From what I see people should chose a mobo based on the features they need, historical brand reliability and price as performance between the top brands like Asus and Gigabyte are virtually identical.

25 years ago Asus sold only OEM mobos and they were top quality. Since deciding to go to the retail consumer market where profits are much higher, Asus has rushed a lot of products to market that could be accurately described as half-baked. While Asus makes sure that they get good hardware website reviews... owner's experiences do not always match the reviewer site's results, as noted countless times.

In my experience of several decades of building performance PCs, Asus mobos tend to be sensitive to the RAM used even if it's on the QVL list. This can make for many a headache for end users. I personally would like to see Asus invest more effort in designing their mobos and BIOS so that they work reliably without issues because it's a royal PITA to troubleshoot Asus mobo issues for them when they should have corrected these issues prior to shipment of the mobos.

It's also worth noting at least in the U.S., Asus's Tech Support (sic), is a fantasy at best from my firsthand experience. Many people get so frustrated with the lack of Asus customer support that they buy a different brand of mobo and just take the financial loss on the Asus mobo as it's more headaches than it's worth dealing with Asus customer service (sic), in the U.S. I can state that IME most of the mobo makers customer/tech support in the U.S. is woeful to say the least but Asus's is infuriating at best. All the mobo makers need to improve in this area.

Another review that shows how pathetic the Bulldozer core is. Bulldozer to me is like cutting onions or throwing salt on a wound. These reviews are boring to read. Maybe I am waiting for some features like Abit did in their day. These days you see one motherboard, you see them all. Each motherboard is pretty much have the same features. With out Abit, one motherboard is just as boring as the next. It will be nice to read a review that is more exciting.

Bulldozer based Opteron 6200 and 4200 have just been released and the major industry players are supporting these new CPUs based on performance, power efficiency and scalability so maybe all BD based CPUs aren't as bad as the haters claim.

http://www.fudzilla.com/h...on-gets-support-from-tyan

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=23267

There is no way I am going to spend even a red cent as worthless as it is on a BD cpu that can't hardly carry it's weight in most tasks that aren't threaded for more than 4 cores. 5 years well here is to 5 miserable years as an amd user and very displeased. Got 4 amd rigs and a few greedtels as well.

I think this short statement is incorrect:

> Asus Sabertooth 990FX support 3 Gbps

See:
http://usa.asus.com/Mothe...OTH_990FX/#specifications

AMD SB950 controller :
6 x SATA 6Gb/s port(s), brown
Support Raid 0, 1, 5, 10


MRFS

Hi,

I have an Asus Sabertooth with FX-8150 installed and running with BIOS version 0705, out of box. I have versions of BIOS 0810 and 09xx on a flash pen FAT32, but it will be my 1st flash BIOS, and i´m a little scared to do the upgrade. With the 0705 version, everything is running nicely...By the way, great great mobo. And beautifull, also)

Cheers,
Luis.