The Z77 Sabertooth Club.

Hi,

So I have just got myself a new Sabertooth Z77 and spent last night building my new pc until late. Think I have finished but had to get some sleep before switching it all on. I do have some questions though and hope someone can help.

I have a 128gb SSD hard drive and a Seagate Barracuda 1TB SATA-III hard drive.
I was wondering which SATA ports I should be using? The motherboard has 4 SATA III ports, 2 controlled by intel and 2 using ASMedia. (I think this is correct, but I am new to this) For the SSD I was thinking of going with the intel? Could anyone explain if this is recommended and what the difference is between them? The manual seems to recommend the ASMedia sockets but I can't find out why.

As for the 1TB drive, as I understand it even though it is SATA III I won't notice any speed gains so may as well use one of the SATA II ports. Is that correct? I am leaving this disconnected for now until I install the OS onto the SSD.
 
Ok, so i played about with the OC settings in BIOS and i must say WOW, it is almost too easy to achieve a reasonable OC with next to no effort.

For those unsure where to start I'll share my settings in the second post.

When i say reasonable i mean i2500K @ 4.6GHz and speedstep on.

If you want a higher OC you should play about a little and i'm sure you will eventually get the result you are after. For me personally 4.6GHz is more than enough for now.
 
MrTurnipHead said:
Hi,

So I have just got myself a new Sabertooth Z77 and spent last night building my new pc until late. Think I have finished but had to get some sleep before switching it all on. I do have some questions though and hope someone can help.

I have a 128gb SSD hard drive and a Seagate Barracuda 1TB SATA-III hard drive.
I was wondering which SATA ports I should be using? The motherboard has 4 SATA III ports, 2 controlled by intel and 2 using ASMedia. (I think this is correct, but I am new to this) For the SSD I was thinking of going with the intel? Could anyone explain if this is recommended and what the difference is between them? The manual seems to recommend the ASMedia sockets but I can't find out why.

As for the 1TB drive, as I understand it even though it is SATA III I won't notice any speed gains so may as well use one of the SATA II ports. Is that correct? I am leaving this disconnected for now until I install the OS onto the SSD.
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Put your SSD's on the Intel Sata 3 ports for better bandwidth mate. AS media have high latencys.
 
LeeMc said:
Hi all , loving this board now i've got my head around the UEFI Bios lol
Got my IvyBridge to 5.0ghz quite easily but need to have a mess around some more with mem and lower voltages etc , sure it'll take me weeks to get it just right.
Here's a piccie of my build.

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loving the swivel fittings they are good arnt they
 
majnu said:
Cool, thanks :)

It didn't work. I keep getting CPU fan header error in bios and it won't load into windows, even though both fans connected to the rad are running
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Your pump should have the 3 pin plug which is used to power the pump

Make sure you have the 3 pin plugged into the CPU_FAN pins, I think it is the set of pins furthest to the right. Any of the other CPU fan headers and it will beep at you and give you a header error.

Don't want to sound pedantic or what not but some of these things can be overlooked... I put the 3 pin CPU fan into the wrong header and it took me a while to go back to basics haha

Edit: I thought you said H100 but the concept is the same.
 
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jallan said:
Your pump should have the 3 pin plug which is used to power the pump

Make sure you have the 3 pin plugged into the CPU_FAN pins, I think it is the set of pins furthest to the right. Any of the other CPU fan headers and it will beep at you and give you a header error.

Don't want to sound pedantic or what not but some of these things can be overlooked... I put the 3 pin CPU fan into the wrong header and it took me a while to go back to basics haha

Edit: I thought you said H100 but the concept is the same.
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I haven't got a clue what you said buddy as you never gave context to which 3 pin goes where. The H60 pump is plugged into a random 3 pin header on the motherboard. Are you saying that I should connect the pump into the CPU 3 pin motherboard header?

Additionally these Assistant fans are doing my nuts in. Even when I select disable they refuse to turn off and spin at 3000rpm. Either I am doing something wrong or there is a bug in the AI suite.
 
majnu said:
I haven't got a clue what you said buddy as you never gave context to which 3 pin goes where. The H60 pump is plugged into a random 3 pin header on the motherboard. Are you saying that I should connect the pump into the CPU 3 pin motherboard header?
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Bump, is that what I should do?

edit - sorted. I selected cpu ignore in bios
 
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I don't know how much i trust the software. Also when you connect the pump to the CPU_FAN header it will warn you if/when you pump fails, especially on startup where most other software and hardware will not.
 
xxShinobixx said:
I don't know how much i trust the software. Also when you connect the pump to the CPU_FAN header it will warn you if/when you pump fails, especially on startup where most other software and hardware will not.
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Is that a feature of the Sabertooth? :eek:

If it does that then I'll connect the H60 pump to the CPU Fan Header as that is a nice feature.
 
majnu said:
I haven't got a clue what you said buddy as you never gave context to which 3 pin goes where. The H60 pump is plugged into a random 3 pin header on the motherboard. Are you saying that I should connect the pump into the CPU 3 pin motherboard header?

Additionally these Assistant fans are doing my nuts in. Even when I select disable they refuse to turn off and spin at 3000rpm. Either I am doing something wrong or there is a bug in the AI suite.
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Your pumps plug has a 3 pin plug > Put that 3 pin plug into the fan header that says "CPU_FAN", not CPU_OPT1 or whatever but CPU_FAN. That will eliminate your beeping/warnings. Otherwise the motherboard thinks, OH S*** NO FAN

On the AI suite make a custom profile and set "allow stop" or something like that and just put it at a high threshold before they turn on. Mine don't come on until the components get to around 36/7
 
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