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Asus Z9PE-D8 WS Dual Socket Workstation Motherboard Review

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

We did have a number of other applications that we could have run on this system, but during preliminary testing we found that they were not able to fully utilise both processors in the system or were unable to utilise all of the available cores / threads on the Xeon chips. As time progresses we endeavour to find a broader spectrum of tests that can show the board in use in different situations like we do with our standard motherboard tests.

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