I had the gigabyte ud7 x79 first. It worked flawless out of the box as well. The only issue I had with that mobo was when you wanted to run at 5.0 or higher the vcore just absolutely exploded. Crazy high just to run vantage or 3d mark11.
 Got the RIVE and it will run at 5.3 at 1.575 all day long if I want it to. The ud7 would not even boot up at 5.0 with 1.575 vcore, lol.  

My first board was a Gigabyte.  I had no issues at all with USB ports.  I decided I wanted an EVGA board instead and returned it.  How dumb do I feel now?

ouch... that must suck.

Folks can make themselves feel better if they want by blaming this on Intel, but it is fact there are other brands out there without these USB issues. My Asus RIVE has been perfect out of the box since last November. I put an Asus P9X79 Deluxe in my son's rig in march that has also ran flawlessly. No USB issues what so ever. In fact, I use the Asus USB 3.0 Turbo Boost feature on both boards with great success dropping transfer times even lower.

I would say that the Sabertooth would be a good choice.

I may be out of the loop on this one, but what USB problems?
Does this occur with the X79 FTW as well?
I know the PCI-E 3.0 thing is up in the air, but I was not aware of any USB issues.
I'm currently using all the regular USB 2.0 ports.
I have a G35 headset, and Attack 3 joystick connected over USB 3.0 with no issues.
The big questions here is maybe for people who have the latest revision of the board, these issues are not present?
 
I remember when newegg pulled the evga line of x79 boards a while ago. Now they are back up, but with new reviews like they have not been reviewed before, unless you do a search for the older listing which shows "Deactivated Item"
 

Running Sabertooth X79 here. No issues with USB 3.0 or PCI-e 3.0. Running two GTX680s in PCI-e 3.0 mode.

Has the usb problem ever been fixed? I have been suffering since 2013 on my x79 ftw with this. Hoping for BIOS update to take care of it

thesupe1
Has the usb problem ever been fixed? I have been suffering since 2013 on my x79 ftw with this. Hoping for BIOS update to take care of it

 
4 Year Old Thread Tuesday, September 04, 2012 was the last Post here, and the Issue for this for the Most Part have been taken care of.  
 
http://forums.evga.com/tm.aspx?m=1670876 is the fix