Asus z270

The main manufacturers of motherboards want to diversify their offer to reach more users, Asus has announced the new Asus Z270-WS motherboard with features that guide it to use in workstations, also known as Workstation.

Asus Z270-WS features

This type of motherboards seek to offer the possibility of mounting a very capable Workstation and with a price considerably lower than the necessary in case of opting for an X99 solution or even a Xeon processor. The Asus Z270-WS comes in an ATX format and stands out for its need for two 8-pin EPS cables plus a third 6-pin PCI-Express cable for power. The CPU is powered by powerful 12-phase VRM making it a board with great potential for overclocking. Includes four PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slots for graphics cards in SLI or CrossFire 4-way mode.

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We continue to see the specifications of the Asus Z270-WS and we find two M.2 228o slots and two U.2 slots for high-performance SSD drives, we continue with six SATA III 6 Gb / s ports, several headers for USB 3.1 ports, Thunderbolt 3 connector, eight-channel Realtek ALC S1220A audio and of course compatibility with Intel Optane.

We look at its rear I / O panel and see that it is very well served with four USB 3.0 ports, four USB 2.0 ports, two USB 3.1 ports type A and type C, optical audio, two Ethernet ports and video outputs in the form of HDMI and DisplayPort.

Source: guru3d