Asus Sabertooth 990FX Motherboard Review

Today we are using the top of the line AMD Phenom II X6 1110T processor with the ASUS Sabertooth 990FX motherboard.

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Asus Sabretooth 990FX System:
Processor: AMD Phenom II X6 1100T (gaming tests @ 4.3ghz)
Motherboard: Asus Sabretooth 990FX
Cooler: Antec Kuhler H20 920
Memory: Corsair Dominator 1600mhz 9-9-9-24
Power Supply: OCZ ZX 1250W
Optical Drive: Asus BluRay SBC-06d1S-U
Chassis: Thermaltake Level 10 GT
Monitors: 3x Dell U2410 and Dell U3011 Ultrasharp.
HDD/SSD: Intel 40GB SSD & 1TB Samsung (OCZ Vertex 3 240GB for CrystalDiskMark & HDTach)

Graphics cards for primary game testing:
AMD HD6990 / QuadFireX
AMD HD6970 (3 screen testing) / 2 & 3 way CrossfireX
AMD HD6950 / 2 way CrossfireX
Nvidia GTX590
Nvidia GTX580 / 2 way SLI
Nvidia GTX570

Graphics card for secondary (non gaming) synthetic testing:
AMD HD5770

Software:
Windows 7 64 Bit Enterprise Edition
Fraps Professional
SiSoft Sandra
CPUz
GPUz
CPUID Hardware Monitor Professional
Cinebench R11.5 64 bit
CyberLink PowerDvd 11 Ultra
Cyberlink Media Espresso
CrystalMark
HDTach
HQV Benchmark V 2.0
3DMark 11
Unigine Heaven Benchmark

Games:
Far Cry 2
Resident Evil 5
Battlefield Bad Company 2
Tom Clancy HAWX 2
Alien V Predator
Lost Planet 2
Metro 2033
Dead Space 2
Batman Arkham Asylum
Battleforge
Crysis Warhead
Devil May Cry 4
Left4Dead 2
Total War: Shogun 2
Home Front

All the latest BIOS updates and drivers are used during testing. We perform under real world conditions, meaning KitGuru tests across five closely matched runs and averages out the results to get an accurate median figure.

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