ASUS TUF SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 Socket AM3+ DDR3 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 AMD 990FX ATX Motherboard

I bought this MB recently. Shipping time & packaging was great but the MB is a nightmare. After insalling it it recognized most of my componenets with no problem except 1 of my graphics cards. I am running 2 identicle graphics cards but the system was only showing 1 of them. Turns out 1 of the PCIE slots is not working. Both my cards are good as they both work ok in the working PCIE slot that is funtional. The bad one has a red light light on it on the MB by that slot.Also after running a few minutes or after any attempts to update windows on a clean install or most any other system drivers I kept getting the wonderful BSOD. I have contacted Amazon to return it & they are fully refunding me for the board because they don't have any more. So I now have to reorder from someone else at a higher price. I am not a happy camper on either case at hand. I have another board on order & will update after I recieve that board if its shipped & recieved with no problems. Was really looking forward to runing my new system with this board & my new AMD 8350 CPU. I just hope this board hasn't messed up or damamged any of my other components. Amazon has been accomodating however in my major disappointment as to refunding me for the purchase. Kudos for that. ***************************************************** Update to my previous review above. 3/1/14 I have received my new board I ordered not a replacement from Amazon or Asus since Amazon accepted my defective board back with a full refund. My new board had me sweating bullets after the installation as the system at first booted up fine. Then after running a short time started running unstable. Periodic crashes, freezes, etc. All the components seemed to be fine at the time. As all are brand new with the exception of my Graphics cards. They are not even a yr old yet but still the only thing not brand new to my build. The more I ran the system the more unstable it seemed to get & I was ripping my hair out trying to figure out what was wrong. Started running system tests on everything I could think of & as it turned out it was bad Ram sticks I had purchased causing the problems. I had just bought brand new GSKILL ram for my new system build so had no idea the ram was or would be defective but it was. After running windows memory tests on full test sequence not just the basic test it determined the ram was defective. I removed the new ram & installed some older slower Corsair Ram I had in my previous build & my system issues stopped completely. I have returned my GSKILL ram to the manufacturer & have gotten replacement sticks to put in my system. With the good ram my system is completely stable atm running flawlessly. Here is my new system build info: MSI Computer Corp. ATX Mid Tower Chassis with USB3.0 x1 Front/USB2.0 x2 Front/3.5-Inch Drive Bay x6/5.25-Inch Drive Bay x3, Black (Raptor); PC Power and Cooling Silencer Mk II 950W High Performance 80PLUS Silver SLI CrossFire ready Power Supply compatible with Intel Sandy Bridge Core i3 i5; Dual ASUS GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card ENGTX550 TI DC TOP/DI/1GD5 run in SLI, The CPU AMD FX-8350 FX-Series Eight-Core Processor Edition, Black AM3+ FD8350FRHKBOX with a Cooler Master Seidon 120M Liquid CPU Water Cooling System with Copper Heatsink and 120mm Radiator - 1 Fan, all installed on this ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard run with G.SKILL Sniper Gaming Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin SDRAM DDR3 1866 PC3 14900 Desktop Memory F3-1866C10D-16GSR, a Samsung Electronics 840 Pro Series 2.5-Inch 256 GB SATA 6GB/s Solid State Drive MZ-7PD256BW as my main drive; & for storage a WD- Black 1.5 TB HDD; & a Segate 500GB HDD; LG DVD burner, & LG Blu-Ray Burner on a 27" HD Sansung monitor & Bose Companion II speaker system. I have not had a chance to install my new replacement G-Skill ram yet but hopefully I have a good working set of ram now. So far I am happy with the new Motherboard & its performance. At this time due to RL situations I haven't had much time to work with my new system since the MB replacement but I'm looking forward to many yrs of great performance, gaming & computing. If any issues arise with this motherboard I will update my post to inform everyone interested. This seems to be a great board when you can find & get a good woring one. As we all know with all electronics there are going to be some bad ones that get out with the good product line so there are going to be defects in the stores from time to time. That is inevitable. Its just a matter of the companies QC practices & how stringent they are with the practices they have implimented. Reviews are hard to base a judgement on too as you never know the knowledge lvl of the user / reviewer but I will say even though I'm not a professional certified technitian I have been building & working on computers for over 20 yrs & feel I am pretty knowledgable & proficient. I do build, & repair my own systems & have done so for family & friends for the same amount of time. I try to be honest & bias in my reviews & base them on actual product descriptions & quality not on my frustration with a instance or emotional dealings with a person or company unless it pertains to the product & issue resolutions if an issue of problems or defects arise.

I've used ASUS boards for a very long time now - more than ten years - and have always been pleased. They are clean, well designed, and fairly robust. I've moved boards between chassis frequently and not always been very gentle about it. No problems. I've also used several different models over the years, from the AX 88 to M3A32, an L1N64 dual processor, and a M4N98TD, with a couple of others besides. No problems. With the advent of multicore processors ASUS has stopped making dual processor boards, but the Crosshair V Formula Z with a good 8 core processor would be hard to tell from one. The board was very easy to install and set up - I've had it in two different cases now, and connections are plentiful - I have 6 SATA drives and a SATA bluray, two external USB 3.0 hard drives; and a ThrustMaster Joystick, a Nikon Slide scanner, and an HP printer on the USB 2.0 sockets. No problems here again (but also a 1.1 kilowatt PSU to run it all). And no problems with 32 GB of Kingston 1866 DDR3 RAM. Only two issues have showed up thus far, both solvable. The USB 3.0 motherboard header socket is really just a plastic sleeve that goes over the header pins. With a sticky USB 3.0 connector - which I had - the sleeve will come off when you try to take the connector out. No real damage: pull the sleeve (more like a trough with perforations for the pins) off of the connector and put it back on the board. But a better seated trough would be nice. (And a second USB 3.0 header would also be helpful. The current header won't support more than two devices, so if your case has two 3.0 ports and they're connected to the header an an add on card reader has to use the USB 2,.0 header, even if it's 3.0.) And then there's the matter of setting up RAID in the BIOS. Despite the fact that this is a UEFI BIOS, it ain't easy. RAID is set up through the legacy BIOS settings first. You have to change the hard drive settings to RAID, then reboot in legacy mode and hit F10 to enter the RAID setup. Then you must configure your RAID array, reboot, and change the boot mode back to UEFI to install Windows (8.1). And when installing Windows you'll probably need to load the RAID driver (even if your RAID array isn't your boot drive) since Microsoft seems always to think this is some rare event. It is not intuitive and you may get many "Bootable device not found" error messages. Don't lose heart. But be prepared to spend some time. I've set up numerous RAID arrays over the years but this was the hardest. Still, I like the UEFI BIOS, while the power management with a modern PSU is much better, and in all other respects the board is pretty great. I've never found custom builds entirely problem free. But for me at least the minor hassles were definitely worth the performance. Hope they will be for you too.

Ein super Mainboard mit tollen Funktionen. Viel schneller als mein Altes. Und der Preis passt auch. Ich habe nichts zu bemängeln.

Me encantó esta tarjeta madre. La calidad es excelente, la tuve que reemplazar dado que ya era momento de actualizar. La utilicé 5 años junto con un procesador FX8350 y podía correr juegos actuales sin problema.

It's simply amazing. A must for a true gamer. It is fast and has a lot... a lot of features inbuilt!

I put together a machine based off this mainboard. I shoe-horned this, an FX - AMD 9370, (with liquid cooling!) Some G-Skill Trident-x (2x8Gb @ 2400), a Samsung SSD, and an Old graphics card (GTX 250) into a 12 year old case. I showed up at a LAN, they laughed, and then I simply blew everyone away. Old~ school sleeper pwnage. Fastest boot time (Win 7 ultimate, OEM) , Fastest Load times into Game (which is what this machine was built for), and all WITHOUT touching the overclocking! I invested is some quieter case & liquid cooler fans, and they were worth every penny! This mainboard has enough connections on it for the cooling fans that it controls ALL of them. This is VERY important, because my girlfriend cannot tell that my machine is on! Even when pushing the machine with a harder gaming session (L4D2 @ 1900x1080, med quality graphics (not a new graphics card) ), for a minimum of 4 hours straight, with the cooling system set to "silent", I do not see a temperature over 45C ever. This is with the machine jammed in an unvented corner. This mainboard has allowed me to build a machine that does everything that a true video~gamer wants to do, (I have maintained a steam rating of '10' for over 10 years now), with the control to allow me to set it up the way my girlfriend wants, and the power to do whatever I feel like! The bios is amazing! A control freaks dream! An absolute must have if you are thinking about choosing one of the new AMD Fx chips! [Side note: the above mentioned cpu (Fx 9370) basically requires this mainboard, however, most of the Fx 8000 & Fx 6000 series chips were compatible with this mainboard at the time of the writing of this review. Seriously consider the extra few dollars for this board, it is WORTH the investment!]

Excelente placa base para amd, la tengo con un procesador fx 8350 y va de maravilla, bios muy intuitiva y fácil manejo, ademas en español, permite un overclock fácil y automatizado con solo hacer un click. permite dos gráficas en sli, excelentes acabados muy bonita.