Yes, that's the one. Mine has a different type of fan in it though and I want to put one like that has in it. My other X79 Sabertooth has a fan like in the picture above and I bought that mobo new. I bought the second mobo used and it's likely been replaced already. I'll probably get one made by Delta that pushes a lot of cfm. I have to take the cover off to pull the fan and measure it and the mounting screws for the cover are on the back of the board. Since I have to pull it apart to change the paste I'll put a better fan in at the same time. First guess would be a 40mm but I need to know the thickness since it fits under the cover.
Ok....Well I am not sure but as I said above maybe one of those old gpu fan can fit in it like this one:
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Welcome guys! I will go back and see if you were around earlier probably were but I haven't been on here a lot myself so lol forgive me but at the least I didn't notice your posts as often as some of the guys who used to live on here...good luck with that fan and hopefully that fixes your issue with the sabertooth! I never owned that mobo looks cool but know nothing about it or I'd offer my advice.
However, I am delighted to see activity here and also am somewhat saddened but more learned by the experience of my 1680 v2 posting a 00 code yesterday and no bios reset or hard reset or unplugging of any device I could think of to it would fix it....00, period. I have in the past posted that dreadful same scenario with other mobo's and other cpu's with this combo and 00 can be ok if it flashes by quickly and normal boot sequence occurs but if it just stays at 00 you're basically looking at a dead piece of hardware or really bad bios corruption/settings that need to be reset. In this case, I took as a last gasp of desperation my 3930k which THANKFULLY I had kept and put in a drawer which I could find ( don't know about you but in even a relatively small ranch house once CPU can be easy to lose, or throw away even accidentally!) and it booted up just fine.
My theory was immediately the mobo had shit the bed, I literally have never had a CPU not work, I upgrade every 2-10 years depending on generations and money I have available and so far minus this case I never had a CPU fail entirely though some I'm sure had degradation of some degree for the amount I hammered on them. So for roughly 3 years'ish? I'vehad this 1680 and I have pushed it hard and I put it under water and pushed the memory hard...and I think that last bit is the key, I pushed the memory controller very hard and kept the VCCSA and other settings fairly high at times and though I have no idea for sure what lead to the cpu totally giving up I'd bet the ivy bridge just had a bit too much hammering on the IMC and the memory controller is shot or the link between it and the cpu is and it went from a few odd hiccups on occasion to a complete 00 code due to that.
I also gave the CPU a fair dose of voltage but for quite a while now I settled on 4.5 ghz and less than 1.36 volts which I think for 22 nm is quite reasonable especially if you keep the cpu under 70 degrees at all time. So minus having someone diagnose the chip with expertise beyond what I have to physically see what is wrong or with software try and test is that is my only reasonable guess particularly since I backed off the old 4.625 ghz overclock I used to have on it and at one point I was pushing for 4.7 but admittedly that was a pipe dream minus a few fluke runs where it passed certain tests etc.
So long story short, I think Ivy bridge E has a potentially very good memory controller, but it was pushed to the limit for the platform and when you have 2666 mhz + speeds and tight timings along with a healthy dose of voltage on the memory controller related settings even if within reason over time you MAY end up with a CPU that pukes like mine did.
So if anyone here is actually going to stick with this platform for any length of time I think that is a good lesson for you, the 32nm is far less capable on the memory overclocks but I have 2 cpu's a 3930k and my initial 3960k sample which both still work and I tortured both pretty hard but the IMC's on those just will not produce the #'s the 22nm Ivy does but it does appear either 8 cores on 22nm unlocked is really pushing the limit and/or the IMC which is improved on IVY vs. Sandy in conjunction with the die shrink is great for a few years on a great OC board like my X79 Black but it does appear the CPU really is pushed to its' utter limits and longevity could be an issue. I only have 1 1680v2 so not a big sample size but I've been OC'ing and on these forums for 15 + years and NEVER had a CPU refuse to post, I've only had a couple mobo's that had bent pins or other issues and even that was fairly rare. So in summary, I think Intel may have moved on from the X79 architecture to the X99 despite the minimal gains partially due to the fact that X79 and the CPU's with it were pushed to the furthest point one could expect to harness from the platform.
I'm going to re-install my 3930k for I only slapped it on with minimal thermal compound because I honestly thought the MOBO was kaput and the cpu wasn't the issue and was amazed it booted at all. This does however make me wonder if my old X79 Black is perfectly fine and all the issues it had was the CPU, but a lot of the issues there did seem to have a tie to the mobo so unless I feel really brave or bored this board is staying for now for it seems stable unlike that old board which posted great #'s but would randomly restart which I believe was due to bad mobo phases/transistors. Anyway for the moment I'm up and running at least at minimal clocks and will update you on my progress on OC'ing and re-installing cpu with good compound and better contact with the watercooling I have.
