The best Conroe Work Station Motherboard ASUS P5W64 WS Pro

[blossa]

Any ideas how this will work with two 7950GX2?

[PreacherMan]

PCI-E RAID cards... 8 monitor support with 4 graphics cards....usual workstation stuff.

No... 16 monitors with four quad monitor adapters.

[smids]

No... 16 monitors with four quad monitor adapters.

Ok, I have shown I'm actually a consumer looking at this board - I completely forgot about quad monitor cards.

[krille]

Did I understand this correctly, currently the Asus P5WDG2-WS PRO is the best Conroe mobo out, and this P5W64 WS Pro will be even better?

If this is correct... what is the ETA on the W64? Is it worth the wait? (My E6600 won't ship until mid september at the earliest.)

Thanks

~ Kris

edit: Nevermind, I don't think I want a workstation (PCI-X) mobo anyway... Sorry.

[Drow]

Is this the better board for overclocking a E6600 as the P5WDG2-WS PRO?

[blossa]

Is this the better board for overclocking a E6600 as the P5WDG2-WS PRO?

I have not looked into theese boards that much yet but to me the seem to have many features in common. So my guess is that they are pretty much the same regarding OC cpu.
The thing I am wondering the most about is the different of theese cards handeling two 7950GX2. I mean, the W64 has more fysical PCI-e slots but when using 7950GX2s atlest one of the slots is being covered. So maybe there is no point of getting the W64 when having 7950GX2?

[stevecs]

Not w/ 7950GX2's but it looks like you can put in four 7900GTX's or even perhaps four G80 single slot cards which would be faster than the 7950GX2's, assuming that quad SLI will work with it. But this is only if you plan on using this as a graphics workstation. The board also looks to have a lot of potential for raid as well pci-e is MUCH faster than pci-x, and for raid cards you can create some pretty cool arrays here. Heck, even if the slots are only 8x pci-e, that's more than enough even for a 10GbE network card per slot.

Only wish they used SAS controllers on the mainboard opposed to SATA that way we could plug in either SAS drives and/or SATA drives at will instead of just SATA drives.

This is the board that's got all my attention.

[Drow]

Does this board have 4 16x-PCI-E-Lanes? Or?

[stevecs]

Does this board have 4 16x-PCI-E-Lanes? Or?

Nothing official yet that we can see. There's a lot of speculation on that subject. From the name of the board P5W64 WS it _appears_ that it will have 64 lanes. I think everyone here is hoping that it's 16lanesx4 but we'll see as soon as we get an official update from asus.

[linflas]

well if you look at the manual on their site it is 8x8x8x4 when using all 4, 8x8 when using two, so the 64 in the name is wishful thinking

[stevecs]

well if you look at the manual on their site it is 8x8x8x4 when using all 4, 8x8 when using two, so the 64 in the name is wishful thinking

You have the link for the manual? I'm just seeing the BIOS link. I want to check that myself as there is not even 1 16x that you're saying? That just doesn't make much sense.

[AndreYang]

If you use one PCIE, it's 16X. Two PCIE are 8X+8X.

4 PCIE

First slot 8X
Second slot 8X
Third slot 4X
fourth 8X

[stevecs]

If you use one PCIE, it's 16X. Two PCIE are 8X+8X.

4 PCIE

First slot 8X
Second slot 8X
Third slot 4X
fourth 8X

Not as good as my hopes, but at least that makes more sense. I don't get the the 4x there (are the other 4 channels being used by the onboard nics or something?) But even w/ 4x that's enough to power a 10GbE card.

Still, it's got more PCIe channels across more slots than any other that I've seen which is a plus.

[apfubar]

Any ideas how this will work with two 7950GX2?

NVidia, much to my dismay have disabled the quad in anything which is not SLI. Thus the WS Pro doesn't work. It causes a nice stop error though when the 4th graphics driver installs, and tries to start.

AP.

[alpha0ne]

A much better board design , does the Vmch go to 1.85 ???

[smids]

http://www.pcutstyr.no/main.php3?PI=...9756X662496530

Norweigan etailer showing an ETA of 18th Sep 2006 - but a whacking great big price. Check out the XE.com conversion for your own currency!!!

[camouflage]

What is max. Vdimm??? I saw it limited at 2,4 volt on the P5WDG2-WS.

[catscit]

Any ideas how this will work with two 7950GX2?

Hi blossa, you here!

I'm looking at the p6w64 as well, the p5w dh has crappy sata with only 4 decent ports and i need 6!

[linflas]

just so you know the marvel interface for the sata controller for the 3 internal and one external sata ports ain't that great, I had three drives hooked up to it in normal sata mode (no raid) and when I attempted to write to one, extract to another and defrag the third I got pauses in event viewer that effect windows to the point of being unusable, I looked for an updated driver but was unsuccessful

Th intel one is great, I bought 2 cheap ide to sata adapters for my DVD-RW drives, a lite-on and a plextor, and they work great on the intel sata ports, the marvel will not recognize the drives at all.

V-DIMM Max 2.4V
V-MCH Max 1.8V

[Torphoto]

well if you look at the manual on their site it is 8x8x8x4 when using all 4, 8x8 when using two, so the 64 in the name is wishful thinking

Manual? what manual?

ON a serious note is the p5w64 actually on sale in Japan and Taiwan now and is the bios multi lingual?

[M.Beier]

Mm, lookin good! Not a bad FSB either.

Quad X1900GT anyone? (XT/X wouldn't fit )

hehe in case this board can handle it, sure wouldnt be a problem getting 4x x1950XTX into it.. - Just a matter of using some working tools too cut some of the metal off..

[camouflage]

Took a second look at the pics now - You are able to change the MULTI on this board?

Is that true?

[AndreYang]

Took a second look at the pics now - You are able to change the MULTI on this board?

Is that true?

X6800 can change multi , others cannot change multi on the board.

[camouflage]

X6800 can change multi , others cannot change multi on the board.

Oh thank You - I got somethig wrong I think...........

So if I get an E6600 with Multi 9 and let's imagine it does 3800MHz on water = 3800:9 = ~FSB 423.

So in this case I won't need FSB 478 - then P5WDG2-WS Professional should be best buy for me.

What do You think ???

[AndreYang]

Oh thank You - I got somethig wrong I think...........

Some ASUS mobos can open multi for user, but WS Pro and P5W64 didin't open multi yet.