Intel completed the launching of P67 chipset for use in LGA1155 socket motherboards. With this ASUS was in a position to do expansion of its product range with release of P8P67 WS Revolution, which has target market of workstations suggested by the suffix WS. There is great enthusiasm associated with its release.
ASUS has the status one among the largest motherboard manufacturing organizations in the universe. Its product range is huge in mother board segment alone, as a result of which the new product versions are named with their respective suffixes in addition to the model numbers, to bring more clarity to the user.
Considering the examples of “WS Professional” and “WS Revolution’ motherboards WS gives indication of Model number of board working as Work Station, whereas professionals are contemporary work station. The WS Revolution board is a complete with full features of free designing, which is a great product; can be appropriately deployed in business workstations, graphics workstations, and for use in gaming machines alike.
The ASUS P8P67 WS Revolution has been by using absolutely new P67 Express chipset, which is different from P55 chipset and does not have the south bridge. Keeping pace with the recent Intel’s chipsets the stress has been in simplifications, because the engineers presently devise products performing its functions off the chipset by providing North Bridge and to the CPU. In this chipset the PCI controller, memory controller, and the graphics presently have integration in the P67 Express chipset. Thus there are improvements in comparison to P55 in respect of P67 supporting SATA 6G AND 32 GB RAM. There are no very much changes in the functions. USB 3.00 support to the chipset is not there.
The entire range of P67 Express chipsets are based boards designed by ASUS, thus switching to digital VRM’s and good by to the analog.
The P8P67 WS Revolution has support of nForce 200 MCP. The board does not have PCI slots instead there are 7 PCI Express slots i.e. 4 X 16 slots and 3 X 1 slot. The board has also enriched features having the support of USB 3.0, SATA 6G, 3 way SLL, Cross FireX, support for Tesla Cards and many more features.