Asus P5W64 WS Professional

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, August 29, 2006, 04:00 PM EDT

It looks like Asus is just about ready to launch one of the most advanced motherboards to ever grace their product line-up, the P5W64 WS Professional. As you can see, the P5W64 WS Professional is outfitted with four PCI Express x16 slots (with varying electrical connections). Here's what Asus has to say about this motherboard...

P5W64 WS Professional

The board shows the ASUS innovation of 4 PCI-E x 16 slots (@ x8, x8, x4, x8, or @ x16, x0, x4, x0).

1. For finance usage, this board supports 4 graphics cards and support up to 8 displays.

2. For power users, this board can support dual graphics, SCSI RAID card and a high speed LAN card while there are still 2 PCI slots available.

3. For other end users, they can use the 4 PCI-E and 2 PCI slots with great flexibility, and enjoy the reliable performance and superior I/O expandability of a workstation level board.

The P5W64 WS Professional is absolutely a smart choice for personal workstation builders, SOHOs, professionals, small and medium business, enterprise workstation usage, system integrators, value added resellers, and banking, financial, CAD/CAM multi-display usage.

P5W64 WS Professional spec summary

Support Intel Core 2 Extreme / Core 2 Duo
Intel 975X ICH7R
Dual Channel DDR2 800
Quad PCI-E graphics
Dual Gb LAN

We hope to have a P5W64 WS Professional in the lab shortly, and will post a full review as soon as possible.

Tags: Asus, professional, pro, WS

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com