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#23 ·
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Ah, I see. Noctua nhd15 should still be fine on there. I'm running the HyperX Predators. Also, very high with the HS
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Any chance i can see a picture of how yours fits with everything?
 
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Ah, I see. Noctua nhd15 should still be fine on there. I'm running the HyperX Predators. Also, very high with the HS
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Any chance i can see a picture of how yours fits with everything?
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I can post more, but you can see the ram on the right side with the clearance. These memory modules have a height of 55mm.
 
#25 ·
Hello, I'm about to purchase this board, but was looking and this board doesn't have the debug led with numbers like the other asus boards does it? I love the dust covers though that this board comes with very good idea I think.
 
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Hello, I'm about to purchase this board, but was looking and this board doesn't have the debug led with numbers like the other asus boards does it? I love the dust covers though that this board comes with very good idea I think.
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Instead there is dedicated USB port that you connect your smartphone to. This displays what's happening during system boot. Also, you can monitor temps and clear cmos etc.

Works flawlessly, and charges your phone. Also, there are LED's next to each major component, m.2, ram, cpu etc. These will light in sequence, and alert the user if there's an issue.
 
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Instead there is dedicated USB port that you connect your smartphone to. This displays what's happening during system boot. Also, you can monitor temps and clear cmos etc.

Works flawlessly, and charges your phone. Also, there are LED's next to each major component, m.2, ram, cpu etc. These will light in sequence, and alert the user if there's an issue.
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Well how the heck are you supposed to know what error code you are getting if you don't own an expensive android smartphone? It shouldn't be a requirement to have a $300 phone just to be able to see the post errors on a $300 motherboard....-___-

Wanting to get one of these to go along with a 5960X and some corsair dominator platinum 2666mhz DDR4 but i was concerned about some reports of bad overclocking from reviews and now this too. Sucks that there's virtually zero pictures of the board in actual systems either, was wondering what it would look like in my caselabs SMA8 with my SLI EK waterblocks for GPU and Supremacy EVO CPU waterblock etc...
 
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Instead there is dedicated USB port that you connect your smartphone to. This displays what's happening during system boot. Also, you can monitor temps and clear cmos etc.

Works flawlessly, and charges your phone. Also, there are LED's next to each major component, m.2, ram, cpu etc. These will light in sequence, and alert the user if there's an issue.
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Well how the heck are you supposed to know what error code you are getting if you don't own an expensive android smartphone? It shouldn't be a requirement to have a $300 phone just to be able to see the post errors on a $300 motherboard....-___-

Wanting to get one of these to go along with a 5960X and some corsair dominator platinum 2666mhz DDR4 but i was concerned about some reports of bad overclocking from reviews and now this too. Sucks that there's virtually zero pictures of the board in actual systems either, was wondering what it would look like in my caselabs SMA8 with my SLI EK waterblocks for GPU and Supremacy EVO CPU waterblock etc...
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The motherboard has various LEDS throughout the motherboard that tell you exactly what the error is. Check out the user manual available on ASUS's website. Having a smartphone is not a requirement, but a mere perk for potential customers that do have one. OC from my personal experience is on point.

As for lack of pictures... I've seen plenty of builds online using this motherboard, but this is a relatively new board so these things take time.
 
#30 ·
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The motherboard has various LEDS throughout the motherboard that tell you exactly what the error is. Check out the user manual available on ASUS's website. Having a smartphone is not a requirement, but a mere perk for potential customers that do have one. OC from my personal experience is on point.

As for lack of pictures... I've seen plenty of builds online using this motherboard, but this is a relatively new board so these things take time.
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Where have you seen the pictures? I found ZERO on google images, one on linustechtips that i had to specifically ask a guy to upload for me, and a couple pics of one guys rig here that's right above our posts.

You have one of these boards? How well did it overclock for you? I'm trying to decide between this and a Rampage V, but after spending the $1,000 on a 5960X i could only afford a used Rampage V though, so i'm really stuck between which to get.

It's good to know that it'll show post error codes though, had me worried.
 
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#31 ·
@ DarkIdeals...

Here's my recent build in a Fractal Design R5 Case...and yeah I know the H100 Corsair heatsink is upside down...I'll flip it over one of these days...just a "d'oh" moment after building late into the night last month
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Anyway...

Full system is

Fractal Design R5 Case
SeaSonic Gold 1050 Watt PSU
Asus Sabertooth X99

1 x 512 gb Samsung 850 EVO as OS/Applications drive

2 x WD Red 4tb in RAID 1 for photo and data storage

1 x 512 gb Samsung 850 Evo SSD as scratch disk for photoshop, lightroom and all things Adobe and for Vegas pro 13 video editing

1 x 512 gb Samsung 850 EVO as OS/Applications drive

32 gigs Corsair Vengeance DDR 4 2400 @ mild 2666

eVGA 980 Hybrid watercooled GPU

Intel i7-5820K CPU @ Mild 3.8 cooled with Corsair H105 kit

Don't know squat about Ocing other than a few simple tweaks, but have lurked here for a long time (great community) and just saw this thread about pics..

So there's one more pic for ya!
 
#32 ·
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@ DarkIdeals...

Here's my recent build in a Fractal Design R5 Case...and yeah I know the H100 Corsair heatsink is upside down...I'll flip it over one of these days...just a "d'oh" moment after building late into the night last month
smile.gif


Anyway...

Full system is

Fractal Design R5 Case
SeaSonic Gold 1050 Watt PSU
Asus Sabertooth X99

1 x 512 gb Samsung 850 EVO as OS/Applications drive

2 x WD Red 4tb in RAID 1 for photo and data storage

1 x 512 gb Samsung 850 Evo SSD as scratch disk for photoshop, lightroom and all things Adobe and for Vegas pro 13 video editing

1 x 512 gb Samsung 850 EVO as OS/Applications drive

32 gigs Corsair Vengeance DDR 4 2400 @ mild 2666

eVGA 980 Hybrid watercooled GPU

Intel i7-5820K CPU @ Mild 3.8 cooled with Corsair H105 kit

Don't know squat about Ocing other than a few simple tweaks, but have lurked here for a long time (great community) and just saw this thread about pics..

So there's one more pic for ya!
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Thanks alot
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I ended up getting a Rampage V Extreme though, i wanted to OC my 5960X so i bought a used one that hits 4.5ghz @ 1.3v which was cheaper so i could afford a new Rampage V Extreme; just waiting for it to arrive (damn B&H lying about "expedited" shipping, turns out it's just standard UPS Ground 5 day
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I do like the look of the Sabertooth though, especially the little VRM cooling fan, i also love the dust covers for the PCI/RAM etc..

I also got a set of 16GB Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR4 2666mhz C15 RAM that i'll be OCing to 2800/3000 C15 by raising from 1.2v to 1.35v. I should most likely be able to pump the 5960X from 4.5Ghz @ 1.3v core (1.9v input voltage, 100 BCLK, 4Ghz Uncore/cache) up to 4.6Ghz if i raise it to around 1.35v core, 1.95v input and maybe activate XMP for a 125 BCLK which sometimes makes haswell-e OCing easier to do when reaching for high numbers.

Honestly overclocking really isn't that hard if you know the basics. with your 5820K and H105 cooler you could definitely get a ~4.2-4.4ghz overclock out of it pretty easily i imagine as 6 cores are easier to OC than the 8 core 5960X which on average only hits 4.4ghz even with full on water cooling like my setup.

I would try raising your regular core voltage up to 1.3v, perhaps 1.32v, then raise your input voltage to between 1.85 and 1.9v, keep the BCLK at 100 if you can help it, then raise the uncore/cache (whatever the Sabertooth bios calls it) to around 200-300mhz less than your multiplier (so if you're going for 4.3Ghz, you'd have a 43x multiplier so you'd want to leave uncore/cache at around 3.9/4.0Ghz or so)

I think you'd do just fine with a 4.3ghz overclock with those settings of 43x multiplier, 1.3v, 1.85v input voltage, 100 BCLK, and 3.9ghz uncore/cache. The 5820K can actually hit around 4.6-4.7ghz if you get a good chip without too much trouble.
 
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Awesome! Many thanks for the info!
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Yeah no problem. I'll let you know how my overclocking works on the 5960X, might give you some more useful info on failure points of overclocks etc.. I'm gonna buy some coollaboratory liquid ultra for the 5960X instead of normal TIM, which should lower the temps a bit over regular paste; might give me an advantage in overclockability.
 
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#36 ·
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New BIOS suporting 16GB DDR4 memory modules!!!
http://www.asus.com/es/supportonly/SABERTOOTH%20X99/HelpDesk_Download/
(spain page, sorry)
Awesome board with 5820K.
Any have a overclocked 5820K on this board?
Can you post your settings in the board, CPU frecuency and voltage etc?
My 5820K is overclocked at 4Ghz with 1.14V, tested on OCCT
Is good?
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Wonder why there is no BIOS update on US site?

Think I'll wait unless others here have tried it and verified if there are more than just the RAM update included (ir new BIOS settings,. tweaks, stability improvements etc)

Anyone else try this?

Thanks
 
#37 ·
well, its been up and running, for the rest of you gents who are thinking about purchasing this board, its absolutely amazing... so far flawless, from the time I power up until i login to windows is under 10 seconds.



 
#38 ·
Question about newest BIOS 1802...

After flashing to this BIOS (From US site) I needed to go back into BIOS and reconfigure a few tweaks like XMP, adjust my DDR speeds and CPU. Rechecked to make sure it was booting in ACHI mode, set BIOS to boot into advanced mode etc etc...

After rebooting I get a flashing cursor (after splash screen) and then it goes right back into BIOS...I can reproduce this aver and over. Only way to get to windows was to go to boot menu and to a bot override by clicking on my SSD Boot drive...

I even went back to BIOS 1701 but the problem remains...anyone have any ideas on how to fix this as it's rather annoying?

FYI -- I turned off fast boot features as well to see if it would help but no avail....any ideas?
 
#39 ·
My 5960X was fried so I'm off the Sabertooth bandwagon (ASUS). Had a CPU high voltage warning when booting up and now dead. The night before computer ran fine so the OC socket I feel is buggy.

I went with a MSI Krait Edition board now so I'll see how this works out. Other people are having issues too with this happening.
 
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My 5960X was fried so I'm off the Sabertooth bandwagon (ASUS). Had a CPU high voltage warning when booting up and now dead. The night before computer ran fine so the OC socket I feel is buggy.

I went with a MSI Krait Edition board now so I'll see how this works out. Other people are having issues too with this happening.
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What bios version were you on?
 
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