Introduction

With the release of Ivy Bridge processors we finally startup our reviews on Intel Z77 motherboards as well. This week we'll have a lot of Z77 motherboards to show you! We'll handle the ASUS Sabertooth Z77 motherboard today.

TUF - The Ultimate Force - You know in the 2nd revision of the TUF motherboard series I figured, naah, that plastic shield is not going to work out. In the 3nd revision ASUS even left it out likely due to comments from the media. It's back though and in full effect at the all new Intel Z77 chipset based TUF (The Ultimate Force) motherboard from ASUS.

Granted, it's a handsome motherboard alright, look at that.

Z77 is of course the Intel chipset predominantly released for Ivy Bridge based processors. These motherboards will have a slightly altered feature set and thus support them new Ivy Bridge apples from Intel. Good to know however is that Z77 also supports Sandy Bridge, Socket 1155 based processors, that's right your favorite Core i5 2500K and Core i7 2600K will be perfect for these motherboards as well.

The changes for Z77 primarily can be found in native USB 3.0 support as well as an upgrade towards PCie gen 3 PCIe x16 slots. This article is a full review of what you may expect from the TUF series Sabertooth Z77, have peek after which we'll dive right into the photo shoot.