Asus Z9PE-D8 WS Dual Socket Workstation Motherboard Review
Chris Hadley / 12 years ago
As we mentioned back in the introduction, this is the first board of this nature that we have tested and as a result of this we have had to change our testing methodology to test the board in such a way that would represent its use in the real world. This involved finding an array of suitable benchmarking solutions that would be able to push both of the processors to the limit and give us a set of results that we will be able to use in future reviews for comparison.
Test system:
- Asus Z9PE-D8 WS
- 2x Intel Xeon E5-2670
- 2x Kingston HyperX 2133MHz 16Gb
- Gigabyte GTX 580 SOC
- 2x Corsair H80
- Corsair HX1050
- Kingston HyperX 240Gb SSD
- Patriot Wildfire 120Gb SSD
- Lian Li T60
- 3 x AOC E2795VH
We would like to thank AOC, Asus, Corsair, Kingston and Lian Li for supplying us with our test system components.
Comparison used:
- EIST enabled (Default BIOS setting), EIST disabled and BLCK raised to 103Mhz
Many different software applications are also used to gain the broadest spectrum of results, which allows for the fairest testing possible.
Software used:
- WinRAR
- AIDA64
- ATTO
- Cinebench R11.5
- CPU-Z
- Handbrake
- Blender
- wPrime
- Euler3D
- HWMonitor
