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Asus Sabertooth Z87 LGA 1150 Motherboard

This motherboard is great.
Fairly affordable, very sleek, and tons of features!

Thanks to the new chipset, there are a lot more native SATA ports that are ALL 6 gb/s!
The motherboard is great for SLI and Crossfire. Its UEFI is great, user friendly, and easy to explore around.

Dust caps are included, and a huge 5 year warranty! This thing is truly TUF.
Again, nice job Asus. Wonderful, excellent motherboard, outstanding support, and I cant wait what what else I can do with it.

Review about Asus Sabertooth Z87 LGA 1150 Motherboard

This motherboard works as good as it looks. It looks and feel military grade. It has no flex due to the steel plate on the bottom. It fits perfectly in the case and it is very well laid out. It has more accessories that a Vegas show girl. But the best part is the ease of setup and the thought that went into this board. My favorite feature (which I am happy to say I didnt not have to use) is the button on the board that when pressed, will try and determine the correct DDR3 setting for thee RAM you installed if it fails POST boot. The GUI BIOS are a great new feature and no doubt where the industry will be heading. There are no BIOS updates yet, but they give you 3 ways to flash them including booting from the bios and simply sticking in a flash drive with the file on it. No more booting to a floppy, CD or thumb drive!

This was by far the easiest and most trouble free PC build I have ever done and I have done many. I am into this new build 3 days now and could not be happier. My fastest reboot time so far, from clicking on restart to a sign on screen was about 20 seconds. Yes I have a i7 4th Gen, and SSD drive and 32 GB of RAM, but some boards like my Gigabyte GA-X58 with similar config took forever to POST. Some MB makers are better than others are eliminating unnecessary boot up checks, like seeking every USB device as Gigabyte does. Asus nailed this and POST is the fastest I have ever seen at just a few seconds. It actually boots faster than some virtual machines on industrial grade servers we have at work where POST isnt an issue.

I could not be more pleased at this point except for one thing. I really didnt need or want to build a new system, but my wife spilled water into the top of my old one. Smoke and a lot mumbling followed. But everything was backed up, so all is well . . .

7/7/2013 Update:
A few days into using this build I noticed some instability with devices plugged into the USB3 ports. .

Features:

• Tuf Engine Power Design
• Ultimate Cool Thermal Solution
• We Got Your Back Shape Force