ASUS SABERTOOTH Z77 LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
I've been running this Motherboard for about a week now. I'm very happy.
Pro's
This Motherboard looks great with my build, and fits perfectly in the case. It had all the features I was looking for like PCIe 3.0, USB 3.0, SATA 3, great cooling and extensive monitoring capabilities.
Con's
The Sabertooth line does come with ASUS Auto-Tuning overclocking functionality.
Not sure if it is related to the MB, the Proc, or just the GPU, I had to uninstall the onboard Intel HD Graphics on my 3770K in the device manager before the AMD Catalyst software for my 7970 would install successfully.
Corsair C70, Case
ASUS Sabertooth Z77, MB
i7 - 3770K, OC'ed to 4.2GHz, Proc
16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600, RAM
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Ed., OC'ed at 1200MHz and 1600MHz, GPU
Samsung 840 Series 250GB SSD
Corsair AX850, PSU
Corsair H100
3DMARK11 - 9705
9745 Graphics 10056 Physics 8966 Combined
i was a little worried about ordering this after all of the reviews I had read about bent pins, though that's the great thing about amazon, very hassle free in my experience return policy for defective products. For me, I checked and double checked every pin before doing anything. I love it, it looks really nice, and it performs great. I slapped an i7 3770 in this bad boy, I have had only 1 problem with the motherboard so far, mind you I have only had it a few days.
The bios flash usb thing, I loaded the latest bios onto a flash drive, as some posters had mentioned having trouble posting with the factory loaded bios, after I had everything put together, plugged it all in, waited a couple of minutes plugged in the usb drive, pressed the button, it flashed a few times, then went solid. I had the file downloaded unzipped, otherwise untouched but it would not read, I then tried putting only the base files outside of the folders, nothing, left it zipped nothing, guy at geek squad said try another flash drive, so I did, nothing. Finally I just booted into the bios screen, and flashed the latest bios from there, but yea don't think I was doing anything wrong, but I suppose its possible.
Otherwise though the board is working great.
Another problem i thought I was having ended up being windows 8...I have an hd cable hooking my vid card to my tv, and a dvi cable hooking it to my monitor, when i first booted up everything showed on my monitor, as I expected, then it all went blank...I thought it was the board or 8 just not working together, back to vista and everything is peachy, back to 8 and bam same thing, going to black screen after installing windows 8...after the post finished it was reading my tv, which was not on, as the primary display.
I only add this so incase anyone who is reading this also has their pc hooked to their tv will know about this.
This is an excellent board in every way. I have been building my own PCs for many years. This the best board I had so far.
It caused me absolutely zero problems right from the very first moment I put my new PC together. Enough options to add plenty of drives and devices. The unique cooling system works well and to my surprise is not noisy.
To me one of the best things is how much potential and option you have to overclock your system. Overclocking is something that scares a lot of people because they don't have enough insider knowledge and worry about damaging components, yet everyone wants to get the best performance out of their box.
This board makes overclocking so much easier than I thought. Without much knowledge and in about 2 hours I was able to fine tune things to get about 35% more performance. The software that comes with the board lets you do adjustments on the fly without rebooting! You can very simply tweak settings and see if they are stable.
Yes it's not a low cost board, but you get what you pay for. You won't regret going with this board.
I researched about this MB and found that it was easy to overclock. I owned a previous ASUS MB and loved it so I got another one. I only needed two PCIe video slots and four RAM slots. The BIOS has tons of options for tweeking. This is typical of ASUS motherboards. Don't need to go indepth about all the features as it's already been mentioned. If you like quality, reliability and easy over clocking get this MB.
Popped in 32GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 MHz RAM and had no issues associated with a Asus Z77 Sabertooth LGA1155 motherboard with a Intel Quad Core i7 3770 processor aboard. I just got the rig together and working last night and don't plan to overclock too much since I didn't get the 3770K.. I am totally occupied in organizing my hard drives to perform what I need to do. So far, everything is working fine. Just one tip, after assembly and you fire the puppy up to go through the EZ Mode BIOS Setup Program in Chapter 3...pop in the supplied Asus disk to load the drivers or you'll won't make it to Chapter 4 without the Internet connection. I also initially had a 5V powered USB bus connected to power my Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse. The 5V prevented the motherboard from entering POST, which cause me some hours delay to double and triple check the assembly...then I noticed that 5V mobo led brightly lit after pulling the main power cord....and thinking that this mobo has one heck of a cap somewhere...unless.....
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