ASUS P9d WS, Intel C226 mainboard - LGA 1150 [90SB03E0-M0EAY5]

The black and yellow board comes with four DIMM slots for DDR3 memory in the fast dual-channel mode. The onboard sound chip can be used both on the six analog jacks or via the optical Toslink digital (S / PDIF).

The connectivity falls extensively from the ATX board provides a total of (partly external, partly internal) four USB 3.0 ports available and manages hard drives and SSDs over six SATA 6G ports (incl. RAID support). Expansion cards come in a PCIe x1 or two PCI slots and for graphics cards, four PCI Express slots - partly in Standard 3.0 - ready (4-way CrossFireX).

To use the integrated graphics unit (iGPU) many Haswell CPUs can be found at the I / O Shield of ASUS P9d WS a DisplayPort, an HDMI and a DVI output, said iGPUs the Core-i processors fourth generation allow video output to three monitors simultaneously.

The ASUS motherboard for server and workstation systems convinced the bargain with the ISV certification (Independent Software Vendor), a particularly wide memory compatibility and the feature "ASUS Dr. Power", which monitors the state of the power supply, the sudden failures to prevent. In addition, it is designed for 24-hour continuous operation.

Technical details:
    Format: ATX
    Color: Black, Yellow
    Chipset: Intel C226
    Socket 1150 (Intel Xeon E3-1200 / 12x5 v3 and Core i CPUs 4th generation "Haswell")
    RAM: 4x DDR3
    Dual-Channel
    Slots (physically):
    3x PCIe (3.0) x16
    Compatible Multi-VGA configurations: 4-Way CrossFireX
    1x PCIe x16 (x4)
    1x PCIe x1
    2x PCI
    Internal connections:
    6x SATA 6G
    2x USB 3.0 (1x header)
    4x USB 2.0 (2x header)
    1x MemOK! Switch
    1x IEEE 1394a connector
    1x S / PDIF output
    1x TPM
    1x LPT1
    1x COM
    Power / Reset / LED / Front-Audio
    5x fan
    External connections:
    1x PS / 2 mouse / keyboard
    2x USB 3.0
    4x USB 2.0
    2x Gigabit LAN
    1x S / PDIF (optical)
    6x audio (7.1, ALC892)
    1x DisplayPort
    1x HDMI
    1x DVI
    Power supply:
    1x 24-pin ATX
    1x 8-pin EPS