- Joined
- May 3, 2013
- Location
- Ontario, Canada
I moved from a Gigabyte GA990fxa-ud3 to a Sabertooth 990fx Gen 3 to avoid throttling problems with the gigabyte board. Other than throttling at load, the Gigabyte was a good board but there was no end in sight to the problem so I decided to solve the problem myself.
The Gen 3 has turned out to be nothing better than a complete nightmare. The first board I returned as defective only to get a second board with the same issues. The board will lock completely and not POST; it would behave almost as if there was no power supply attached to it. This occurred about six times on each board and each time I would need to completely strip down the board and remove all accessories including the CMOS battery to get it to POST again. Sometimes it would be a week between incidents other times it would be an hour. Letting the PC enter sleep mode was a surefire way of inducing this "behaviour."
After finally having enough I decided to forgo another GEN 3 and went with a standard R2.0. No problems at all. This board has been rock solid and exactly what i expected to get for my hard earned money. So I don't get PCI-E 3.0? I doubt my SLI setup would saturate the X16 2.0 lanes anyway so it's rather moot.
I'm not sure what was going on with the GEN 3 and if it only happened with 1 board I would chalk it to a crap happens moment but the exact same issue with 2 boards? That seems like too much of a coincidence especially given how they plug these boards as TUF with military standard components. I'm sure there are a bunch of people with GEN3 boards that are happy but I know I'm not the only one who had problems with the GEN3; the computer store had a number of returns aside from mine.
A word of caution to those considering purchasing the GEN3 version of the Sabertooth 990FX. Unless you absolutely need PCI-E 3.0, stick with the standard R2.0. The board kicks booty.
/rant off
The Gen 3 has turned out to be nothing better than a complete nightmare. The first board I returned as defective only to get a second board with the same issues. The board will lock completely and not POST; it would behave almost as if there was no power supply attached to it. This occurred about six times on each board and each time I would need to completely strip down the board and remove all accessories including the CMOS battery to get it to POST again. Sometimes it would be a week between incidents other times it would be an hour. Letting the PC enter sleep mode was a surefire way of inducing this "behaviour."
After finally having enough I decided to forgo another GEN 3 and went with a standard R2.0. No problems at all. This board has been rock solid and exactly what i expected to get for my hard earned money. So I don't get PCI-E 3.0? I doubt my SLI setup would saturate the X16 2.0 lanes anyway so it's rather moot.
I'm not sure what was going on with the GEN 3 and if it only happened with 1 board I would chalk it to a crap happens moment but the exact same issue with 2 boards? That seems like too much of a coincidence especially given how they plug these boards as TUF with military standard components. I'm sure there are a bunch of people with GEN3 boards that are happy but I know I'm not the only one who had problems with the GEN3; the computer store had a number of returns aside from mine.
A word of caution to those considering purchasing the GEN3 version of the Sabertooth 990FX. Unless you absolutely need PCI-E 3.0, stick with the standard R2.0. The board kicks booty.
/rant off