Asus has today released the Asus P5E64 WS Professional workstation motherboard. The P5E64 WS Professional is able to support 4 PCIe x16 slots; which allows users to display a maximum of 8 monitor displays.

With support for such screen space, users can increase their work efficiency by eliminating the time used while alt-tabbing between programs by easily working on up to 8 different applications in full screen mode at once.

The P5E64 WS Professional also features the G.P. Diagnosis card. This card helps provide quick system checks, and displays errors on the LED display. Connecting on the TPM header, the G.P. Diagnosis card also provides convenience with the onboard reset and power buttons.



The motherboard is also fully compatible with the ASUS SASsaby Card. Utilizing the SAS technology for safer data transfers for storage I/O interfaces than previous SATA interfaces. The SASsaby Card is also fully backwards compatible with SATA interfaces.

The P5E64 WS Professional also supports duo PCIe 2.0 x16 slot for double the bus bandwidth from 2.5 Gb/s to 5.0 Gb/s ? allowing tasks to be accomplished in a much shorter time.

Specifications

CPU: Socket775 for Intel Core2 / Pentium D / Pentium 4
Chipset: Intel X38 + Intel ICH9R
System Bus: 1600/1333/1066/800MHz

Memory:
4 x DIMM, max. 8GB, DDR3 1800(O.C.)/1600(O.C.)/1333/1066/800, un-buffered memory, dual channel architecture

Expansion Slots:
- 4 x PCIe x 16 (@ x16, x16, x4, x4) (Dual PCIe 2.0 x 16)
- 1 x PCIe x 4
- 2 x PCI 2.2

Storage:
- Intel ICH9R controller: 6 x SATA 150/300 (RAID 0,1,10,5)
- Ext SATA controller: 2 x eSATA 150/300, 2 x SATA 150/300, 1 x ATA

Audio: ADI 1988B, 8 channels HD Azalia Audio codecs
LAN: Marvell 88E8001/88E8056 Dual Gb LAN (Teaming)
USB 2.0: 12 x USB2.0 ports
IEEE 1394: IEEE 1394a connectors (1 x internal, 1 x external)