Asus limited edition Sabertooth motherboard – SA price, specs

Are you tired of your motherboard being shot by snipers while on missions in an Arctic wasteland? I know I am.

Thankfully Asus has a solution to our problem – a motherboard so cool it can successfully hide in any patch of tundra vegetation.

The new, limited edition Asus Sabertooth Z97 Mark S board comes covered in TUF’s Thermal Armour, with all kinds of air flow technology and a camouflage paint job which will render it invisible to enemies.

Before we go into more detail, take a look at what I am talking about.

Asus Z97 Sabertooth

The new board also comes with Thermal Radar 2 software, which Asus say is an easy way to keep your system cool through fan tuning.

Other features of the board include a reinforced back plate which will handle the weight of any CPU cooling assembly and graphics cards; colour-matched white TUF Dust Defenders to cover unused slots, protecting the PC against minuscule particles; and the fact that each board is numbered according to when it came off the production line.

The Sabertooth’s basic specifications have been laid out in the table below.

Asus Sabertooth Z97 Mark S
CPU Socket	LGA 1150 (4th, new 4th, and 5th gen i3, i5, i7)
Chipset	Intel Z97
RAM	Up to 32GB DD3 1866MHz
PCI Express	2 x PCI 3.0/2.0 x16 slots, 1 x PCI 2.0 x16 slots, 3 x PCI 2.0 x1 slots
Multi-GPU	Nvidia quad-SLI and AMD CrossFire
Sata	6 x 6Gbit/s
Networking	Intel I218-V Gigabit LAN controller
USB	8 x USB 3.0/2.0 ports (4 on back panel, 4 mid-board)
Dimensions	30.5×24.4cm

Asus are really punting the Sabertooth’s ability to help keep your system as cool as possible, promising that the board has gone through the most extreme of tests to ensure it is worthy of the master race’s attention.

The Sabertooth is scheduled to go on sale in SA on 15 December 2014, and Asus has estimated the retail price will be around the R3,890 mark.