ASUS Sabertooth X58 LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Great x58 board, usb 3 and sata III. Heavy duty mil-spec components on the board.

Cons: NB runs toasty. Wish Asus offered something more than just a passive cooler on it

Pros: it looked good on paper and when it worked

Cons: they fail and take out equipment with them and when you do the advanced replacement (Because you need them) you get a used MB that is not working right, we have over 20 pc's and have always used asus until this year due to the fact that these the rampage keep failing so we have changed to another company and even more so will never deal with asus AGAIN EVER. read below

Overall Review: on one of our rampage fails we sent back the old mb and received one with a note that said verified by so and so. one sata port was bad and 2 usb ports. anyhow we returned the old checked and verified they recieved it. 2 months later now they are saying they are billing us for it because they don't "show" to have received it and want tracking number again----as if anyone I know still keeps tracking numbers after verified delivery!!!!! I'm sure some people do but not us. but I guess with how major corporations can't do their job we all have to keep them for years now to do their job for them. If you read around the forums you will find this is not an isolated case of bad mb's or components and then the ripoff of them losing their records and charging clients. In my case they will lose a lot more than they will "attempt" to charge.

Pros: Latest generation X58 Motherboard that resolves issues seen with earlier X58/1366 motherboards (with all manufactures.) Great value for features and build quality. Five year ASUS warranty. Compatible with all Intel i7 processors. Comprehensive BIOS with extensive OCing options. Above average user manual, comprehensive, informative and easy to read (yes, the English is just about perfect.) Extensive QVL memory table in the manual. USB, Audio, and IEEE 1394 connectors all located at the bottom of the board, the best location IMO. POST is faster than other X58 motherboards/BIOS. Easily usable for enthusiast OCing or as an enterprise type board.

Cons: To me, the only real con is the included Realtek audio software and the ridiculous pre-defined EQ settings and no user adjustable EQ. Not quite a con, but the POST State LEDs on this board can fool you. They are supposed to come on if a problem is found with a device (CPU, DRAM, VGA card, and HDD) during booting the system. I decided to reseat the CPU heatsink, and when I started the PC afterward, the CPU, DRAM, and VGA LEDs came on and no POST, etc. Turned out all I had to do was reset the CMOS and all was fine, but to give you the impression that the CPU or DRAM has a problem when it was a BIOS reset? Scared me! All I did was remove the CPU heatsink and replace it, nothing else. The chipset and RAID/AHCI drivers on the ASUS website for this board are not the latest versions, get those from Intel's website. For extreme gamers, "only" two PCIe x16 slots available, so not the ultimate. They are spec'd to run at x16 speed when both are used, in contrast to other boards I have s

Overall Review: This board started fine on its first power-up and fresh install of Win7 64 bit. There is an interesting statement in the manual's Memory configurations section that may explain some of the missing memory issues seen with X58 motherboards. To quote: "Due to Intel spec definition, XMP DIMMs and DDR3-1600 are supported for one DIMM per channel only." I am using three 2GB G.SKILL DIMMs with 1600 MHz capability and all are recognized, but that is within this spec and not much memory. Some of the comments regarding this board's colors are childish, the colors are muted and more of a gold or brass and light tan tone. It does not look like camouflage. POST is faster than another brand of X58 board I own, but a bit slower than several G45 and P41 socket 775 boards I have. I read that X58 boards POST slower intentionally but I can't recall the details. I am very pleased with this board and recommend it.

Pros: Layout is amazing. It's spacious, has an insane amount of e-sata and USB ports (i cant find enough things to USE with all these usb ports!) and lots of different sound plugs (I'm not a huge music person so I just use the green plug for my speakers...). FAST FAST FAST. Recognized all my ram, my drives, my card, this thing is blistering.

Cons: BEASTLY! Make sure you have a spacious case. I bought a massive "mid tower" cooler master SNIPER and it fits snugly. But I'd imagine in a smaller case you'll be jockeying for space for your devices.

Overall Review: I did a review last week about issues with the CPU_LED and DRAM_LED lights consistently on when trying to boot. I wanted to add some advice for anyone having this issue. UP near the CPU is a 8 pin power plug. Half of it is covered by a black cap. I didn't realize i was supposed to remove the darned cap and plug in 2 4-pin atx power. As soon as I did that, my board booted immediately. I think i RMA'd one board for no reason because of this (I feel pretty special!) So anyone having issues - double, if not triple, check your 2x 4-pin atx connectors are seated in the connector right above the CPU. I had no problems with seating my ram or anything else, it was just that stinky power connector!!! BAH!!! One noobie mistake cost me a week of waiting for an RMA. Oh well. I know better now.

Pros: This motherboard has great features for its price: x2 6GB sata ports, SLi/Crossfire support, and enough RAM slots to add more memory as needed. I was confident that this motherboard had everything I wanted, so I got another one from Newegg for my girlfriend to build a computer.

Cons: I've had my motherboard for 3-4 months now and at random points my computer will shut off. I've swapped out all of the hardware and had the same results. While the issues with my motherboard haven't bothered me enough to RMA it, I've been very disappointed with the one I bought for my girlfriend. Just like many of the other reviewers, we soon realized that we received the board with bent CPU socket pins, causing it to not recognize all of the RAM. Since this is physical damage, I've been told that I can't return it to Newegg. I also contacted ASUS, waited a week for a response, and was told I'd have to pay $120 for repairs...for which I don't understand why I wouldn't just spend a little more and buy a motherboard from another manufacturer.

Overall Review: This has been my first experience personally dealing with faulty hardware and I've been very disappointed. I'm a computer technician and have been recommending ASUS as a quality brand - something I don't feel comfortable doing anymore. Think twice about this one. Problems on two separate motherboards is not a fluke.

Pros: I used this for my first rig I've ever built myself and everything went extremely smoothly. Instructions were clear and easy to follow. Has all the features of much more expensive boards - SATA III, USB 3.0. Excellent design and feels sturdy. Recognized all my components on the first try including 12GB G.Skill RAM DDR3 1333 MHZ even though it wasn't in the specs. Had two SATA III cables and two SATA II cables, so I won't need any more of those. Has really nice features for board performance, fan speed, case temps. Maybe that is standard, but these were really nice and easy to use. Just an excellent experience with the this MOBO!

Cons: I think one of the reasons this board is a little cheaper is because it has only two graphics expansion slots. Not a problem for me as I'll probably buy a newer GPU before I'd get a third to put in Crossfire etc. Also, with wide video cards, the PCI slots get a little cramped. It fit my Sapphire Radeon 5770 just fine, but if you need a lot of expansion slots, might want to look elsewhere.

Overall Review: My build: i7-930 Asus Sabertooth x58 MOBO 12 GB (4x 3GB) G.Skill DDR3 1333 MHz Sapphire Radeon HD 5770 1 GB WD 1 TB Caviar Black SATA III HDD Asus 24X DVD-RW Corsair 650TX PSU Cooler Master Centurion 590

Pros: The fit and finish is excellent. The components, layout, and weight, exude quality. The relative simplicity and well-thought design make the Sabertooth a convincing solution.

Cons: I am a bit apprehensive with the integrated Renesas USB 3.0 controller. Maximum transfer speeds to a Buffalo external USB 3.0 hard drive is 53 MB/s. Using Buffalo’s own PCIe USB 3.0 controller produces higher transfer rates. As I often move large music files of 300GB and greater, USB 3.0 throughput is a significant feature.

Overall Review: With such attention to detail, perhaps Asus will employ such attributes across its entire product line.

Pros: Booted right off the bat and with a little bios tweaking got it to see the memory correctly. Excellent and easy one click overclock in the bios with plenty of options to play. Appears to be very well built. I have only used Asus boards for a long time now. Very, very sexy looking in my HAF X case.

Cons: Really stupid layout. I mean really, really stupid. With any dual slot vid card, and let's be real, anyone who buys this board will use a dual slot card, the ONLY PCI slot is unusable. If you use two dual slot cards, the only PCI and one of the PCI-E x1 slots are not able to be used. That is stupid and irritating but what annoys me most is that running dual slot cards in SLI, the top card almost touches the bottom card with no space for the fans to get air so the top card will always run hotter. This is the first board I have bought that spaced them this close and that is so stupid I can't believe they released a board with that major design flaw. Had I known this by looking at the pics on the site, I never would have bought this board. The other thing that bothers me, but I knew before buying is that there are only 8 SATA connectors when most full tower cases have room for 11 or 12 drives. I won't take an egg off for that as there are other solutions.

Overall Review: This is a very high quality board with a great bios that works well and it just looks darn sexy. I would not recommend buying if you want to run SLI or want to use a PCI slot. Why the PCI slot was not moved to the bottom of the board and why the vid card slots are so close together is a HUGE mystery. I can only assume that the person who designed this board does not actually build computers and his bosses must have been out to lunch that day. Solid board, bad for SLI or peripherals.