ASUS unveils their Z270-WS Workstation motherboard

[WYP]

ASUS has unveiled their new Z270-WS Workstation motherboard, which uses a bridge chip to support additional PCIe 3.0 lanes and offer greater support for multi-GPU systems.




Read more on ASUS' Z270-WS motherboard.

 

[Doomslayer]

Finally it looks like another motherboard which doesn't have RGB LED's

 

[Dicehunter]

Looks great although IMO the only thing missing is a nice clean looking IO cover to make it appear more clean.

 

[Thelosouvlakia]

Please ASUS make one of these boards for the AMD platform... that's beautiful <3

 

[Bartacus]

Don't the professional types usually stick to the HEDT stuff though? I'm assuming there's a market for this, since Asus isn't stupid and they actually made the thing, but I thought the serious workstation guys went for Xeons / quad channel ram / etc?

 

[Dicehunter]

Don't the professional types usually stick to the HEDT stuff though? I'm assuming there's a market for this, since Asus isn't stupid and they actually made the thing, but I thought the serious workstation guys went for Xeons / quad channel ram / etc?

You can still get xeons on the "Z" platform albeit max of 4 cores and quad channel memory from my own testing has very very little performance benefit over dual channel .

 

[Bartacus]

You can still get xeons on the "Z" platform albeit max of 4 cores and quad channel memory from my own testing has very very little performance benefit over dual channel .

I shouldn't have said HEDT, my bad. I was thinking dual xeon workstation, Intel Cxxx chipset. This just seems like a curious market segment to fill with a desktop chipset that has a 'workstation' tag. I can't see anyone doing serious 3d rendering on this chipset.

 

[NeverBackDown]

It's more for reliability and toughness than workstation at this chipset. I mean besides it's look, it is extremely similar to ROG.

 

[TroyR]

This is all good news and all but when can I get it...?!