CES 2012: ASUS Demos Motherboard for Xeon “Sandy Bridge-EP” CPUs

Author: Gabriel Torres Date: January 16, 2012 - 11:54 AM PST Category: Motherboard More Info: http://usa.asus.com/ Real-time pricing for ASUS P8B WS ASUS LGA1155 DDR3 1333 Intel C206 Quad CrossFireX SATA3 USB3.0 ATX Workstation Motherboard P8B WS Asus Diamond-6491577 Electronics Used and N Amazon: $229.00 Newegg: $229.99 Buy.com: $222.99 Wal-Mart: $228.98 ASUS was the only major motherboard manufacturer to not display motherboards based on the forthcoming Z77 and H77 chipsets from Intel. According to the company, the reason was that they don’t want other manufacturers copying them. Instead, they demonstrated a dual-socket motherboard for the future Xeon “Sandy Bridge-EP” processors, which will be based on the LGA2011 socket. They were demonstrating the eight-core/16-thread model, which we assume to be the unreleased Xeon E5-2600. You can see the pictures of this motherboard below. It will be called Z9PE-DBWS and will have two Gigabit Ethernet ports, four USB 3.0 ports, 14 SATA ports (the manufacturer didn’t say how many of them are SATA-600), seven PCI Express x16 slots, and eight memory sockets (four for each CPU). It will reach the market as soon as these new CPUs arrive on the market, and will be priced at around USD 500. click to enlarge click to enlarge click to enlarge Print Version | Send to Friend | Bookmark Article | Comments (0)

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