In addition to the enthusiastic ROG player country, the ASUS WS workstation series motherboard has always been a benchmark, regardless of workmanship, performance or stability, expansion capabilities, are among the best. Recently, Asus has released a new WS Z390 Pro, which can be used with the 8th and 9th generation Core. The biggest feature is the support of full speed dual PCI-E 3.0 x16.
Today's high-end motherboards typically have multiple PCI-E 3.0 x16 expansion slots, but are limited by the number of PCI-E channels in the processor, and only support x8/x8 in parallel.
ASUS is equipped with four PCI-E 3.0 x16 slots and a PCI-E 3.0 x48 bridge chip that supports single x16, dual x16/x16 (first and third), three-way X8/x8/x16, quad x8/x8/x8/x8, plus a PCI-E x4 slot supported by the chipset.
Other configurations, ATX standard board type, 10-phase power supply, 24-pin main power supply interface and 8+8+6-pin auxiliary power supply interface, but the heat sink is not very exaggerated. Four DDR4 memory slots with a maximum frequency of 4266MHz and a maximum capacity of 64GB. Six SATA 6Gbps, two M.2-22110 32Gbps (both cover heat sinks), two U.2 32Gbps.
Intel I210-AT, I219-LM dual Gigabit LAN. Realtek ALC S1220A eight-channel sound card, signal-to-noise ratio 120dBA, support DTS, with electromagnetic shielding and audio capacitors.
The USB interface is also very rich, including six native USB 3.1 Gen.2 (back), six USB 2.0 (back), two USB 2.0 (pin) supported by Z390 chipset, and two USB 3.1 supported by Xiangshuo. Gen.2 (one of the back is Type-C), two USB 3.1 Gen.1 (back), and a lightning interface pin.
The back also provides HDMI, DisplayPort output interface.
The price is definitely high, and the foreign media is estimated to be around $350, but the Z270-WS still has four or five thousand yuan in China.
