Workstation Series Motherboards
The ASUS Workstation series focuses on designing motherboards for use by high-end graphics professionals who need stable and high-performance boards with enhanced graphics capabilities. The new revision boards in the Workstation line have a built-in PLX chip for up to 4 x x8 PCI-Express x16 video card support. Additionally, ASUS enhanced the Dr Power functionality featuring 4 micro-second polling of monitored device with on-board analog to digital conversion hardware. The boards also have built-in Thunderbolt port support and feature a 4-digit diagnostic LED for enhanced system initialization troubleshooting.
Notable Workstation series board features include
- Japanese-sourced capacitors rated at 12k hours at 105C operating temperatures
- Updated fan headers supporting 1 amp power draw per header
- XMP switch for auto-load of memory XMP specifications without need to access the BIOS
- Dr Power featuring analog to digital signal converter for a 4 micro-second response time
- Dual Intel Gigabit Ethernet ports
- Thunderbolt 2 port and on-board header
- 4-digit Q-Code diagnostic LED display
- PLX chipset allows for x8 bandwidth across up to four PCI Express x16 slots
Z97-WS motherboard
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Z97-WS motherboard, profile view
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Nice looking motherboards.
Nice looking motherboards. Asus’s engineers certainly know how to dress up their products.
Those are some nice looking
Those are some nice looking motherboards, if I was in the market for one of those boards, I would be eyeing the Z97 Deluxe motherboard. My Z87 Deluxe works like a champ.