14 DAY TRIAL // Aside from delivering some of the most successful netbooks on the market, Taiwanese manufacturer ASUSTek is also known for developing some of the best platforms for both consumer and professional market segments. The company, which has seen its share of favorable reviews with products such as the Striker and Rampage Extreme motherboards, announced yesterday a new product designed to complete its lineup of workstation platforms.
The new motherboard comes to provide an optimum level of performance, based on the computing power of AMD's Quad-core Opteron 2300 series and Dual-core Opteron 2200 series. The newly introduced mobo is built on a green PCB, and is equipped with an NVIDIA nForce Professional 3600 chipset.
One of the most significant features of ASUS’ latest product is its over 90% high power efficiency. In addition, the company claims that its latest KFSN5-D serverboard offers a significant reduction of the TCO (total cost of ownership), a feature that will most certainly be of great benefit to end users.
The board comes with two 1207 sockets and 16 DDR2 memory lanes, which can support a maximum of 64GB for optimum performance. As far as storage is concerned, the nForce Professional 3600 chipset provides six SATA 2 ports with support for RAID 0, 1, 10, 5 and JBOD. In addition, the Taiwanese manufacturer will also provide its customers with an optional PIKE 1064E (4-port SAS), PIKE 1068E (8-port SAS) and PIKE 1078 (8-port SAS with Hardware RAID5 & RAID6) to directly upgrade SATA storage to SAS storage.
The board, which comes in an SSI EEB form factor, also provides dual port NIC (Network Interface Controllers) and onboard Gfx with XGI Z9S PCI Display Controller featuring 32MB of memory.
The new board was introduced shortly after yet another mobo was released at the beginning of last week. Unlike the new KFSN5-D serverboard, the Z7S, announced earlier, has been designed on Intel's 5400 chipset, and is meant for powerful workstation systems.
