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a product that gets me personally extremely excited more so than an Rog
board or a regular motherboard definitely this is the P9
x79 ews so this is an updated version of the
P9 x79 WS WS is for workstation which is
not to say that this board is not going to be a highly capable overclocker or R
able to run a highly capable gaming machine it just means that it goes
beyond that to more like workstation or
even you know light Home Server grade validation and componentry so on the
front you're going to find the usual core i7 extreme and NVIDIA SLI and AMD
cross fireex Badges and all that stuff but whoa hold on a minute what's this
Zeon 5 support yeah you can chuck a Zeon here in ECC memory NVIDIA Tesla support
it's actually validated to run with NVIDIA Tesla compute cards uh that's
something you're not going to find on your typical run-of-the-mill $100
motherboard not only that but check this out guys so there's a little badge right
there you can go have a look at while I open up the box fourway SLI or Crossfire
at a 16x link speed now there is some
you know of course it takes some funny business to make that happen with
respect to you know plx switches or whatever else but if you want four cards
running at 16x then this is pretty much
the only way to go it's got full support
for the latest ivybridge e processors on the LGA 2011 platform it's also got
support for the older LGA 2011
sandybridge ebased processor so anything with that fits in an LGA 2011 socket you
can pretty much put in here and let's go
ahead and spread out all the accessories cuz it comes with absolutely everything
so four-way s Bridge right there nice uh
sexy black four-way s Bridge four or rather three-way s Bridge right there it
also comes with check this out fire wire header and USB 2.0 headers so just in
case you still need fire wire it's like it's got everything IO Shield is right
there then we've got a regular SLI
Bridge wish that was black but I guess you know whatever it's not really targeted directly at Gamers eight SATA
cables so four of them are straight for them are right angle actually sorry two
more SATA cables as well as a Molex to dual SATA adapter haven't seen one of
these included with one of their boards in a while and check this out a Serial
Port Riser so you can go ahead and throw that in one of your extra PCI slots and
a DVD and Q connectors and a quick start
users guide or users guide whatever you want to call it so who is this
motherboard for if it can overclock and
it can game but it's validated with Teslas and all this stuff well well the
answer is pretty much anyone particularly people like me where you're
doing video editing and you have some pretty exotic weird hardware and what
would otherwise be considered a gaming rig so I'm running a graphics card which
happens to be a dual GPU graphics card so sometimes there's compatibility
issues there I am running a high-end RAID controller so it's an LSI 926 8i
with eight ssds on it so I need maximum throughput to my card I need
compatibility which I'm not getting with my current Gigabyte x79 s up5 and I
could I was running a 10 GB network card so that's another thing that might be
kind of a a weird thing internally here we run quadros all that kind of stuff
you might also want to run a high-end sound card it's going to be validated
it's going to actually work so let's go let's move into what they've actually
improved with the ews so they've improved the power delivery it's got
their latest digital power for both the CPU as well as the memory they've also
got a newly updated ufi so of course full support for ivybridge E the Zeon
based CPUs remember those are required for ECC memory support so if you do want
to run ECC RAM which is basically a more stable reliable memory particularly for
high-capacity configurations it has the same overclocking options as you'd find
on any other board but because of the quality of the components it's going to
probably do better than most of the other boards with the exception of probably the x79 deluxe as well as the
Rampage for Black Edition just because those ones are really tuned and tweaked
for iy Bridge e now there's some other updated stuff as well the Dual Intel
Ethernet solution is probably mostly geared towards the pro users but
basically it's two 210 series controllers that offer better throughput
lower CPU utilization as well as some more um you know more prograde
controller options so you it's optimized for things like virtual machines for
example uh let's cover the layout so what you may or may not have noticed
about this board is it's a little bit on the wider side and it has some of the
most complete IO that you will ever see
there's seven full PCI Express slots
there are 10 SATA connectors there is
pretty much everything you could possibly imagine there's a USB port built in to the bottom right hand of the
board this can be used for things like encryption keys that would normally be
just permanently plugged into the system unless you wanted to remove them all
that kind of really cool stuff you've got your eight pin CPU connector in its
ideal location along the top left you've got some of the cooling For That
Advanced vrm over here and then there's actually a heat pipe that connects it to
a secondary set of sort of heat sink fins over here that allows you to
dissipate some additional heat with the incidental air flow that's going to come
from your CPU cooling solution so this is also connected via a heat pipe to
this massive sort of I guess block of
metal down here hard to call it a heat sink which is then connected by heat pipe to this guy right here so cooling
is actually spread out a fair bit on the board you've got eight DDR are three
memory slots so these are going to be running at higher speeds than what you'd
have seen on the older board particularly because ivybridge e CPUs
have a stronger memory controller than Sandy Bridge e CPUs the 24 pin
connectors in its ideal location along the right hand Edge you still got things
like onboard power and reset buttons as well as their M button which allows you
to boot even with sort of weird memory configurations gives you a chance to
actually configure them it has an epu switch over here as well as its USB 3
front panel header in its ideal location along the right hand Edge although I'd like to see a right angle connector if I
could have one you've got two SATA 36 GB
per second and four SATA 2 3 gbit per second connectors running off the Intel
chipset and four SATA 3 6 gbit per second connectors running off of an
updated controller that ASUS has added to this board that has support for their
new SSD caching to which allows you to use an unlimited size SSD to cach your
mechanical volumes remember they do have to all be plugged into the same controller versus Intel's rst technology
that you to a 60 gig SSD onboard post
readout onboard front panel connectors which of course you have I explained the
USB port here before uh front USB 2 just
one header for that front fire wire as
well as there's that serial front panel audio and your TPU switch so that's for
optimizing for performance as opposed to
epu which is more about optimizing for power efficiency now let's get into that
PCI Express configuration so all all the
blue slots are capable of running at full 16x speed even with all of them
populated so if you were running a four-way graphics card configuration you
would plug into all the blue ones this top blue one runs at 16x regardless but
the other blue and black ones will split into 8X 8X mode once you start to
populate them so the black ones only run at 8X the 16 ones run at
16x which is pretty fast now if you were to populate all those cards and you
weren't to plug in any auxiliary power you would actually have a very good
chance of burning out your 24 pin connector over here because they
particularly High draw graphics cards and things like that draw Power not only
from the connectors that are plugged directly into them but also from the slot so you're going to want to plug in
this six pin PCIe connector right here if you've got any more than probably
about two high draw cards plugged into these PCI Express slots that's going to
make sure that you don't burn out your board which is going to be big problem
for you when we move around to the back of the board we find out why there
weren't any USB 2.0 headers because there's 10 usb2 ports on the back a PS2
keyboard mouse combo Port USB bi flashback this is Handy cuz even if you
brick the board in the middle of a flash you can usually restore it optical audio
out those dual Intel gigb Ethernet controllers as well as USB 3 and ah yes
dual eeta 6 gabit per second so that is
fast eeta 7.1 audio out and I mean
realistically what do you use something like this for for me extreme ly high-end
gaming rig with weird Hardware in it maybe you're someone who uses um I don't
know a video capture device in order to run like a really high-end camera for
your game stream or whatever else you might want to do with it um that that is
who I see this being uh aboard for or if you're looking to build something like a
workstation that is going to be running you know fire G cards or quadros or
Teslas or you know quad gigabit Ethernet
NYX or any of those kinds of things that require not only the compatibility that
it's validated for but also the throughput because if you plug some of
these cards into you know slots that might look like 16x slots on regular
consumer boards but are actually running at 8X or 4X or whatever speed they're
running at you might not get the maximum performance that you should be able to
achieve with that card so we're going to be using this board for an upcoming
ultimate build guide that'll be sort of what we'd consider to be the ultimate
video editing rig and I'm extremely excited about that so I think that
pretty much wraps it up thank you for checking out my unboxing of the p9x 79e
deluxe did I say Deluxe because I meant WS it's certainly you know Deluxe enough
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