ASUS Sabertooth X79 LGA 2011 Intel X79 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Very stable board so far have been running it for a few months now. Has five year warranty. You can tell that asus uses better parts to make this compared to my old m3a79t deluxe. Overclocks very good and simple to use BIOS. Can use your mouse in it to which is very cool.

Cons: Price.

Pros: none

Cons: DOA, Broken upon arrival

Other Thoughts: upon receiving this board I immediately noticed that is was missing the driver disc and board extensions. then when I take the board out of the box and look it over I realized that there were damaged pins for the CPU. damaged either in shipping which I highly doubt because the box was fine. I call NEWEGG and they tell me that its ASUS's fault and then I call ASUS and they tell me its NEWEGG. Both give me the runaround and neither will RMA. The REP for ASUS was a real jerk and said " Looks like you just bought a very expensive paper weight." I had high hopes for this board and now I will never buy anything from ASUS again!

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Valued Customer,

Sorry to hear that the board came DOA due to bent pins found. Call newegg and ask to speak to a manager and see if they will be able to replace it for you as is seems they may have given you a unit that is used if it's missing the driver disc and some accessories. Let them know that the unit is not even 30 days old and that you are still under the return policy. I have seen on some of the reviews that some other customers were able to get a one time courtesy replacement eventhough they also had bent pins.

Guess it depends on who you speak with.

If they will not honor the replacement then please provide me with your serial number so I can see how much we charge to replace a board with bent pins.

You can email me at cl-jeffrey@asus.com

ASUS strives to meet and exceeds our customer expectations within our warranty policy.

Regards,

Jeffrey
ASUS Customer Loyalty USA

Pros: vno problems.
I was using many motherboards Sabertooth brand in lats 1 year.
Installing driver for the LAN on board is tricky but possible. You have to select closest matching LAN card model and select closest matching driver from DVD. I am using 2008 R2 OS.

Cons: None

Pros: Easy setup. Build went off with out a problem. All the memory is seen by the board.

Cons: eSATA and firewire do not work...Tried turning them on in the BIOS and still got nothing out of it. Reading more into it, I am not the only person to have this problem.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Valued Customer,

Sorry to hear that you are having issues with the sata port and firewire.

Have you tried updating the bios and the drivers to see if that will resolve your issue with the sata ports and firewire.

Here is a link below where you can update the sata drivers and regarding the firewire, please update the drivers for chipset.

http://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/SABERTOOTH_X79/#support_Download_30

If you are still having issues, please remove the CPU and check for bent pins. If you have no bent pins, your bios and drivers updated, then you will have to send the unit in for service.

If you have any questions or comments you can email me at cl-jeffrey@asus.com which I reside in the U.S

ASUS strives to meet and exceeds our customer expectations within our warranty policy.

Regards,

Jeffrey

Pros: Everything is great about it. Very nice to have 8 DIMM slots. Works great!

Cons: None

Pros: good features.

Cons: terrible RMA warranty policy and process.

Other Thoughts: 1 of 5 boards failed after only a few months. It stopped recognizing full 64GB RAM, and only recognized 48GB instead. Asus has an option to "Overnight" an RMA replacement board, which they promised to have the board shipped and to us within 2 business days. That did NOT happen! Instead, after 3 or 4 calls to find out WHY it wasn't to us as promised, they FINALLY shipped it out 4 business days later, and eventually got it to us in a WEEK. When a form indicates OVERNIGHT, a company should abide by this, and be forthcoming. They also should REFUND the charge when they are NOT able to abide by what they promised. We asked for a refund of the Overngith Shipping charge, and the customer service person flatly told us No, and claimed they shipped it Overnight when they actually ended up shipping it via Ground (after we called them several times to find out where the replacement was that didn't arrive as promised). This is terrible policy and customer service. Yes, it's better than some other brands. But when it is listed on the form that a replacement will be sent OVERNIGHT, and then ALSO indicated that it will be sent to the customer by a certain date, and then NEVER deliver on that promise, it is actually worse to deal with in certain ways. Definitely CANNOT recommend Asus motherboards, especially for a high end board like this while they have such policies and practices.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Valued Customer,

Please provide RMA number, serial number, and tracking number to dispute the charges and request for refund.

Once received, I will provide to the xship department. I believe you already have their email.

If you have any questions or comments you can email me again at cl-jeffrey@asus.com which I reside in the U.S

ASUS strives to meet and exceeds our customer expectations within our warranty policy.

Regards,

Jeffrey

Pros: This board is amazing, it allows me to put as much ram as I want or need. It has an amazing boot-up time and does not get to hot, I ran a couple tests and it stayed piety cool.

Cons: I keep getting an over-clock error, cant figure out if it's a problem with my board or that I cant handle over-clocking.

Pros: As usual the product was shipped quickly by Newegg.

Cons: The board locks up and will not boot.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Valued Customer,

Sorry to hear that you are having an issue with not booting up and will not boot. Please try another hard drive and only have the bare minimum installed, CPU, VGA, and one stick of RAM.

Are you able to get into the bios. Please let me know the specs of your build.

If you have any questions or comments you can email me again at cl-jeffrey@asus.com which I reside in the U.S

ASUS strives to meet and exceeds our customer expectations within our warranty policy.

Regards,

Jeffrey

Pros: nice setup. 8 mem slots are great! good base for epic build.

Cons: none

Pros: The motherboard is working correctly for some reason the sofware install and and the drivers didn't cooperate with regards to the network adapter don't know why my second instal on an isolated drive worked and it seems to be working properly.

Cons: I had a problem with the first install not the motherboards fault maybe the order in witch I put things in not realy sure.

Other Thoughts: na