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ASRock X99 WS-E/10G Motherboard Review

James Morris January 22, 2016 Featured Tech News, Motherboard, Workstation

At over £600, this motherboard really should come with the kitchen sink, but the bundle is fairly standard, with a few exceptions.

The motherboard itself is reassuringly protected in a foam tray. This should keep it reasonably safe in transit.

In the box, alongside the expected rear cut-out port shield, there are six SATA 6Gb/sec cables, but the most welcome inclusion is the trio of SLI bridges. There's a flexible two-way ribbon cable, plus non-flexible three-way and four-way options.

There's also a solitary screw for securing a M.2 storage card.

Separate manuals for the motherboard hardware and software are included, alongside the driver CD.

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10 comments

Peeping Tom
January 23, 2016 at 2:55 am

I think for this much money it should have at least one USB 3.1 port. When I bought my first workstation motherboard around the time USB 3.0 was introduced, my board came with two. And it cost maybe half as much as this.
Double460
January 23, 2016 at 10:23 am

I don’t think that USB 3.1 was readily available at time of release.
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Dr James Morris
January 23, 2016 at 12:30 pm

Yes, they do need to do a USB 3.1 version, as Asus has done with some of its workstation boards. But otherwise there is little to fault on this board other than the price – and even that is mitigated when you look at just how expensive 10Gbit Ethernet NICs are.
Peeping Tom
January 23, 2016 at 5:47 pm

That’s actually a good point. USB 3.1 wasn’t readily available until last year and this motherboard was announced in 2014. Guess I assumed this was a new release…after all, what is the point of reviewing a year-old motherboard? LOL
Peeping Tom
January 23, 2016 at 5:51 pm

Yeah 10Gb has to be making up the bulk of that price. I hope the leap in SSD technology supposedly coming i.e. Optane helps drive a push for 10Gb becoming the standard that 1Gb has become.
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Dr James Morris
January 24, 2016 at 2:58 pm

Yes, it’s ludicrously quick as my tests showed!
Dr James Morris
October 21, 2017 at 1:14 pm

To test the 10Gbit…