ASUS Sabertooth P67A B3 Review
Up Close Part 2
Published: 8th April 2011 | Source: ASUS | Price: £149.99 |
Up Close Part 2
Looking closer at the Sabertooth you can see both how much better things look when covered, although without losing any functionality, but also how airflow is now more important because you haven't got the natural case throughflow to keep everything frosty.
If you use a tower cooler rather than a face-down one then ASUS recommend additional cooling to push air beneath the Thermal Armor or to fit a 40mm fan for the purpose which fits beneath the cover just below the CPU socket.
There is no doubt that the heatsinks are a work of art. They're so gorgeous and it's great to see ASUS have continued to use brown power connectors that match so well. Although the fan headers and COM port are still white as we pointed out in the X58 review. Perhaps the costings are too great. It's just a tiny issue as the Thermal Armor covers most sins and once you've stuck a fan in they match the fan connector just fine.
Everything is laid out in an easy-to-get-to fashion. So often we've found the 8pin CPU connector tucked away in a place you need fingers like pipe-cleaners to reach. A lot of thought has clearly gone into this.
Connectivity is covered by 4 SATA II ports and 4 SATA 3 ones. Alongside that is a USB3.0 header.
Round the back we have all the connections we'd expect with a dual-purpose PS2 port, plentiful USB headers, firewire, e-SATA and the rest.
One small thing is the placement of the sticker over the RAM slots. We've always disliked companies continuing to sell you a product after you've brought it, and this sticker here can be put in that category. Ordinarily this would be a minor issue, but it's vital if manufacturers do want to put sticky things in places you need that the sticker is of the very finest quality, otherwise you have the problem we had. Gently pulling it off it decided to leave bits of it behind. A real pain to clean up. If we've brought the item we know how great it is. Even if we're perusing it the box is clear enough about what the various bits are. Stop placing stickers on our stuff!
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please stop putting XXXXXXXXXXX-rated nerd porn on here - my ticker cannot take it
the whole package - awesome board
Great review as per.
an owl to owl (lol) between the NH-D14 and the new NH-C14?
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Originally Posted by zeppas
Awesome, love the sabertooth. Speaking of downward facing coolers, when will we see a head to head, a mano a mano, an owl to owl (lol) between the NH-D14 and the new NH-C14? |
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Originally Posted by hurrakan
What about SATA performance? |
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Originally Posted by Tortuga
That is awesome. A motherboard with a color scheme the D14 can actually work with? Crazy. Now we need some military-esque looking ram. |
and a Thermaltake Frio cooler. All going good so far.Couple things about the installation process I think might be worth mentioning.
1.) The Sabertooth comes with a sticker over the ram slots, which needs to be removed carefully, or else it can tear and leave parts stuck to the slots. Just be careful; I had to take quite a bit of time clearing small parts of sticker off >.>
2.) With a Thermaltake Frio installed and Vengeance in place in slots A2 and B2 (Asus recommend populating these first), there is *no* room left to use slots A1 and B1 with more Vengeance. The Frio blocks slot A1. Ram with lower heat spreaders might fit, I don't know.
It looks like one hell of a lovely board, and I think I'm going to have a fun weekend testing it
Im pretty sure the word you were looking for was bought not brought.We've always disliked companies continuing to sell you a product after you've brought it, and this sticker here can be put in that category. Ordinarily this would be a minor issue, but it's vital if manufacturers do want to put sticky things in places you need that the sticker is of the very finest quality, otherwise you have the problem we had. Gently pulling it off it decided to leave bits of it behind. A real pain to clean up. If we've brought the item we know how great it is
Nice review; seeing all these close up photos, I feel like borging together a Sabertooth-est cover out of aluminium for a future build. Teh ideas are aflowing.
How's a guy to chose what to swap out for.
dunno bout this one though with the shrowd over most of the mobo, on one hand it looks cleaner, on the other seems like the likely hood of dust getting in is actually greater and then you'd have to remove it to clean it anyway. and weather it would actually help with cooling is another thing.
seems a bit pricey too here's the price at one of my local shops. Our Price: $9999.00
That must be one hell of a board
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Originally Posted by GameOverAUS
Too many awesome looking new boards with all more or less the same stuff on em coming out. How's a guy to chose what to swap out for. dunno bout this one though with the shrowd over most of the mobo, on one hand it looks cleaner, on the other seems like the likely hood of dust getting in is actually greater and then you'd have to remove it to clean it anyway. and weather it would actually help with cooling is another thing. seems a bit pricey too here's the price at one of my local shops. Our Price: $9999.00 That must be one hell of a board |
The same place also told some guy that IDE is the same as Sata.
well yes it performs the same function but it's not the same
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Originally Posted by SirPhilby
I really really like this board and would be interested in getting this and an i5 2500k if I didn't have a sneaking suspiscion that they'd release 1154 socket in 3 month's time... |
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Originally Posted by SirPhilby
I really really like this board and would be interested in getting this and an i5 2500k if I didn't have a sneaking suspiscion that they'd release 1154 socket in 3 month's time... |
EDIT: Even though the CPU costs like £2300.
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Originally Posted by adamjamesroe
No, its all about Socket 1567; would love some company to release a consumer level mobo that supports this 8 Core 16 Threads of pure Xeon X7550 Power!!! EDIT: Even though the CPU costs like £2300. |
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