ASUS company officialy start sales of its newest high-end motherboard based on Intel X79 chipset, P9X79-E WS. Â Among the special features there are eight DIMM slots for memory modules DDR3-2400 (the maximum supported size of memory is 64 GB), seven slots PCI-Express x16 (valid SLI and CrossFireX configurations), two slots PCI-Express x1, and support LGA 2011 processors Sandy Bridge-E.
The motherboard has a form factor CEB, 8 +2 +2 +2 phase power system, overclocking and power processors TurboVProcessing Unit (TPU) and "Energy Processing Unit (EPU). Â There are six Serial ATA 3.0 ports and four - Serial ATA II, dual-port Gigabit Ethernet adapter, an 8-channel audio codec Realtek ALC1150
There are 10 ports USB 2.0 Â and two - USB 3.0, jack PS / 2, dual interface eSATA, output S / PDIF, and a set of 3.5-mm audio jacks.
The model is estimated at $ 500 in the U.S. market and ˆ 340 in Europe.