Asus showed at CES, no Series 7 motherboards for Ivy Bridge processors, but kept it at the signs for processors that are already on the market. Was it a workstation motherboard for two Sandy Bridge EP processors.
The dualsocket workstation motherboard is suitable for Intel’s latest Xeons from the Sandy Bridge EP-series. The board is reminiscent of the SR-2 board from EVGA that was suitable for 1366 processors. In addition to the two cpus support the Z9PE-D8 up to 128GB of ddr3 memory in its slots and has seven pci-express x16 slots. Three of these are electrically as x8 slots performed. Further, fourteen sata ports and four usb 3.0 ports. Prices and availability of the extended board are not yet known, but it left Asus a system with two quad-core-Xeons, good for sixteen threads, rotate.
In addition to the extra large workstation motherboard showed Asus also matx-board with the X79-chipset on board: the Rampage IV Gene the RoG-series. Due to the limited space are four memory slots, but counts the board with three x16 slots for video cards and a x4 slot. There are six sata ports available, as is a header for two usb 3.0 ports and two usb 3.0 ports on the i/o shield. There are also eight regular usb ports, a gigabitnetwerkpoort, audio connectors and an esata port. The Gene board is equipped with a SupremeFX III sound chip and Intel netwerkchip.
Asus works finally to RoG Exchange, which uefi settings can be shared with other RoG owners. Using a Windows application, the settings of another, with which for example a high overclock was achieved, automatically be loaded.