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P5WDG2 WS Professional

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I was looking around trying to find out why it's almost $100 more than the others until I noticed it has two PCI-X slots! Both are 133MHz capable. So this is a true workstation board. 🙂

Anyone have one?
 
Originally posted by: MS Dawn
I was looking around trying to find out why it's almost $100 more than the others until I noticed it has two PCI-X slots! Both are 133MHz capable. So this is a true workstation board. 🙂

Anyone have one?
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I haven't used it personally, but I've sold quite a few. The PCI-X slots are the big point, obviously, but these boards also offer incredible overclocking, from what I've read. For a while, they were considered the "premier" OC board for the Core 2 Duos, but it may have been dethroned by the P5W64 WS Pro. In any case, it's a great board for overclocking or PCI-X users.
 
If I mad add a question on these lines, do both of these mobos offer Crossifre? I know the P5WDG2-WS-pro does but was wondering about the P5W64 WS Pro. Jeesh with all those PCI-E slots I certainly hope so. I am still stunned though at their cost -- for sure a niche market.
 
I've had it running for close to a month. My main gripe is the turn off restart issue but this affects other 975 boards as well and only when running > 333 FSB. It has something to do with a PLL reset and *may* be corrected in the future with a BIOS update.

The LGA775 "socket" is very close to the top of the board. Close enough in fact that the Tuniq Tower will *NOT* fit in the Lian Li PC-V2100 Plus case without modification. A cutout of the bulkhead to facilitate this was necessary.

Having PCI-X makes it a true workstation board and the platform is quite stable heavily loaded. The two PCI-E slots can be used for X-Fire ATi card configuration if the user desires.
 
The P5W64 WS Pro will also run SLI with the hacked drivers from what I been reading. Does 460fsb out of the box supposedly and can be modded for even more performance. XS has at least one long thread devoted to this mobo and all it can do and how to do it. The four PCIe slots can allow you to run up to eight monitors if you have a need for so many. Its also QuadCore compatible according to Intel. Its a workstation mobo designed for professionals. Hence its higher cost.
 
MS Dawn,

So if you run the mobo at stock speeds, no overclocking , there shouldn't be any problems ?

I always used K8W's for sm servers but I'd like to see if the P5WDG2 WS Professional would be a 24/7 caliber mobo..

Any issues w/ using all 4 memory banks ? I'd use atleast 4 gigs of ram...

Regards,
Jose
 
No issues at all stock. No problems with four 1GB sticks. 2GB sticks (for 8GB) forces PC5300 speed due to chipset limitation. ECC is supported. It would make a VG server board and inexpensive.
 
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