Asus Z97-WS release date

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Do you have any information on the release date of this motherboard ?

my build is on hold till I can get hold of this motherboard.
 
I havnt got it together yet but looking at the specs you should have no issues. I have used hundreds of the Z87 and X79-WS motherboards and they are fantastic. They are a fair bit more expensive than the standard boards but are very reliable even with overclock. Maybe slightly down on features from the ROG boards but great none the less.

Oh and BTW the warranty on the ASUS WS motherboards is a lot better than the consumer grade boards. They do an ARS(Yes I know, but it stands for Advance Replacement Service or something like that) and generally you will get an advanced replacement on the faulty board within a couple of days.

On Speaking to ASUS recently they are doing a lot of work in sorting out the bad rep that they have on consumer board warranty and RMAs.

BTW What drives are you going to be running on that RAID Controller. If its 8 x decent SSDs then you will reach the cards/pcie saturation point very easily but that is if you are running RAID0.
 
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Using it for blu-ray storage and gaming so just normal hard drives wd red 4tb and one ssd.

wanted to make sure I have a motherboard that works first time with the raid card.
 
The only problem I have had with RAID cards is that on consumer motherboards (Even the WS falls into this category in this case) The oprom of the RAID card loads into upper memory when the machine posts. Quite often on a consumer motherboard there will not be enough memory available and it will not show or you will not be able to enter the oprom for the card but it would be available in windows. That has probably changed recently with UEFI. I haven't really utilised many RAID cards in these systems for a while as its mainly server systems for that. I would say that there are plenty of SATA ports on the motherboard and it does support RAID 0,1,5,10 so should suit your needs without the dedicated RAID Controller. :)
 
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