Hardware Motherboards decision

[mmonster]

I'm trying to make a decision between the Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 AMD 990FX (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard and Asus Crosshair V Formula Z AMD 990FX (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard. Everyone had nothing but praise for the Sabertooth 990FX but not sure about the Crosshair V Formula! Price difference is about £40 but I wonder if it is worth it?

CPU wise I'm going for the AMD 8350 FX 8 Core 4.0Ghz which I hope to be overclock every now and then but most time will keep at standard speed.

 

[little_pob]

Same Chipset and Southbridge. So it's the differences and extras that are going to sway it. For example, the Sabertooth sports 3x PCI-e 3.0 slots (though PCI-e 3.0 cards are backwards compatible with PCI-e 2.0 slots)

 

[mmonster]

The Sabretooth seems to be more about durability as for the Crosshair it supports faster Ram about 2133 compared to only 1866 on the Sabretooth. Even when I rang to overclockers they told me that the Crosshair provides more stable overclocking. I doubt if I will be pushing the setup much as I will either stick to air cooling or basic water cooling setup so pushing the 4.0ghz processor just to anything between 4.4 and 4.8 though getting 5.0Ghz would be nice.

Same Chipset and Southbridge. So it's the differences and extras that are going to sway it. For example, the Sabertooth sports 3x PCI-e 3.0 slots (though PCI-e 3.0 cards are backwards compatible with PCI-e 2.0 slots)

 

[mmonster]

Well finally put on the throttle and decided to finish building a new rig.

• Asus Crosshair V Formula Z AMD 990FX (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard
• AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8350 Black Edition 4.00GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor
• Corsair Vengeance Pro Red 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit
• Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Tri-X OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
• Samsung 500GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s
• Corsair Hydro H110 280mm High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
• Corsair RM Series RM 1000 '80+ Gold' 1000W Power Supply
• Corsair Carbide 540 High Airflow ATX Cube black case

At this point I've ran out of money so the dual 29" monitors will have to follow up next month