 1Tb piece of crap
Display(s)	acer H243H
Case	NZXT Phantom 820 matte black
Audio Device(s)	Nada
Power Supply	NZXT Hale90 V2 850 watt
Software	Windows 7 Pro
Benchmark Scores	Lesbians are hot!!!

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Power Supply	Silverstone 600 Watt
Mouse	Logitech G502
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Processor	Intel Core i7 3770k
Motherboard	Asus Maximus IV Extreme-Z Z68 1155
Cooling	NZXT Kraken X60
Memory	8GB Ripjaw-X Red 1866mhz
Video Card(s)	2X ASUS GTX780 DCUII OC
Storage	Crucial M4 128gb+Intel 320 160gb Gen3+2TB BLack WD+1TB Black WD
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Audio Device(s)	ASUS XONAR D2X
Power Supply	Corsair HX1050wt
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Motherboard	Lenovo 2344 (Mobile Intel QM77 Express Chipset)
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Mouse	Logitech
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Motherboard	Asus P5B-E Plus
Cooling	Zalman CNPS 9700 NT
Memory	Patriot 4GB 800MHz DDR2
Video Card(s)	EVGA GTX 460 1GB
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