Special Features; Product Highlights - Asus P8C WS User Manual

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Special features

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Product highlights

Green ASUS
This motherboard complies with the European Union's Energy-related Products (ErP)
requirements, which requires products to meet certain energy efficiency criteria for energy
consumption. This in in keeping with ASUS' vision of creating environment-friendly and
energy-efficient products to reduce a product's carbon footprint and reduce its environmental
impact.
LGA1155 socket for Intel
Xeon E3-1200/ 12x5 v2 processors
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This motherboard supports the latest Intel
E3-1200/ 12x5 v2 processors in the LGA1155 package, with memory and PCI Express
controllers to support 2-channel (4 DIMMs) DDR3 memory and 16 PCI Express 3.0 lanes for
great graphics performance.
C216
Intel C216 Express Chipset is a single-chipset that supports the 1155 socket Intel
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generation Core™ i3 and Intel
point-to-point links, which increases bandwidth and enhances the system's performance. It
comes with two SATA 6Gb/s and four SATA 3Gb/s ports for faster data retrieval, doubling the
bandwidth of the current bus systems. It also enables the iGPU function for the latest Intel
integrated graphics performance.
PCI Express
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PCI Express 3.0 (PCIe 3.0) is the latest PCI Express bus standard that provides twice
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the performance and speed of PCIe 2.0. It provides an optimal graphics performance,
unprecedented data speed, and seamless transition with its complete backward compatibility
to PCIe 1.0/2.0 devices.
Dual-Channel DDR3 1600/ 1333 support
This motherboard supports the dual-channel DDR3 architecture that features the data
transfer rates of DDR3 1600/1333 MHz to boost the system's performance, and to meet
the higher bandwidth requirements of the latest 3D graphics, multimedia, and Internet
applications.
Native SATA 6Gb/s Support
With its Intel C216 Chipset, this motherboard natively supports the next generation Seria
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ATA (SATA) storage interface, delivering up to 6.0 Gb/s data transfer rates. It provides
enhanced scalability, faster data retrieval, and twice the bandwidth of current bus systems.
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Second/Third Generation Core™ i3 and
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Xeon E3-1200 v2 server processors. It utilizes the serial
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3rd/2nd generation Core™ i3 and Xeon
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