ASUS Z10PE-D8 WS

ASUS Z10PE-D8 WS Dual-Socket Haswell Xeon V3 Motherboard


Supposedly has very limited over-clocking options for dual xeons - we shall see.

Found a review
http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/6866/asus-z10pe-d8-ws-dual-cpu-intel-c612-workstation-motherboard-review/index.html
Scores 99% in every area, not sure I'd give it that high but it is the best motherboard I have ever used - in combination with the chips that is. I think the reviewer is a bit excited

Subbed. Good luck with the oc.

Very interested in this board, wonder if OcUK will be getting any can only find it in one place atm.

OCUK did say they hope to be getting some, when... They do not know. Most retailers appear to keep getting the stock pushed back a few weeks.
Gibbo did also mention that he is awaiting a board from asus to do some testing too.

My CPU's have been delayed.. >< So nothing to report yet.

I cant see it being more than 1-3mhz on the BLK as its not the boards that are limiting the Overclocks but the CPU.

I am still waiting for this board as well for some dev work but Asus have been pretty terrible as of late.

I see Asus only have two memory sticks in their QVL on the board webpage. But I read a review on the Crucial 8GB Server sticks and sure they'd work on this board?

http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/ram/76257-crucial-32gb-ddr4-2133-memory/

Well I just found one in the UK and bought it

I hope your having better luck than me. - Couriers have *misplaced* my cpus
All is insured, however it takes damn ages to sort. - can't see me up and running for a good few weeks at the earliest.


That ram is supposed to work from info I have gathered. 8gb chips are too small - need at least the 16gb dimms surely.

Apparently this board has an issue with combining PCI-E lanes from both CPUs and you can only use a max of 40 from a single CPU? Guess it's not that much of an issue. I considered the board as dual CPU systems are great for rendering but it's pretty pricey with the new Xeons, especially the WS versions. They consume a fair bit of juice too.

Yep 145w per cpu. And yes to get all the 80 lanes you do need 2 cpus.

It's not a wise path for gaming.

So will regular DDR4 work ? Slightly confused

I just downloaded manual and it states...

DDR4 2133/1866/1600/1333 RDIMM / LR-DIMM / NVDIMM

There are a lot of boards out there that have a dramatically reduced functionality if both the CPU sockets are not populated. For instance a lot of the Supermicro boards that are available certain PCIe slots do not work unless both of the CPUs are installed. I am not sure if that's the case in this instance but worth a good check in the BIOS.

Colinmcr, as far as I am aware this board requires DDR4 Reg memory hence the RDIMM/LR-DIMM (Not seen any NVDIMM)

I gave up and went to the couriers depo and spent the day arguing... Took 6 hrs.
Persistence pays - I got my processors . I am however mentally and physically exhausted. - That kinda nonsense is really draining...

I had to drill a few extra stand off holes for the motherboard - as 3 of the cases existing mounts were not aligned for ssi-eeb boards. Coolers and ram went on ok. I want'd some Noctua NH-D15 's however it looks like all the big coolers either block a ram slot or touch/obscure the first pci slot.- also the weight of 2 of them maybe a issue.. Cable management will have to wait for another day.

The system is now booting up - after a scary couple of hours of trying to decipher error codes and strange beeps. I flashed to the latest bios - thankfully which you can do with the system turned off. It lives !


The bios is pretty comprehensive, lots of new terms and options which I have no idea what they do nor can find any explanation, not sure I'm brave enough to fiddle with them yet.

Overclocking options - are limited, as we know xeons are multiplier locked.
However there are options for manual/auto, AI tune, memory oc'ing various power states etc.

Post times are not fast - I guess the 100 and 1 things that the board has/does, not unusual for a workstation/server board either.

I'll get some screenshots, and maybe a photo or 2 up tomorrow, hopefully a benchmark or 2.

Ah looking forward to seeing some pics, good luck getting it working smoothly.

So my company has messed up, they were supposed to send me on a course in Germany which has now been moved to Ft Lauderdale USA

Wonder if I can pick up Xeon's V3's there much cheaper than buying in the UK ? Any advice...

Go to Frys Electronics they always used to be great on price on Intel Stuff. Unfortunately Newegg wouldn't deliver to a temporary address or hotel last time I asked.

colinmcr said:

Very interested in this board, wonder if OcUK will be getting any can only find it in one place atm.

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yes...yes we will...they are on the way so we should have them in a little over a week.

ScottiB said:

yes...yes we will...they are on the way so we should have them in a little over a week.

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Ah man I already bought the only one I could find in stock elsewhere..sorry.

Traitor!

- Me also sorry.

I did call a few times over the last month.. - You guys didn't know when you'd be getting them. - Maybe try to get some good deals on ram, - OCUK currently have the worst selection of all the etailers


I ran a quick bench, with no chip set or any drivers installed, - default everything in bios.

I'll see how I get on improving that. I recon 40k+ is achievable.

Messy Messy..