ASUS TUF Series Mainboard，SABERTOOTH 55i

[Nautilius]

ASUS FTL Series 55i .. Sabertooths!(?) Weapons for cooling!(?) 1337 talk!(?) Get it today! *not*

...the hell with Asus?!


















This board is just... FAIL...

[saint-francis]

Asus....... This board.........BS Asus marketing = a bunch of useless s**t that is designed to dupe noobs into paying 200% more than the gear is worth.


I guess all I really have to say is....

[saaya]

hahahahhahah wow that pic was really not what i expected...
same color as the green on the board!

[Brian y.]

Well as long as the price point is correct and the performance is there, that is all I care about.

As for looks, all mobo's look the same with insulation

[urgrandpasdog]

I normally try to avoid BS marketing gimmicks, but this is just waaaayy over the line. I could never take this board seriously no matter how well it performs.

[Mungri]

This is seriously so LOL and so FTL that it SRYSLY looks like a fake joke.

The MemOK and the mofset cooling thing with the upside down ¡ r just ROFFLESAUCE.

It looks like Asus are just messing around and making fun of MSI and Gigabyte, but even things like Circupipe (circular heatpipe), DR Mos (named after some MSI boss person), and Ultra Durable are far far far less lame sounding then this junk from Asus is.

No way can this board be real. It must have been photoshopped by a 12 year old genius of a prankster.

[illidan]

where's the 8pin power connector?

edit: found it

[grimREEFER]

umm, i actually thought this was toned down, ie better looking, than popular gigabyte or evga boards.

[Kallenator]

umm, i actually thought this was toned down, ie better looking, than popular gigabyte or evga boards.

I agree, I also like the more subtle coloring.

But really, if the board is good and has a decent layout then it might as well look ugly for all I care.

[sholvaco]

@ the backlash. Crying over some marketing catch phrases... pull that log out of your ass pretty please. It's meant to attract the military buff (geek ) types, therefore the camo colors and all the acronym mumbo jumbo.

I can see how some people can't dig the color palette, but then again there are also those of us whose tastes have moved beyond the screaming crayon primaries on neutrals combo prevalent in current component visual design trends. Someone has taken an initiative to stir things up a bit and offer something slightly different looking and whether it sets off a new trend or not I find this a welcome addition. I'd wait for some high resolution marketing beauty shots before forming a definitive opinion though; snuck out low res thumbs of actual slides intended for retail briefings can be a bit decieving.

Feature wise this board seems more of a midrange product, more like the EVO equivalent rather than that of a ROG board. Hope there are more of these in the pipeline.

[G80]

TUF- the ultimate fail, no seriously wth does it stand for?

[sholvaco]

For anyone too dumb or oblivious to even properly read the slides (I know that ol' finger is itchin' for a speedy troll):

TUF stands for The Ultimate Force, which in it self barely means anything, but as an acronym could be read out loud as tough, a (catch) phrase that plays nicely into the main selling point behind this line of products: superior durability. The name was made to fit the acronym "after the fact" which is not uncommon in the marketing world.



Says so right on the PCB, left of the CPU socket: the writing beneath the big logo, which also reads as TUF (with a little bit of imagination some of you apparently lack).

Now please get on with the programme and write something constructive for a change.

[Etihtsarom]

Jesus, are they effing serious? How about that. Asus dishing out more stuff that they will overcharge and undersupport. I can see it now: "Oh, right, you folks need new BIOS? TUF " "Your board died and you wanna RMA? TUF" Well f*&K it, lets hope they have a one shot perfect OC board that'll never need any support. As for the design, looks like , not that it really matters since boards get pretty much all covered up w/ components any how.

Edit: Totally love the CoolMem FAN BRACKET "Innovation"

Asus TUF Series Motherboards ... Because we all take hammers to Asus boards once in a while...

[Chrono Detector]

The board itself does look kinda ugly, though I've seen worse. Only 4 SATA ports? Lame.

[hazardous]

I just dont understand where this fits into the p55 lineup. We've already seen a full range of products from the budget all the way to the ROG board, and this seems totally unnecessary. Giving the consumer options is generally a good thing, but there reaches a point where its just overkill. I can only imagine that if they had fewer boards per series they would save money on R&D, produce better quality boards, and offer better support and bios updates for each product.

[DragoonXX]

The board itself does look kinda ugly, though I've seen worse. Only 4 SATA ports? Lame.

uhh...I count 8...not 4
but there are only 4 that sit at a right angle
the other 4 sit right below the drive xpert (one is orange, one is white, the other two are black)

[G80]

For anyone too dumb or oblivious to even properly read the slides (I know that ol' finger is itchin' for a speedy troll):

TUF stands for The Ultimate Force, which in it self barely means anything, but as an acronym could be read out loud as tough, a (catch) phrase that plays nicely into the main selling point behind this line of products: superior durability. The name was made to fit the acronym "after the fact" which is not uncommon in the marketing world.



Says so right on the PCB, left of the CPU socket: the writing beneath the big logo, which also reads as TUF (with a little bit of imagination some of you apparently lack).

Now please get on with the programme and write something constructive for a change.

Hey not everyone looks at these things with a magnifying glass. So go easy with the attitude silly.
Also they call the mosfets and caps "TUF" which makes you believe they use some kind of new technology no one knows about. But is actually just bs. confusing, but thats marketing.

[labs23]

Most will notice the TUF to "TOUGH" since the posting.

Marketing is the main move for the board, since their already ample line-up should suffice. Plus they have the "ROG" too.

Or, are their current line-up not "tough" enough, that they feel the need of adding "TUF".
Their new Gigabyte-inspired Xtreme Design is supposed to do all the buffing for their newer mobos, right?

[ShArKo]

Woooww nice motherboard......how much it cost?

the TUF series is better thank ROG edition? :p

[damtachoa]

I have a feeling that asus designers might have a problem these days.

[Raja@ASUS]

We don't know pricing yet or performance. I like the look of the board, its just a matter of how well it works.

I think people take offence to companies slapping cheesy gimmick names to technology that in some cases is nothing special. Cut that stuff out and you probably drop 50% of the hate right there.

[Leeghoofd]

The MemOK and the mofset cooling thing with the upside down ¡ r just ROFFLESAUCE.

MemOK worked fine on my GENE II, no comments ther. Is it really needed ? If you know what you are doing, nope... but did I allready tell you it works nicely :p

If the ceramique cooling works, I would prefer it, over them silly alloy copper plated heatsink rollercoasters anytime.... time will tell it this stuff works and isn't just a PR's guys wet dream...

[gatecrasherlok]

Does look fugly but if it performs well then its all good really

[Brian y.]

We don't know pricing yet or performance. I like the look of the board, its just a matter of how well it works.

I think people take offence to companies slapping cheesy gimmick names to technology that in some cases is nothing special. Cut that stuff out and you probably drop 50% of the hate right there.

+1

[Raja@ASUS]

Mem OK on the ROG latest BIOS, you can save a BIOS profile to the button and engage it quickly at boot. Nice quick load feature to boot the board I guess if you need it.


Btw, the ceramic hs on this board seems to work to an extent, a colleague is testing the board as we speak.

regards
Raja