The ASRock X99 WS-E is a workstation board for those who need high performance as well as rock solid stability. Just the fact that the X99 south bridge heat sink utilizes a fan for extra cooling proves that this motherboard is built to work under high stress and not skip a beat.
It offers support for Intel i7 and Xeon E5-1600/2600 v3 CPUs (LGA 2011-3 socket), up to 18 cores and 160W. It powers this through its 12 power phase design with 60A chokes and Nichicon 12K platinum caps. You can throw quad channel DDR4 3200+ (OC) RAM in it with a maximum capacity support of 128GB. It also accepts DDR4 UDIMM ECC and RDIMM memory. Through the inclusion of the PLX 8747 bridge this motherboard can support up to 4-way SLI or 4-way CrossFireX x16 through four of its seven PCIe 3.0 x16 slots. It also comes with their Purity Sound 2 7.1 CH HD audio that features the latest Realtek ALC1150 audio codec.
