ASUS’s Extreme Workstation Motherboard

Well at least it has pretty colors! Seriously though, I was interested to see what kind of performer the “Extreme Workstation” really was. Needless to say, the results were not all that shocking….

Like mixing business with pleasure? With ASUS’s “Extreme Workstation Engine,” you can bring home the bacon and blast it to shreds from the comfort of your home office. If you’ve been hankering for more capacious high performance storage, the Intel 975X/ICH7R-based P5WDG2-WS opens up a number of possibilities typically limited to server-class motherboards. With a pair of PCI-E, PCI-X, and PCI expansion slots, you get support for enterprise-level storage technologies like hardware RAID, Fibre Channel, Infiniband, and iSCSI without paying enterprise-level prices (at least for the motherboard). Looking to build a single system that does triple duty as a quiet workstation, high-capacity server, and overclocked gaming rig…. Source: ExtremeTech

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