this a good board for fx8120?

[leo5111]

this board http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131736 i like it but, i saw in a thread people were having slow boot up issues with when useing multiple hard drives here http://www.overclock.net/t/1245021/s...lows-down-boot , me i will use a sata ssd for boot,a sata dvd drive, then like 4 sata hard drives that are just storage drives,i dont want to buy the board and have the slow boot issues so just wanted to hear from more people who have this board thanks

[BeepBeep2]

You will be fine.
After all, the guy in that thread didn't set up his board right, or even disable the boot logo to find out what the problem was...but in the end he seemingly fixed it.

If you don't mind Open Box deals (30 day refund only "warranty") then the Crosshair V Formula is good too:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...2E16813131735R

[Cecil]

I have the Sabertooth for my 8120 and love it. Just disable the jmicron boot page, and set the countdown to 1sec and its plenty fast enough.

I also had the CHV before which was also a great board, but I think I like the Sabertooth more as a daily ran board.

[tbone8ty]

asus sabertooth or CH5....nothing else compares

[leo5111]

thanks guys, 99% chance i will get the sabertooth 1% chance i could decide to pony up more cash and get the crosshair...

[BeepBeep2]

Open Box Crosshair is $20 cheaper

You just have to hope the board doesn't fail VRM wise in the future as long as it works when it gets to you. Even then, you could send it to ASUS for payed repair.

[Daveburt714]

I have the Sabertooth for my 8120 and love it. Just disable the jmicron boot page, and set the countdown to 1sec and its plenty fast enough.

I also had the CHV before which was also a great board, but I think I like the Sabertooth more as a daily ran board.

I have to agree Cecil. The Saber is a really nice board!
I'm running the C5F on my main rig mainly because of RCTweakit and the IO panel CMOS reset.

One thing I liked about the Saber was it had sensors for PWM/NB temps that showed up in HWMonitor/AI Suite...

Either board would be a good choice leo, they both OC and perform about the same.
In a strange way, I actually like the Saber better (personal preference).

Really, the only reason I have the C5F in my main rig is because I'm always swapping gear out (CPU/Mem etc) and the above mentioned features make things a little easier...

[tbone8ty]

theirs a sale going on at new egg asus sabertook for $174.99

check email promotion for code

[Cecil]

Open Box Crosshair is $20 cheaper

You just have to hope the board doesn't fail VRM wise in the future as long as it works when it gets to you. Even then, you could send it to ASUS for payed repair.

Are you saying that about the open box CHV or the Sabertooth? I wouldnt worry about either, cause ASUS warranty is by serial so even if its open box, its covered. And one of the reasons I prefer the Sabertooth for daily is that it seems built "stronger" and has a 5 year warranty apposed to 3. I think that this will actually be the first board Ive ever bought that Ill keep long enough to worry about warranty lol. Having two temp sensors on the VRMs is also a huge plus. Ive got a Crucial ram fan over the VRM heatsink on mine (fits perfectly on it) and havent seen them top 65C.


Ive seen open box Sabertooths for $150 a lot at newegg. If you are lucky and have a MicroCenter near by, you can get one cheaper with a CPU combo if you dont have the CPU already (or you could get another just to sell) or open box (or both).



EDIT: Just saw MC has the 8120 for $149 now.

[Utnorris]

Yep, got an OB Sabertooth today with the FX8120. Chip was $150 and the Sabertooth was $70 for a total $238 tax and all. It was missing the I/O shield, but I can live with that. I really wanted another 960t, but I may decide to keep the FX since I would pair it with my CHV for my gaming setup. The reason I prefer the CHV is the Advanced RMA and the water cooling capability since EK makes a block for it, but not one for the Sabertooth.

[BeepBeep2]

Are you saying that about the open box CHV or the Sabertooth? I wouldnt worry about either, cause ASUS warranty is by serial so even if its open box, its covered. And one of the reasons I prefer the Sabertooth for daily is that it seems built "stronger" and has a 5 year warranty apposed to 3. I think that this will actually be the first board Ive ever bought that Ill keep long enough to worry about warranty lol. Having two temp sensors on the VRMs is also a huge plus. Ive got a Crucial ram fan over the VRM heatsink on mine (fits perfectly on it) and havent seen them top 65C.


Ive seen open box Sabertooths for $150 a lot at newegg. If you are lucky and have a MicroCenter near by, you can get one cheaper with a CPU combo if you dont have the CPU already (or you could get another just to sell) or open box (or both).



EDIT: Just saw MC has the 8120 for $149 now.

I was saying that Open Box CHV was $20 cheaper than retail box Sabertooth.

I forgot all about ASUS's warranty policy. I bought a monitor off of someone that was ASUS branded for an extremely low price that had a busted button console...ASUS told me to RMA it because it was a known defect, free of charge outside shipping. Unfortunately I never got around to getting it fixed, (and the warranty is up now) but it would have been nice.

[Daveburt714]

The reason I prefer the CHV is the Advanced RMA and the water cooling capability since EK makes a block for it, but not one for the Sabertooth.

The Sabertooth has the same "cross-ship" RMA service...

[Utnorris]

The Sabertooth has the same "cross-ship" RMA service...

Seriously? That is good to hear. I still plan on a Sabertooth/960t combo for my server and the CHV/8120 combo for my main box.

[Panther_Seraphi]

I have a sabertooth Rocking a 1090t and I have to say it blows my old M3A79 out of the water. Before where the PC wouldnt even post below 1.48v for 4 this board will do it with 1.41 at 4

Talk about a moment when I opened HW monitor to check things out. Obviously it wasnt stable at that voltage but to POST, Boot, get into windows, Load a BLOATED os and even start prime for 5 minutes at such low voltage I thought someone was pulling my Chain

Really have to try and see where this board can go

[SBB]

For a budget OC-ing board i've found the Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 to be great - I think it's down to personal preference whether you prefer GB or ASUS, they both make nice AM3 boards

[Cecil]

The Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 uses the same CPU power setup as the 8 series boards, which is designed for PHII. With Bulldozer, it will throttle half the cores very early in the OC, and if you disable it (like I did) it blows up (like mine did). I was barely OCed at all, and did the trick to disable OCP, and bam. Couple minutes in to prime95 and my vregs and NB were north of 80C, killed the board and CPU. It OCs fine if you dont mind half the cores being crippled under high stress though.

The UD5/UD7 has a stronger power delivery setup and is built more for BD though, and either of them would be fine. UD3 is great for PHIIs though.

[leo5111]

well im planning to get a sabertooth most likely

[Augustus]

The Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 uses the same CPU power setup as the 8 series boards, which is designed for PHII. With Bulldozer, it will throttle half the cores very early in the OC, and if you disable it (like I did) it blows up (like mine did). I was barely OCed at all, and did the trick to disable OCP, and bam. Couple minutes in to prime95 and my vregs and NB were north of 80C, killed the board and CPU. It OCs fine if you dont mind half the cores being crippled under high stress though.

The UD5/UD7 has a stronger power delivery setup and is built more for BD though, and either of them would be fine. UD3 is great for PHIIs though.

Completely agree with all of this.

Even looking at the cooling on the VRM shows it wasn't designed for the high current draw of FX. Coupled with the lack of LLC (bad design decision) on V1.0 boards and mental over-volting (another bad design decision) of the CPU at load this really isn't a board to be used for FX. Mines blew up while stress-testing as well.

I also moved to a Sabertooth and the difference is night and day to the GB.

[leo5111]

im still debateing its either going to be a sabertooth or crosshair amazon has the crosshair for 219.99 no tax for me in california