Asus P6X58-E WS or ASUS P6X58-E PRO

[Bob1967]

Finally there are two Asus motherboards on my shortlist:
ASUS P6X58-E PRO and P6X58-E WS. There are unfortunately no reviews about ASUS P6X58-E PRO. My priorities are reliability and stability of MB.
Could you please give me some advices which model would be better?

 

[keldog7]

Title says it all, so take this for what its worth...
Built a machine about a month ago using the P6X58-E WS motherboard. Looks solid, no real issues identified. Specifically, it correctly allowed the use of a 2.4GHz Xeon 5645 with 12GB of ECC DDR3 clocked at 1333. SSD and 4 other SATA3 HDD all installed without issue.
I opted to overclock it a bit to 3.1GHz, with (good) air cooling, and careful attention to case airflow. Temps have been very acceptable. No flakiness to any parts, no reboots / hangs etc. The overclocked machine was proven Memtest and CPUburn stable.
My one "regret" with this board came after I was tweaking the setup...it *IS* correctly mentioned in the motherboard manual, but I had not read all the fine print. Specifically, the SATA2(x6) and SATA3(x2) ports all support RAID in one form or another. However, with the SATA2 bank - if you want to set them up into a RAID array, its all of them or none of them. In my case, I was originally hoping to put 2 of the "spinners" into a RAID 1 array, and leaving the other 2 drives as solitary scratch disks. Apparently, this is not possible. As a result, with the SSD drive correctly on the SATA3 port (drive supports SATA3), I can't configure my drives as originally planned. There are lots of ways around this, or course, but the relative inflexibility of the configuration (apparently a chipset limitation) caught me a bit off guard.
Otherwise, the board seems to be working great.
Again, says nothing about the PRO...
-A

 

[mb103051]

personally id opt for the pro version as its a later board...any problems with the older boards you would think have been corrected with the newest model out...but in reality you cant go wrong with either board...just my opinion....i just cant get over the processing power and ram through put of these 1366 setups...just amazing....

 

[Copenhagen69]

why are there no reviews on the ASUS P6X58-E PRO?

Does anyone know where I can look at one?

 

[mihai17xxy]

Title says it all, so take this for what its worth...
Built a machine about a month ago using the P6X58-E WS motherboard. Looks solid, no real issues identified. Specifically, it correctly allowed the use of a 2.4GHz Xeon 5645 with 12GB of ECC DDR3 clocked at 1333. SSD and 4 other SATA3 HDD all installed without issue.
I opted to overclock it a bit to 3.1GHz, with (good) air cooling, and careful attention to case airflow. Temps have been very acceptable. No flakiness to any parts, no reboots / hangs etc. The overclocked machine was proven Memtest and CPUburn stable.
My one "regret" with this board came after I was tweaking the setup...it *IS* correctly mentioned in the motherboard manual, but I had not read all the fine print. Specifically, the SATA2(x6) and SATA3(x2) ports all support RAID in one form or another. However, with the SATA2 bank - if you want to set them up into a RAID array, its all of them or none of them. In my case, I was originally hoping to put 2 of the "spinners" into a RAID 1 array, and leaving the other 2 drives as solitary scratch disks. Apparently, this is not possible. As a result, with the SSD drive correctly on the SATA3 port (drive supports SATA3), I can't configure my drives as originally planned. There are lots of ways around this, or course, but the relative inflexibility of the configuration (apparently a chipset limitation) caught me a bit off guard.
Otherwise, the board seems to be working great.
Again, says nothing about the PRO...
-A

hi all.
I hope that some one can help me I have http://valid.canardpc.com/2828775 that is not OCed now , and I just both 6 x 4GB 240p PC3-10600 CL9 DDR3-1333 2Rx4 1.5V ECC RDIMM Samsung, M393B5170EH1-CH9Q1 .
the BIG Problem is that it wont start (no POST, no BIOS) with these RAMs I tried them all , just one , in different slots and nothing , as error from MB I get "b8 ; 02 or O2 ; EA ; 01 or O1"

I have the latest bios update and I am running the PC fine with 2x4GB 1333MHz Corsaire with which I have tested all the DIMs Slots (for dead slots) and they are good , did CMOS clear

PC as I have the Specs uper
Intel Xeon X5675
MB asus P6x58e-WS
PSU 600W
GPU HIS Ati R9 270x

Please help

 

[readymix]

hi all.
I hope that some one can help me I have http://valid.canardpc.com/2828775 that is not OCed now , and I just both 6 x 4GB 240p PC3-10600 CL9 DDR3-1333 2Rx4 1.5V ECC RDIMM Samsung, M393B5170EH1-CH9Q1 .
the BIG Problem is that it wont start (no POST, no BIOS) with these RAMs I tried them all , just one , in different slots and nothing , as error from MB I get "b8 ; 02 or O2 ; EA ; 01 or O1"

I have the latest bios update and I am running the PC fine with 2x4GB 1333MHz Corsaire with which I have tested all the DIMs Slots (for dead slots) and they are good , did CMOS clear

PC as I have the Specs uper
Intel Xeon X5675
MB asus P6x58e-WS
PSU 600W
GPU HIS Ati R9 270x

Please help

if you want ecc you need udimm (unbuffered) not rdimm (registered) memory in that mb