ASUS Sabertooth X58 Motherboard Performance Review Parth VII |

Final Thoughts and Conclusion

What more is there to say about the ASUS Sabertooth X58 motherboard? Honestly, not a whole lot. We could talk about the looks of the ASUS Sabertooth X58. Just because I like them, you may not. The aesthetics of the ASUS Sabertooth X58 motherboard have a like 'em or hate 'em feel to them; I may be wrong, though. Looks are all going to be about personal preference and that is for you to decide. What I can tell you is that this sub-$200 motherboard is a beast!

First we will look at the positive aspects of the ASUS Sabertooth X58 motherboard. Performance, Performance, Performance! The ASUS Sabertooth X58 motherboard has no shortage of performance. In all of our benchmarks today the ASUS Sabertooth X58 was running neck and neck and usually leading the much pricier MSI Big Bang XPower. Overclocking ability was unreal for $195.00! I was able to boot the system at over 4.3GHz and with some more work and some liquid cooling we probably could have gotten rock solid stability at 4.3GHz and higher.

The only negative aspect to the ASUS Sabertooth X58 that I see is the network performance. Even that isn't a deal breaker. How often do you truly send a huge amount of sustained data across your network? If you do frequently, you probably aren't going to be using onboard network cards, anyway. The shortage of network throughput isn't likely to be something you will ever notice during online gaming or any of the day to day network tasks like streaming movies from the internet or across your network. If you aren't sure what I am referring to, you must have accidentally looked past the Network Throughput page. If so, you can find it here. A quick recap and we can point out that nine out of the ten boards that we have tested have a throughput of ~940-945Mbits/s. The ASUS Sabertooth was only able to achieve 752.336Mbits/s and when we pinged ASUS about this variance from all of the other boards this was their response:

"It is due to the use of a PCI based network controller as opposed to a PCI-E based network controller. Your number is approximate to what we have from internal testing. Due to the considerably higher quality components as well validation and other specific elements on the SABERTOOTHX58 this compromise was put into effect by the product manager. As most users realistically do not put heavy throughput loads on their network it was felt while not perfect it was practical implementation. In real world reality the performance offered of approximate 85 to 90MB is sufficient for even high performance data transfers including backups and HD streams." - ASUS PR

I think ASUS put their money where their mouth is with the ASUS Sabertooth X58. The claim from ASUS with regards to the Sabertooth X58 is of reliability. To back this claim up they have given the TUF series, including the ASUS Sabertooth X58 motherboard, a five year warranty. This five year warranty is 66% longer than the traditional three years of most of their motherboards.

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ASUS Sabertooth X58 Motherboard Performance Review Parth VI |

Overclocking the ASUS Sabertooth X58 MotherboardOverclocking greatly varies due to what hardware is being used and who is doing the overclocking. Always remember that no two pieces of hardware will perform the same, so our results will differ from what you might be able to get.

I started out increasing the bus speed and leaving everything on auto which was working great. I was running into some heat issues this way, though. I changed up my tactics and manually set the processor voltage at 1.2 Volts and continued to increase the bus speed. I was able to reach a rock solid 4GHz+ oc without any additional processor voltage from the ASUS Sabertooth X58.

Once we started experiencing instability just past the 4.045GHz mark with no voltage, we started to increase the voltage. Though as good as the Titan Fenrir is, it is still only an air cooler. At 1.2625 Volts we started pushing the thermal limits of our Intel Core I7 950 with temperatures as high as 95 degrees Celsius while running Prime95 to check our stability. We were able to hit a solid 4.254GHz overclock on air! This is a great overclock on air cooling with a board that is priced as budget friendly as the $199.99 ASUS Sabertooth X58 motherboard is!

 

Once we had achieved a stable overclock we wanted to see what kind of performance increase we would see. Firing up Futuremark's 3DMark Vantage we were able to see an overall improvement of only 1171 3DMarks. This tells me that we are becoming GPU limited on our test system. Impressively though, we gained nearly 5000 3DMarks on the CPU score with our final overclock.

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ASUS Sabertooth X58 Motherboard Performance Review Parth V |

Network Throughput & System Power Consumption

The Gigabit PCIe Ethernet controllers vary on each board, so it will be interesting to see what the performance is on all the boards. Each of the boards uses a different Gigabit Controller. Let's take a look at what controller is on each of the boards.

·         ASUS Sabertooth X58 - Realtek RTL8110SC

·         MSI Big Bang XPower - Realtek 8111DL

·         ASRock 890GX Extreme4 - Realtek RTL8111C

·         ASRock 890GX Extreme4 - Realtek RTL8111E

·         ASRock 890FX Deluxe4 - Realtek RTL8111E

·         GIGABYTE 890FXA-UD5 - Realtek 8111D chip

·         GIGABYTE 880GMA-UD2H - Realtek 8111D chip

·         MSI 890FXA-GD70 - Realtek 8111DL

·         ASUS Crosshair IV Formula - Marvell 8059 Gigabit LAN controller

·         ASRock 890GX Extreme3 - Realtek RTL8111E

·         Biostar TA890GXB HD - Realtek RTL8111E

To test the Gigabit PCIe Ethernet controllers we used the NTttcp tool to test Ethernet Throughput and the CPU utilization of the various Ethernet controllers used on the AMD Motherboards. To do this properly we set up one machine as the server; in this test an Intel Core I7 930 system with an EVGA X58 Tri-SLI motherboard acted as our Gigabit LAN server.

On the server side, we used the following Command Line for Gigabit PCIe Ethernet Testing:

Ntttcpr -m 4,0,<Client IP> -a 4 -l 256000 -n 30000

On the client side (the motherboard being tested), we used the following Command Line:

Ntttcps -m 4,0,<Server IP> -a 4 -l 256000 -n 30000

At the conclusion of each test we recorded the throughput and CPU utilization figures from the client screen as that is the system being tested.

Benchmark Results: This is the first time in ten motherboards that there was a dramatic difference in network performance. Nine of the ten boards that we have tested have had a network throughput of 942-945+Mbits/s. The ASUS Sabertooth X58 was only 752.336 Mbits/s. After a bit of trouble shooting to make sure my server wasn't faltering I got in touch with ASUS and found out my results were spot on. This is what they had to say:

"It is due to the use of a PCI based network controller as opposed to a PCI-E based network controller. Your number is approximate to what we have from internal testing. Due to the considerably higher quality components as well validation and other specific elements on the SABERTOOTH X58 this compromise was put into effect by the product manager. As most users realistically do not put heavy throughput loads on their network it was felt while not perfect it was practical implementation. In real world reality the performance offered of approximate 85 to 90MB is sufficient for even high performance data transfers including backups and HD streams."

Since power consumption is a big deal these days, we ran some simple power consumption tests on our test beds. The systems ran with the power supplies, case fans, video cards and hard drives. To measure idle usage, we ran the system at idle for one hour on the desktop with no screen saver and took the measurement. For load measurements, Prime95's in-place large FFT's was run on all cores to make sure each and every processor was at 100% load for maximum power consumption and heat. We also ran Furmark 1.8 at 1280x1024 to put a full load on the graphics card. All systems were tested using identical hardware.

Power consumption of the ASUS Sabertooth X58 motherboard was a little higher than I would have liked to have seen. At idle it was pulling 141 watts at the wall which is nearly 22% higher than the MSI Big Bang XPower. Once we start putting a load on the CPU alone the difference drops to 14.5%, firing up the CPU as well as the GPU there is only a 9.8% difference.

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ASUS Sabertooth X58 Motherboard Performance Review Parth IV |

Test ASUS Sabertooth X58 Motherboard

I. Test System 
 All testing was done on a fresh install of Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit with all the latest updates installed. All benchmarks were completed on the desktop with no other software programs running. The Corsair DOMINATOR memory modules were run in triple-channel mode at 1600MHz with 8-8-8-24 timings. The ATI Radeon HD 5870 graphics cards were run with 10.5 CATALYST suite drivers. The I7 950 processor was running at the default clock of 3.06 with turbo enabled.

Intel Test Rig
Processor	Intel Core I7 950	Live Pricing
Motherboard	ASUS Sabertooth X58	Live Pricing
Memory	6gb Corsair Dominator 1600MHz	Live Pricing
Hard Drive	Western Digital Black 640gb	Live Pricing
Video Card	HIS Radeon HD 5870	Live Pricing
CPU cooler	Titan Fenrir	Live Pricing
Chassis	None - Open Bench
Power Supply	Corsair TX750	Live Pricing

II. 3d Mark Ventage Test

3DMark Vantage is the new industry standard PC gaming performance benchmark from Futuremark, newly designed for Windows Vista and DirectX10. It includes two new graphics tests, two new CPU tests, several new feature tests, and support for the latest hardware. 3DMark Vantage is based on a completely new rendering engine, developed specifically to take full advantage of DirectX10, the new graphics API from Microsoft.

Benchmark Results: The ASUS Sabertooth was able to outperform the MSI Big Bang XPower by nearly 400 points in the overall score and nearly 500 points in the GPU scores!

III. USB 3.0 Performance Testing

HD Tach is a low level hardware benchmark for random access read/write storage devices such as hard drives, removable drives (ZIP/JAZZ), flash devices, and RAID arrays. HD Tach uses custom device drivers and other low level Windows interfaces to bypass as many layers of software as possible and get as close to the physical performance of the device possible.

Benchmark Results: The ASUS Sabertooth X58 has average read speeds that are on par with the other top performing boards that we have seen to date. The average write speeds of the ASUS Sabertooth was able to exceed the performance of any of the other boards that I have tested to date by nearly 1.3%!

Testing of the USB3 was done using The hard drive used was a Western Digital 640Gb Black Edition Hard drive.

Benchmark Results: HD Tune shows us very similar results to HD Tach. The ASUS Sabertooth X58 has average read and write rates that are at the top of the charts while the burst speeds of the ASUS Sabertooth X58 were able to exceed what we have seen to date.

IV. SATA6 Performance Test

HD Tach is a low level hardware benchmark for random access read/write storage devices such as hard drives, removable drives (ZIP/JAZZ), flash devices, and RAID arrays. HD Tach uses custom device drivers and other low level Windows interfaces to bypass as many layers of software as possible and get as close to the physical performance of the device possible.

Benchmark Results: It seems that an average read rate of 109.1MB/s is the limit of the Western Digital 1TB Black Edition as six of our seven boards including the ASUS Sabertooth X58 have been able to hit that. As far as the average write speeds the ASUS Sabertooth X58 motherboard fell just behind the fastest boards, though it was by only .7MB/s or .9%

HD Tune Pro 4.01 is an extended version of HD Tune which includes many new features such as write benchmark, secure erasing, AAM setting, folder usage view, disk monitor, command line parameters and file benchmark.Testing of the USB3 was done using the hard drive used was a Western Digital 640Gb Black Edition Hard drive.

Benchmark Results: The HD Tune results show that all of the boards are very comparable to each other. The burst rates are the only things that seem to change dramatically. The ASUS Sabertooth X58 does have the highest burst speeds in read and write of any of the motherboards that we have tested.

V. Test Game Alien Vs Predator Bechmark V1.03

Aliens vs. Predator is an entirely new title for PC and high-definition consoles from acclaimed British developer Rebellion, the team behind the 1999 original PC gaming classic. Bringing the most intense war between two of science-fiction’s most popular characters FPS fans, AvP delivers three outstanding single player campaigns and provides untold hours of unique 3-way multiplayer gaming. Experience distinctly new and thrilling first person gameplay as you survive, hunt and prey in the deadly jungles and swamps surrounding the damned colony of Freya’s Prospect.

We cranked up all the image quality settings in the benchmark to the highest level possible, so we were running 4x AA and 16x AF with SSAO enabled at both 1920x1200 and 1280x1024 on all the video cards.

Benchmark Results: The ASUS Sabertooth X58 falls right in line with all of the boards we have tested. Unfortunately, Aliens Vs. Predator doesn't show us much of a performance difference but the ASUS Sabertooth X58 is performing at the top of the chart!

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ASUS Sabertooth X58 Motherboard Performance Review Parth III |

A Closer Look at the ASUS Sabertooth X58 Motherboard

The ASUS Sabertooth X58 motherboard has an unusual set of colors, at least as motherboards go. I do like it though; it's unique and will go great in any military themed build.

Like many of the motherboards that we have looked at recently the memory slots feature a latch on only one side. You need to put one corner in first and then depress the side with the latches. Other features here include the MemOK!, 20+4 power plug and the power fan header. If you aren't familiar with the MemOK! feature, it's a nifty little feature. MemOK! aids in determining the failsafe settings of the memory and should improve system boot success.

Sliding down the ASUS Sabertooth X58 Motherboard we first run into a pair of 3pin fan headers, followed closely by six SATA2 ports and a pair of white SATA3 ports. The pin out on the corner of the ASUS Sabertooth X58 is all of the front panel connectors such as power and reset, hard drive activity light and, of course, the power LED.

Rounding the first corner of the ASUS Sabertooth X58 we run into three USB2 headers followed by a black firewire header and a white serial port connector. The Intel ICH10R chipset is kept cool by the ASUS "Ultimate COOL! thermal solution. The "Ultimate COOL! thermal solution consists of CeraM!X which is an innovative ceramic coating that effectively conducts heat away from the system. In fact, all of the heat sinks on the ASUS Sabertooth X58 take advantage of the ceramic coating.

Moving further along this side of the ASUS Sabertooth X58 there isn't a whole lot more exciting, though this is the first glimpse of the three PCIe x16 slots. The VIA chip next to the CeraM!X heatsink is a VIA 6308P which controls the Firewire on the ASUS Sabertooth X58.

Moving around to the back edge of the ASUS Sabertooth X58 we can see a few of the individual chips that make it the quality board that it is. Just under the LegitReviews.com logo is the RealTek ALC892 audio codec. To the left of the logo is the Super I/O chip, followed by the RealTek 8110SC which is the controller for the gigabit Ethernet. The final chip is the NEC D720200F1. This is the controller chip for the USB3.0.

Just in case you are stumbling onto this page, the ASUS Sabertooth X58 is a Socket 1366 motherboard as you can see above. The socket itself is rather plain and unexciting. What's surrounding it, however, is anything but. As stated above all of the heat sinks are coated in CeraM!x ceramic coating to keep the MOSFET's nice and cool without the need for additional fans. Also surrounding the socket are the alloy chokes that deliver the 8-phase CPU power. It is worth noting again that the Alloy chokes, Caps, and MOSFET's are considered TUF Components. This means that they have all been certified by military standards.

The I/O panel is pretty much the run of the mill I/O panel. There are six USB2 ports, two USB3 ports, firewire, two e-SATA ports, gigabit Ethernet, a single PS/2 port for a keyboard or mouse and, last but not least, eight channel audio.

Now that we have covered the retail packaging and taken a closer look at the ASUS Sabertooth X58 motherboard, let's throw in our test components and stick our nose into the BIOS.

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ASUS Sabertooth X58 Motherboard Performance Review Parth II |

ASUS Sabertooth X58 Motherboard Retail Packaging and Bundle
The retail packaging is stylish and to the point. You know the basics of what you are going to get just by looking at the front of the packaging.

The front of the retail packaging opens up for those looking for more information. On the retail packaging underneath the flap several of the key features of the ASUS Sabertooth X58 are mentioned: True USB 3.0 Support, MemOK!, ASUS Q-Design and other features are detailed here.

 

The flap on the retail packaging has even more of the details of the ASUS Sabertooth X58 including CeraM!X Heatsink Coating Tech, E.S.P., TUF Components and True SATA 6Gb/s RAID Support.

The back of the retail packaging for the ASUS Sabertooth X58 gives you a truncated version of the specifications we covered on the first page.

Once we opened up the retail packaging for the ASUS Sabertooth X58 motherboard we found the bundle that goes along with the ASUS Sabertooth X58 in a bit of a mess. Though with a closer look we see the ASUS Sabertooth X58 motherboard is well protected from the bundle that has perhaps a bit too much freedom to roam.

Lifting off the cardboard that protects the ASUS Sabertooth X58 from the shifting bundle we get our first look at the ASUS Sabertooth X58, and honest first impressions. I dig the look!

The bundle above is everything you get with the ASUS Sabertooth X58: four SATA cables, Q-connects, I/O Shield, SLI bridge, manuals and, of course, the driver disk.

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