Asus P5W64-WS pro CPU board.

[Elias Castro]

The call of most computing partizans or workstation pros has ever been"more abaility, more bandwidth and more characteristics,please". The coming of serial PCI Express-based computercomputer architecture was the basis of an changing engineering thatsupplied a much required result to the bottleneck troubles relatedwith the aging PCI bus architecture.

Unluckily, although NVIDIA heard the call and responded with their nForce 4 SLIX16 and nForce 590 chipsets lately, Intel hasn't yet considered fitto elaborate outside the more determined PCI Express propertyselections in their 965 and 975X chipsets.Asus lately saw this holein Intel's chipset line-up and in typical fashion were the 1st toblaze a trail with a extending-edge PCI Express CPU Board execution. It's no wonder we measure so many novel Asus productions here atHardware.





The company is frequently the 1st to market with something novel andconcerning for the ability user. Today, we'll be accepting you bythe salient characteristics and functioning profile of the novel AsusP5W64 WS pro CPU Board.This production targets the workstation proand enthusiast sections by extending 4 X16 PCI Express slots by theexecution of a twenty-four-lane PCI Express Switch along with theIntel 975X chipset.Versus the 40+ flexible lane shapes of NVIDIA'snForce line-up, Intel's meager twenty-two lane weaponed 975X chipsetexpects a bit spartan.

Notmessage to decide for these inherent limitations, Asus assumed the975X chipset from Intel to the following stage with their P5W64 WSpro CPU Board.A immediate scan of the specs above demonstrates thisboard as a totally boasted 975X extending with double Gig-E,incorporated eight channel sound, Asus proprietary "Stack Cool"thermal management PCB pattern, as well as lots of the otherincorporated engineerings related with most higher end CPU boardthese days.