ASUS showed off P6T6 WS Revolution with 6 PCIe X16 slot
P6T6 WS Revolution,six PCIe!
ASUS held a small conference in Taipei yesterday. During the conference ASUS showed off some work station and ROG model X58 mobo.
The P6T WS PRO is featured with two PCIe X16, two PCI-X and on board SAS(Serial Attached SCSI) HD support. P6T6 WS Revolution doesn’t have any PCI or PCIe x1，instead, it has 6 PCIe X16 slot, enough for CorssfireX，not to mention the 3 Way SLI.
But P6T6 WS Revolution may not enter retail market, according to ASUS rep. But things are not set yet, so let’s hope for it.
P6T WS PRO with two PCI-X support and On board SAS.
P6T Deluxe/OC Palm, supports OC Palm panel.
The OC Palm supports voltage/fan speed/temperature control & monitoring, what’s more, we can use Yahoo Widget on it.
Rampage II Extreme
October 7th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
Wow that is overkill for 6 PCIe X16 slots! Might be a great idea for a person who blew his or her money on the board and could only afford a cheap graphics card, and then over the months, buy one graphics card after the other… potentially filling up all 6 slots with cheap gfx cards, awesome performance perhaps. Ha.
October 8th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
I couldn’t agree more, 6 PCIe X16 slots is overkill big time. Crossfire and SLI have trouble scaling from 2 to 4 gpus, let’s not invite them to move up 6 gpus(or 12…) already, yikes. I could see the usage for other devices that are limited per PCIe-1X though, such as storage. Can’t wait to see the price on that motherboard(USD$400+ I bet) and how bad it’s going to crash all the time hahaha.
October 8th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
just think about the crunching power of 6 280 gtx’s
October 9th, 2008 at 12:01 am
that’ll be “Way To Fast” (WTF for short). i just hope that if they can’t fit GPUs in a single die they would try to develop it like a multi-chip module (MCM) so we can see a single card that has 4 GPUs in it then have SLi it or CFX it. just my opinion though, these will cost high as f#%&.
October 9th, 2008 at 12:11 am
way too fast, definitely.
pricey, yup.
for a workstation, wtf?
i hope ati continuously make new single cards that is faster than the previous crossfired ####x2 like with the 4870 (it came out marketed being faster than two 3870×2 crossfired). and i hope nvidia will do the same rather than make new single slot cards that is basically the same as the previously 3-way SLI’d cards (only this time it’s in a single card).
October 9th, 2008 at 12:37 am
i’m not talking sli or cf, im talking CUDA and such. in fact i wonder why those people that put 4 GX2 in one rig haven’t tought about this yet
October 10th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Useless having 6 PCIE 2.0 X16 slots when the chipset only supports 32 lanes. At least some of the slots would be limited to X4 bandwidth.
October 15th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
It’s a server board… there’s TONS of server hardware that would fully utilize those slots. There isn’t any such thing as 6 way SLI yet. The highest they’ve gotten to is 4 way, and that’s with 2 Dual GPU cards… there’s no reason to go beyond that, because every year or so, both ATI, and AMD design a chip that will beat that sort of setup alone.
Think outside of the gaming world… it’s not the only reason people use computers. This just shows that Asus is trying to branch out even more than they already have, into the high end server market.
October 16th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
“There isn’t any such thing as 6 way SLI yet.”
thanks for the info mate
December 9th, 2008 at 6:27 am
Hi,
We decided for the P6T Pro, recieved it, seams good, but…no processor yet!
I’m afraid we have to wait, as well as for the GeForce FX5800
We just recieved the latest Eizo CG242 W
That’s why we want the FX5800, because they both have a DisplayPort
I’m wondering…8
Regards,
oaralou