John P. Myers
02-22-13, 10:54 PM
http://news.softpedia.com/news/ASUS-TUF-Sabertooth-990FX-GEN3-R2-0-Motherboard-330373.shtml
Finally someone slapped a booster chip on an AMD mobo so it'll support USB 3.0 and PCIe 3.0, as unnatural as it may be, and is available on the 2nd revision of this board only - to be released mid-march. AMD's 990FX chipset does not support USB or PCIe 3.0 so Asus welded something to their board that does.
This board has 4 PCIe x16 slots, but only 3 of them are 3.0. The other is only 2.0 and they also threw in a plain PCI slot for a total of 5 slots. Very odd number, but you'll notice unexplained heatsinks clogging up the expansion plane, which are most likely hiding the reason the board supports USB/PCIe 3.0 as well as 3-way SLI/XFire (something made by Lucid is my guess).
Enjoy :)
Finally someone slapped a booster chip on an AMD mobo so it'll support USB 3.0 and PCIe 3.0, as unnatural as it may be, and is available on the 2nd revision of this board only - to be released mid-march. AMD's 990FX chipset does not support USB or PCIe 3.0 so Asus welded something to their board that does.
This board has 4 PCIe x16 slots, but only 3 of them are 3.0. The other is only 2.0 and they also threw in a plain PCI slot for a total of 5 slots. Very odd number, but you'll notice unexplained heatsinks clogging up the expansion plane, which are most likely hiding the reason the board supports USB/PCIe 3.0 as well as 3-way SLI/XFire (something made by Lucid is my guess).
Enjoy :)