ASUS Sabertooth P67A B3 Review
CineBench, PC Mark Vantage
Published: 8th April 2011 | Source: ASUS | Price: £149.99 |
CineBench R11.5
In CineBench testing the Sabertooth is identical to the Maximus IV in the CPU test and just a shade behind when it comes to the OpenGL testing. Of course the OpenGL test also takes into account drivers and as the GTX570 is running on updated drivers it might be due to that. Either way it's as close as makes no difference.
PC Mark Vantage
Finally PC Mark from Futuremark replicates daily usage without needing to sit for hours loading webpages and the like and the ASUS P67 Sabertooth once again makes a mockery of its place in the pricing tier by being only a couple of hundred points off of the vastly more expensive offerings it's competing against in our graph.
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more drool time
please stop putting XXXXXXXXXXX-rated nerd porn on here - my ticker cannot take it
the whole package - awesome board
please stop putting XXXXXXXXXXX-rated nerd porn on here - my ticker cannot take it
the whole package - awesome board
Hmmmm.... I need to RMA my B2 P8P67 soon (when I can be bothered) don't know whether to upgrade to the Sabretooth or not but this review certainly has got me thinking about it. 
What about SATA performance?
Arrggghh I had decided on the UD4 and now you rave about this. My head can't take it. I think i'll go for this simply because it's ALL black.
Great review as per.
Great review as per.
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?
an owl to owl (lol) between the NH-D14 and the new NH-C14?
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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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What about SATA performance? |
That is awesome. A motherboard with a color scheme the D14 can actually work with? Crazy. Now we need some military-esque looking ram.
Well for my June Sandy Bridge build, I had my eye on this one because of the styling, which I absolutely love. Either this or perhaps the UD7, but this is great bang for buck.
Bryan what kind of temps did you get with the C12P?
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That is awesome. A motherboard with a color scheme the D14 can actually work with? Crazy. Now we need some military-esque looking ram. |
Ohh thats awesome, looks like gun parts on the top of the ram. Ok now I need a matte military case. lol
I just got one of these boards, with a 2500K, 8GB Corsair Vengeance (2x4G
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
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
You could do a Asrock Extreme 6 review. Same price than the Sabertooth. Asrock boards are showing to be very good today.
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
wow nice one from asus, shocked by price in positive way
Good stuff VonBlade.
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.
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.
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
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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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 |
Yup, i know that. Typical Asian run computer shops around here, they don't know what they actually stock or what hardware is used for what.
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
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
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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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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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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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. |
Awesome mobo, the thermal Armor really does work and adding the assist fan on the board really helps to blow the hot air away from the cpu and ram slots. I got a -5c degree change in most censors on the board. Adding a 5.99 assist fan is worth the investment. I haven't overclocked my i5 2500k yet I just have the intel heat sink on the cpu so I'm only going to oc it to maybe 4.3 or so. I just need a little assistance on how to oc the cpu with the Asus bios.
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