Once the joystick was unplugged, the wandering pointer issue was resolved.
Just so happens that un-calibrated joystick is not perfectly centered, so the BIOS thought an input device was moving the mouse cursor down and to the right. Turns out I had a joystick plugged in and the UEFI BIOS was recognizing that as a mouse. With a lot of work I could get into the advanced section, but I thought the BIOS implementation was bugged. For some reason when I first got into the BIOS, my mouse cursor would be drawn to the lower right corner of the screen. The BIOS is very responsive and the use of the mouse is nicely integrated. Users can get a good idea of what they should and should not tweak, depending on the complexity of the description. What is fantastic about the BIOS is the inclusion of pretty detailed descriptions of what each setting does. Then it offers an advanced mode that allows the user to adjust everything under the sun. So let us start from the bottom up.Īsus includes a very polished UEFI BIOS which allows for a simple EZ-Mode for basic power and overclocking features. So many features are usually included it is hard to cover them all adequately. The complexity of these products at this point in time is intimidating to reviewers.
I mentioned before that motherboards are no longer simple products. Sparse? Spartan? I would go with spartan, especially considering the color palette.
SABERTOOTH 990FX REAMP FULL
Asus is so confident in their design that they offer a full 5 year warranty on this motherboard, which is unmatched at the consumer level. This is not a ding against Asus, as I would expect their capacitor choice to be as long lasting as the MSI board, considering the age of the technology when those polymer caps fail in about 7 to 10 years time. In this case the ceramics used in these designs conduct heat fairly well, but the biggest advantage is the very uneven microscopic surface features which increase overall surface area as compared to standard metal/alloy heatsinks.Īsus goes for much of the same type of component choice as MSI does with its Military Class II, with the exception of not using the tantalum (Hi-C) caps that MSI chooses to. But not all ceramics are insulators though. Usually ceramics are used as insulators, so this is confusing to some. Instead of a full metal/alloy unit, these are metal sinks with a ceramic covering. The defining feature of the boards has to be the unique heatsinks used to cool the components. I hear Ryan Shrout doesn’t believe in recycling OR the tooth fairy. The SABERTOOTH (I so want to type SABERTOOF) is nicely packaged in mostly recyclable material.
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