Over at a seminar in London last week Asus was showing off their new ASUS' TUF series motherboards have been seen as parallel to its Republic of Gamers (ROG) series. TUF series motherboard feature unparalleled durability and next-generation motherboard components, including "breakthrough innovations in materials--ceramic and metal--for exceptional Cooling". The Sabertooth i55, the latest of the TUF series motherboard, brings all this, in an all-new P55 motherboard design.
- CPU is powered by a 12+2 phase VRM
- Four DDR3 DIMM slots rely on a 2-phase VRM
- SATA ports, supporting ASUS DriveXpert technology
- Two PCI-E 2.0 x16 (arrange as x8, x8 in SLI and CrossFireX), two PCI-E x1, and two PCI
- Metal heatsinks with ceramic coating that boosts surface area by 50% for better heat dissipation
- Durable "TUF-branded" MOSFETs, and capacitors
I snagged a couple of photo's, check em out:
