This time we hold the dual socket LGA2011 motherboard from Asus in our hands. The Z9PE-D8 WS, which has been designed to target two markets at the same time. Indeed Asus provided this motherboard with enough features to satisfy both enthusiasts user and professional users (workstations/servers). Did they succed in making such a motherboard? Lets find out in this review where we also Overclocked the two Xeon E5 2690.

On the following pages we're going to introduce you to the latest dual socket motherboard from ASUS that supports Intel's fastests octacore Xeon E5-2600 series from Intel.

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 9 - Synthetic - Memory & Cache Bandwidth/Latency
Page 2 - Specifications / Delivery	Page 10 - Synthetic - Cryptography & Arithmetic
Page 3 - Layout	Page 11 - Synthetic - Multi-Media & Mutli-Core Efficiency
Page 4 - Connectors and I/O	Page 12 - Real World - Office Productivity & Data Analysis
Page 5 - BIOS	Page 13 - Real World - System Management
Page 6 - Test setup & Overclocking Settings	Page 14 - Real World - Media Creation & 3D Modeling
Page 7 - Synthetic - WPrime1024 & UCBench 2011	Page 15 - Conclusion
Page 8 - Synthetic - CineBench

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