ASUS 990FX Sabertooth leaked

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sabertooth=abit FATA1TY

its ironic the ROG series is the name they give to the ocers fav boards. they should call the sabertooth ROG series and rename ROG series to ROC series.
regardless the board looks awesome! I am still on the sabertooth x58 as my 24/7 rig. its a very solid board. but its just no Rampage in terms of ocing.
I hope some day we see some dedicated x8 pcie slots for the high end raid cards. It sucks that I have to plug a x8 raid card into a x16 slot and them my x16 slot for the video is running at 8x pcie/ or I plug the raid card in the bottom slot that is physically like a x16 slot but it runs at 4x.
so no matter what you lose bandwidth. what is the chipset capable of supporting? does anyone know the 990FX bandwidth of all the x16 slots? is it x8/x8 or x16/x16 or x16/x8 16x/4x? just curious.


***EDIT***
according to the diagram it says grey 2x 16x pciex
brown pcie8x

dk brown 4x
if those all run at x16/16 8x 4x all together this is awesome!
this is exactly what ive been waiting for in terms of a non server board with x16/x16 and a real 8x I can use. You guys with the fancy raid cards will get how important this is. this is exactly what we need.
for a 24/7 gaming rig /raid card setup this is perfect. asus nailed it! I love all the posts about the aesthetics of the board. shame on you guys. look at the big picture.

for example most of the boards that promote triple x16 slots like my x58 sabertooth goes like this:

you have 2 x16 pcie for crossfire/sli
if you populate one slot you have x16 (full bandwidth to your vga card)
you populate 2 x16 slots and it cuts in in half so now its x8/x8
great I spent money on 2 cards for crossfire/sli but the chipset is running them at half the bandwidth.
then throw in a raid card like lsi 9260 that runs at x8.

so say I have a single vga but I want that card in there and plug it in the other x16 slot. well even if that card only runs at x8 since both slots are populated youre vga is running at x8 and your raid card is at x8. great my raid card is running at full bandwidth but my vga is running at half bandwidth.
so I take the raid card and put it in the bottom slot that looks like a x16 slot but its actually only running at 4x. so not the vga is running at x16 but now the x8 raid card is running at 4x.

do you get it?

this board fixes all that. I am excited to see how the new chipset does onboard raid. Intel has dominated the onboard raid performance. I am curious to see how much attention amd gave their onboard raid this time around.