ASUS Sabertooth 55i TUF P55 Motherboard Unboxing Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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966 words · ~4 min read
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so today I'll be unboxing the ASUS Sabertooth
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55i and this is yet another high-end p55
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motherboard from ASUS so this is not part of their Republic of Gamers Brand
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This is actually a new gaming brand from ASUS the Ultimate Force or tough get it
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the ultimate yeah okay so features on this board we've got a lot of the usual
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ASUS high-end features but we also have some new ones first of all is Ceramics
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heat sink design so basically
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the oh oh okay they're coating the heat sinks with ceramic which apparently
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gives them better heat disspation okay cool M fan frame you can attach a fan to
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your memory slots for better cooling okay efficient switching design oh tough
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caps and mosfets okay so there's more information on this inside but that
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means that they're tough okay we'll get more into that later temp probes Drive
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expert and memo okay their technology for making sure that even high-end
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memory will post okay as long as you press this button it'll set it it to a
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safe setting so this is a Windows 7 ready board it supports LGA
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1156 CPUs that means core i7 or core i5
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CPUs so as soon as we get this box open we see the board itself which we're
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going to get to after the accessory package so inside the accessory package
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we have an IO Shield okay there you go
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IO Shield we have one IDE cable so we
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can assume based on that that there is an IDE port on this motherboard we have
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the Q connect which are colorcoded with the tough color scheme rather than the
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traditional blue and white kind of nice touch there uh then we have what is this
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oh this is the fan bracket to attach a fan to your memory modules it doesn't
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actually include the fan itself though then we have an SLI Bridge Okay the
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crossfire bridge should be included with your video card if you need one then we
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have two USB and one eata on a little PCI back plate six SATA cables three of
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which are right angle and three of which are just straight connectors and
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then last but not least we have a user guide along with your driver CD and then
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even Laster but not leaster you have a certificate of reliability that's kind
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of cute okay so your capacitors are thermal shock tested moisture resistance
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tested salt spray tested cuz that'll be useful solder ability test solder bath
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test vibration test mechanical shock test and the mosfets all have a bunch of
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tests too wow okay so let's get this
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board open now you know maybe some people like this but
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the first thing that comes to my mind is oh man that is the ugliest color scheme
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I've seen on an ASUS board since they were using that cardboard colored PCB it
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is meant to be very military looking so this is the kind of thing you'd expect
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to find like strapped to the side of a tank I guess okay so let's go over the
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basic features of this board first of all let's do the power
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connector so we have our 24 pin power along the right Edge just where it's
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supposed to be then we've got an 8 Pin power connector up at the top now while
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I'm here I guess I can check out these heat sinks so the heat sinks have what
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looks like kind of a fine fur and that's the ceramic coating on them that
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apparently really helps with heat dissipation so for the CPU socket we
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have 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 plus two
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phases for the CPU and then a couple phases for the memory as well up at the
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top we have an overvolt RAM button
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that's kind of cool to see and then we've got the memo okay button here as
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well as an LED indicator for your RAM this heat sink down here is also
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Ceramics up okay we got four SATA ports
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on the side so four right angle SATA ports and then we have four more at the
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top so the black ones are all controlled by the p55 chipset whereas the orange
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and white ones are controlled by a j Micron chipset like many high-end boards
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we've got onboard power and reset switches although not an onboard clear
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SEO switch you have to actually set the jumper for that right here
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okay so we got two PCI Express 16x slots which run in 8X 8X mode if you are using
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two cards and then we have three additional PCI e1x and two PCI slots
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something really cool that I just noticed about this board is it has an
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awful lot of four pin fan connectors oh
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actually no not really okay it has two four pin fan connectors so two pwm fan
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connectors but it has a lot of other three pins okay so let's have a look at
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the io on the back we got two PS2 ports
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eight USB ports one optical audio out
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ESAT fire wire 1 GB Ethernet I'm
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surprised to see only 1 GB Ethernet although I mean I've never really
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understood why you need more than one on a on a consumer level board 7.1 audio
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and something I wanted to observe about
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this particular board is that I have finally found something that matches the
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