Asus SABERTOOTH990FXGEN3 Sabertooth 990FX/GEN3 R2.0 specifications summary, AMD SB950 Chipset

SABERTOOTH 990FX/GEN3 R2.0 specifications summary

CPU

Chipset

System Bus

Memory

Expansion slots

Multi-GPU support

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

AMD® 990FX / SB950 Chipset

Up to 5.2 GT/s HyperTransport™ 3.0

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 (Qualified 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 specifications, AMD 100 Series CPUs support up to DDR3

1066MHz. With ASUS design, this motherboard can support up to DDR3 1333MHz.

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 first and third PCI Express X16 slot to get the best performance.

Supports NVIDIA® QUAD-GPU SLI™ Technology Supports AMD® QUAD-GPU CrossFireX™ Technology

LAN

Storage

Audio

Realtek® 8111F Gigabit LAN controller

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]

Realtek® ALC892 8-channel high definition 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 filter

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