ASUS company presented the motherboard ASUS TUF Sabertooth 990FX GEN3 R2.0-size ATX, the key feature is the interface PCI Express 3.0. The on-board slots PCI Express 3.0 x16 can install up to three 3D-cards in NVIDIA SLI configuration, or AMD CrossFireX . There is also one slot PCI Express 2.0 x16 and PCI.
The base is chipset AMD 990FX and SB950. Card is designed for processor performance AM3 + with TDP up to 140W. The power system is built on a 10-phase (8 +2) scheme with digital control.
Memory module has four DIMM DDR3 slots. The maximum amount of memory - 32 GB. Equipment of TUF Sabertooth 990FX GEN3 R2.0 includes six SATA 6 Gb / s connected to the SB950, which support RAID 0, 1, 5, 10. Another two SATA 6 Gb / s ports and two eSATA 6 Gb / s controller with added ASMedia. The number of ports USB 3.0 - six, USB 2.0 - twice. There is a Gigabit Ethernet port on the controller Realtek RTL8111F and audio codec Realtek ALC892.
Sales of ASUS TUF Sabertooth 990FX GEN3 R2.0 start in mid-March.