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SABERTOOTH 990FX/GEN3 R2.0 specications summary
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CPU AMD® Socket AM3+ for AMD® FX series CPU up to 8-core
compatible with AMD® Socket AM3 for AMD® Phenom™ II /
Athlon II™ / Sempron™ 100 series processors
Supports AMD® 140W CPU
AMD® Cool ‘n’ Quiet Technology
Supports 32nm CPU
Chipset AMD® 990FX / SB950 Chipset
System Bus Up to 5.2 GT/s HyperTransport™ 3.0
Memory 4 x DIMM, max. 32GB, DDR3 1866 / 1600 / 1333 / 1066 MHz, ECC,
non-ECC, un-buffered memory
Dual channel memory architecture
* Refer to www.asus.com for Memory QVL (Qualied Vendors List) of
AM3+ / AM3 CPU for details.
** Due to OS limitation, when installing a total memory of 4GB capacity
or more, Windows® 32-bit operation system may only recognize
less than 3GB. Hence, a total installed memory of less than 3GB is
recommended.
*** Due to CPU specications, AMD 100 Series CPUs support up to DDR3
1066MHz. With ASUS design, this motherboard can support up to
DDR3 1333MHz.
Expansion slots 3 x PCI Express 3.0 x16 slots (Dual at x16/x16, triple at x16/x8/x8
mode)*
1 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot (black@x16)
1 x PCI slot
* When running dual graphics cards, ensure to insert the card in the rst
and third PCI Express X16 slot to get the best performance.
Multi-GPU support Supports NVIDIA® QUAD-GPU SLI™ Technology
Supports AMD® QUAD-GPU CrossFireX™ Technology
LAN Realtek® 8111F Gigabit LAN controller
Storage AMD® SB950 Chipset
- 6 x SATA 6.0 Gb/s ports with RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10 support
ASMedia® SATA 6Gb/s controllers
- 2 x SATA 6Gb/s ports
- 2 x eSATA 6Gb/s ports [red]
Audio Realtek® ALC892 8-channel high denition audio
CODEC
- Absolute Pitch 192khz/24bit True BD Lossless Sound
- BD audio layer content protection
- Supports jack-detection, multi-streaming and front panel jack-
retasking
- Optical S/PDIF out ports at back I/O
- ASUS noise lter