Official ASUS AMD 900 Series Overview

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Official ASUS AMD 900 Series Overview

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For those of you who have been anxiously awaiting the new AMD 900 series chipsets and motherboards, this post will give you an idea of some of the performance numbers as well as list some of the features of ASUS’ new 900 series AMD motherboards. As well as features and functionality of the chipset, I’ll also go over the ASUS specific additions on our new AMD 900 series motherboards. These chipsets and motherboards are optimized for current generation CPUs, e.g. hexa-core Thubans, as well as AMD’s upcoming Zambezi “Bulldozer” octa-core CPUs. The socket will be AM3+ but will be backwards compatible with socket AM3 CPUs.

The 900 series chipset is the replacement to AMD’s 800 series so our new boards will be replacing boards like the Crosshair IV Formula, Crosshair IV Extreme, and M4A89GTD PRO to name a few. Three of our main 900 series boards are the M5A99X EVO, Sabertooth 990FX, and Crosshair V Formula. Both the Sabertooth 990FX and the Crosshair V Formula will be available at launch and the M5A99X EVO and Thunderbolt version of Crosshair V Formula will be available later.

Some of the advantages of 900 series over the 800 series as well as some ASUS specific features on our new AMD 900 series boards are USB 3.0 on the new and speedy ASMedia USB3 controller, SLI, UEFI BIOS, our DIGI+ VRM, native SATA 6G with RAID support, AI Suite II with EPU and TPU switches, Auto Tuning, optimized layout with dual slot spacing of PCI-e slots, advanced fan controls with all have at least two 4-pin fan headers that allow for fan control

These new boards are the first AMD board to have UEFI BIOS and fully support 2.2+ TB hard drives and they are the first AMD boards to feature our DIGI+ VRM for enhanced stability and overclockability. Also, these will be the first AMD chipset boards to support SLI.

The Sabertooth 990FX and the Crosshair V Formula both support 3-way SLI. The Crosshair V Formula also supports 4-way SLI using ASUS’ ROG Xpander.
To give you an idea of the performance on our 990FX boards, here are some results of various benchmarks comparisons between the Sabertooth 990FX and our 890FX ROG board, Crosshair IV Formula. The tests on both motherboards were done using an X6 1055T Thuban, 4GB of 1600MHz CAS 9 memory, and an ASUS GTX570. These tests were done with no overclocking.

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The following hard drive performance tests were done using SATA III SSDs connected to SATA III ports.

Sabertooth 990FX HD Performance with C300 128GB
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Crosshair IV Formula HD Performance with C300 128GB
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Sabertooth 990FX HD Performance with Vertex 3
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MaxxMem^2 1.95 Single – Sabertooth 990FX
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MaxxMem^2 1.95 Multiple – Sabertooth 990FX1.8
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MaxxMem^2 1.95 Single – Crosshair IV Formula
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MaxxMem^2 1.95 Multiple – Crosshair IV Formula
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USB3 Performance Vertex3 ASMedia Adapter – Sabertooth 990FX
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If you would like detailed information on these boards, features, and performance, check out these next 4 videos containing unboxings, overviews, Q&A, etc. The first video features a Q&A session regarding our new AMD 900 series motherboards.


The video below features an unboxing of our Sabertooth 990FX.


The next video contains an overview of the Sabertooth 990FX.


And lastly, check out the Crosshair V Formula unboxing below.
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Re: Official ASUS AMD 900 Series Overview

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Ive been wanting to upgrade for a while and the Sabertooth for my AMD build seems to be the one I want and hopefully can afford to go with! Since this post is thread has been here for a little while what is the most current Revision of the AMD FX Sabertooth board and where can I get the best price! I want to pair it with the AMD FX-8150 Zambezi 3.6GHz Socket AM3+ and I might have answered my own question with these links here but if anything if there is a better price out there doesnt hurt to shop around!

ASUS Sabertooth 990FX AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS



http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... nAod-3oAPQ

AMD FX-8150 Zambezi 3.6GHz Socket AM3+ 125W Eight-Core Desktop Processor FD8150FRGUBOX


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6819103960
Thanks


PS I would appreciate any recommendations on memory from some one with this setup! i was considering G-Skill and Corsair but like to hear what other owners are using!
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