ASUS Sabertooth Z97 Mark 2 Review
Published by Hiwa Pouri on 18.02.15Page:
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The Sabertooth Z97 Mark 2 comes in the typical military look, which follows the style of other TUF boards from ASUS. Colours like olive-green, black and grey are present on this board, achieving a look that automatically suggests that this is a high quality and "tough" product. Like its predecessors, this model also comes with cooling blocks made from ceramic. Altogether ASUS has succeeded in creating a homogenous look, but one really needs to like the color scheme and we believe that it will not be to everyones taste.
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ASUS has intergrated a digital power design in their latest TUF-series motherboard, where the CPU gets eight phases and the memory gets two phases. Looking at the capacitors you'll find high quality units that offer 10'000 hours operating time, which is excellent. On top of that, there are new chokes on the board, which come with increased surface area in order to optimize heat dissipation.
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The ASUS Sabertooth Z97 Mark 2 comes with four DIMM-slots in total offering dual channel capability, supporting speeds of DDR3 1866(OC) / 1600 / 1333 / 1066 MHz officially. There is engough space between the DIMM-slots and the CPU socket which means that larger coolers should have no compatibility issues even when RAM with big heatspreaders are installed. Also supported are Xtreme Memory Profiles (XMP) in version 1.3.
The current converters maintain adequate temperatures via a passive heatpipe cooling solution. There are two separate cooling blocks covering the area, which are connected via a heatpipe. The PCH also has a cooling block, which has not been integrated into the heatpipe loop of the VRM. The fact that the cooling blocks around the CPU socket aren't too big, makes it easier to install a big aircooler. We also noticed the very high manufacturing quality of the cooling blocks.
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