http://www.tweaktown.com Yesterday we attended an ASUS motherboard
technology seminar in Taipei where we were introduced to its range
of upcoming Intel X79 Express chipset based motherboards. These
motherboards will support second generation Intel Core i7
processors for high-end desktop systems using the new and larger
LGA 2011 socket. Followers of ASUS will know the Sabertooth
motherboard from previous generations and some will also be happy
to know that it is back again with the X79 Express chipset.
Impressive cooling is a big part of the Sabertooth and Jack Cheng
who is with the ASUS motherboard R&D team and was kind enough
to go on video and tell us about some of the ASUS driven features
of this motherboard. It's not just cooling though, with the
included software powered by the impressive Digi+ VRM power control
design you get really good monitoring (12 different parts of the
board are digitally thermally monitored) and control over the board
and all the different aspects of it using the included Thermal
Radar software. There are no real big single handed massive
features that will take the crown for the Sabertooth, but the
message being sent is that it's "tough". It's designed with "TUF"
components and plenty of cooling to provide what looks to be very
good stability under all sorts of conditions. The TUF thermal armor
cooling design is said to reduce temperatures by up to 7.4 degrees
Celsius on the USB 3.0 and back I/O panel ICs and there is also
said to be a 5.4 degrees Celsius drop on the PCH area of the
motherboard. One of the additional features of the Sabertooth is
ASUS SSD Caching. Some of you will know Intel SRT and it didn't get
very good press on the Z68 platform and ASUS recognized that and
have developed ASUS SSD Caching. It's similar to how Intel SRT
works by adding an SSD to a system with a large HDD to improve
performance on most commonly accessed data, but is much easier to
use. All you need to do is install the included softwar