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.

So far, the board has been great for everything except for overclocking. Not that you can't overclock, because you can, but you need to have more than a basic understanding of overclocking to do it on this board (it doesn't have the usual ASUS Auto OC that all prior ASUS boards have had/have). It does however have some AUTO sections to help with overclocking needs and the board hasn't melted under some of the conditions I've placed on it, so that's a plus. The UEFI is weird to work with, but you get used to it. There's plenty of "guides" out there on the net to help someone with overclocking this board though, so don't let the complexity of options blow you away. This board has a lot of everything on it like USB ports 3.0, 2.0, and all USB's on this board are backwards compatible which is a plus. There's a couple of e-SATA ports on the board. It also has the newer USB Flashback BIOS button which has a designated USB port to use for quick BIOS updates from a thumb drive (very nifty to use). Inside the board is aesthetically pleasing on the eyes and quite easy to color match if you wanted to, to your other components. There are a total of 8 SATA ports on the board. Max RAM is 32GB @ 1866. I currently use 32GB @ 1600 with 9-9-9-27 (had to set it manually for this) and everything is fine (Corsair Vengeance RAM used). The RAM slots are not like typical ones, so don't freak out if you get this board. The slots only have one set of click-ins on one side and the other side is just a hook post for the other side of the stick. I thought I had a defunct board when I saw that, like as if the other posts got broken off. But, nope, it's designed that way and it does work like that without issue. The only real downside to this board, and it's really just a design flaw, is that you need to hook up your SATA's before you put a video card on this board. Most GFX are quite long in length and as an example, I use a XFX R9 290X and it literally covers the entire mobo from the left to right. This created a slight issue as the card is so long that it literally "covers" my SATA ports (4 of them, what would be your "first four" for HD/Optical). So just be aware of that so that you at least hook your lines to the mobo first before placement of your massive GFX. I use a red theme, and the mobo colors don't detract from the rest of my setup. An image below will show the GFX blockage of the SATA ports.

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.

Great board, stable, incredibly simple to set up. I replaced a dead board and transferred all of the existing components to this one, including CPU and memory. What a difference! The system became more stable, and everything is even faster. I used to have issues with configuring the board to start up and be stable, this one is bullet proof. No issues. Highly recommended

Ｍ社のマザボでRAIDカードがどうしても動かなかったので買い換えました。 かなり無茶な使い方ってのは承知。CPUもBIOS設定で消費電力押さえてVRM空冷しつつなんとか使えていましたが、RAIDカードはどう設定してもエラーとなり動作せず。このあたりのサーバで使うようなPCIeカードはASUS／Gigabyteあたりが無難ですね。 amd fx-9370 SAPPHIRE R7 260X Adaptec ASR-71605

I have always had Asus AMD motherboard, processors and graphic cards. This time around wasn't any different. It has military grade cooling substances high quality components. I am not a gamer but I prefer powerful components for my personaly built system and this motherboard meets my needs amply. Thanks Follow the web link for further Information ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 - AMD AM3+ 990FX SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 4*DDR3 6*USB3.0 12*USB2.0 GBE LAN

For higher amd processors like the fx 9590 you will face problems till updating bios and change some bios setting. if any one facing same problems contact me by the reply option