Review: ASUS Sabertooth Z77
Published by Marc Büchel on 24.07.12Page:
Conclusion
| Allgemein | + | - | |
| The Sabertooth Z77 generally is an interesting board. In combination with a down-draft CPU cooler this motherboard will be cooled very efficiently. This will, as a consequence, extend the components lifespan. With the "Thermal Radar" the Sabertooth Z77 offers good possibilities to control the temperatures and airflow in your case. Using the corresponding software one can control the fans connected to the board and therefore realize highly efficient cooling. | - Design - Cooling concept |
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| Layout | + | - | |
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Generally the ASUS Sabertooth Z77s layout is well thought. Once more very practical are the angled SATA connectors. Unfortunately there are no practical power/reset buttons onboard and also for a debug LED you'd be looking in vain. Unfortunately the last expansion slots is a PCI-Express x16 slot, which means that if you choose to install a dual slots graphics card at this place you're going to cover the connectors at the bottom edge of the board. On the other hand there are two slots between the PCIe-x16 slots which means that an SLI or CrossFire setup will get a perfect environment when it comes to cooling. |
- Angled SATA connectors - Two slots between first two PCIe-x16 slots |
- No Power/Reset-Button onboard - NoDebug display - PCI-Express x16 as last slot |
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| Performance | + | - | |
| With the Sabertooth Z77 ASUS has a solid perfomer in its portfolio. For example in 3DMark 11 and in several SiSoft Sandra tests the board was able to score excellent. A closer look at our overall rankings shows, that this board scores a good fifth place regarding our 3D as well as our 2D rankings. Also concerning power consumption the Sabertooth Z77 isn't too bad at all. You find the board in the center span of our comparison tables, again for both, idle and load power consumption. | -
3DMark 11 Total - SiSoft Sandra |
- PCMark 07 - Cysis |
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| BIOS / Overclocking | + | - | |
| In the overclocking part the Z77 Sabertooth was a very convincing product. Therefore it's been childrens play to reach the clock wall of our test CPU. Furthermore the UEFI BIOS is very easy to use and one can quickly find the settings needed. These days ASUS makes some of the nicest BIOS not only when it comes to the structure but also when you look at the design. | - Well structured BIOS - UEFI-BIOS | ||
| Recommendation | + | - | |
| If you're thinking about building a well performing computer, which is based on Intels latest Ivy Bridge CPU, then the Sabertooth Z77 from ASUS will be a good choice for sure. | -
High-End - Gaming - Overclocking |
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| Rating | |||
| We give the ASUS Sabertooth Z77 sufficient four out of five stars. | |||
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