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Asus Z9PE-D8 WS LGA2011 Motherboard Review

Patrick "MACMAC" MacMillan

2012-06-08 16:32:46.0


OCaholic have posted a review of the ultra high-end ASUS Z9PE-D8 WS workstation motherboard, which features dual XEON CPU support, four PCI-E 3.0 x16 slots and three PCI-E 3.0 x8 slots.

Here's what they had to say:

"At a first glance we can see that this motherboard from Asus is definitely more suitable for enthusiasts than servers/workstations. There are more features that fit the needs of enthusiasts and less for professional useres in the workstation/server area. Nevertheless this doesn't mean Asus failed doing a worksation/enthusiast motherboard. Indeed it has everything you like. There are for example seven full size PCIe Gen3 slots, an onboard 2D graphic processor - in case you need it -, a lot of SATA connectors and even an audio chip. We also liked the overclocking features like onboard reset/power buttons, postcode LED debug as well as a well furnished BIOS with a lot of options."


This is an amazing motherboard as it is one of the few to have four PCI-E x16 slots for graphics use with an additional three x8 slots to cover off anything else you may need. It might be a 'workstation' motherboard, but it would be perfect as a ultra high-end enthusiast model.

Click here to read the full review.

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