ASUS PRO WS W680-ACE INTEL SOCKET LGA1700 FOR 12TH & 13TH GEN 4DDR5 128GB ATX

I picked up this board specifically to build a home server from it, choosing a lower idle power CPU to pair with ECC DDR5 memory. Solid well constructed board with a complete feature set and sample of options in the BIOS to tweak out a cool running home server. 4 x16 wide PCIe (electrical 8x, 8x, 4x, 4x) has plenty of NVME options, SAS and SATA connections for running high drive count. Aux power to give extra juice to the PCIe slots is a bonus. Very pleased.

I recently used this motherboard to build a workstation. I read the online manuals for this motherboard before purchasing it. One thing that I found extremely misleading is that the online ASUS support site for this specific motherboard includes a RAID manual that discusses options for configuring RAID using the CPU and/or the PCH/chipset. However, this RAID manual is apparently a generic manual and BEWARE that not all features described in this RAID manual necessarily apply to the motherboard you're looking at. So for this motherboard for instance, it does not support VROC (CPU RAID) at all. I didn't learn this until I had actually made the purchase and was trying to configure the system to have a VROC array. It is not possible. Further, the spacing of the two PCI-e gen 5 x16 slots will not enable you to install anything larger than a two-slot card in the first of these if you also want to install something in the second PCIe x16 gen5 slot. In other words, they're spaced two-slots away form each other. This is problematic for the scenario where you want to install two things and one of those takes three slots which many GPUs do. Also this doesn't support XMP profiles - or at least I can't find them. It doesn't come with the graphical BIOS, but only the old-school text-mode BIOS, and that BIOS' Tweaker page doesn't include any XMP settings. You *can* adjust the MT/s speed for your memory, and there are TONS of manual settings for adjusting RAM latencies, but it would be much better if it could just use the XMP profile built into the DRAM itself rather than hoping you guess right on all of these various latency values (there are WAY more than 4 of them so it'd be very easy to guess them wrong). I just changed the speed alone and left the rest of the values as-is. Another thing that really bums me out about this motherboard is that it doesn't have any Thunderbolt port. You have to buy an expansion card if you want Thunderbolt. And for a workstation-class motherboard it's also a letdown that it doesn't have a 10Gbps NIC. Also - there's no built-in WiFi. And there are NO PCIe gen 5 M.2 ports. When it says it has "Thundergbolt 4 header support" that just means you have to buy an extra PCIe card and attach the header to that card using a cable. It does NOT include any TPM card so you have to purchase that separately if you want to install an OS like Windows. I used this TPM card successfully with this motherboard: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CK1DQFZ5

This motherboard has been an absolute game-changer in my home server setup, where stability is the top priority. It has performed flawlessly, providing 24/7 reliability without a single hiccup. From the moment I installed it, I could tell that it was built with precision and quality, and that has translated into unparalleled stability. It's the backbone of my home server, effortlessly handling heavy workloads and maintaining consistent performance day in and day out. If you're seeking a motherboard that you can trust implicitly in a 24/7 home server environment, look no further – this one is a rock-solid choice that deserves a resounding five-star rating. It's the epitome of stability and dependability, and I couldn't be happier with its performance.

Auf Kundenwunsch war ich auf der Suche nach einem Mainboard mit ECC-Funktion. Dieses Board soll es unterstützen, aber ich glaube lediglich on-Die ECC, das ist wahrscheinlich besser als ohne, aber ich vermute auch nicht das wahre. Wie auch immer bietet dieses Board diese Funktion, andere mit dieser Funktion kosten mindestens das doppelte. Außerdem besitzt es ein Slim SAS Anschluss. Leider aber auch nur einen. Ansonsten hat es natürlich alles was man braucht. Dennoch finde ich das Board mit mehr als 300 viel zu teuer. Für etwa 200 würd ich das Board vielen anderen bevorzugen.

I went with this motherboard over the Z790 boards because this board has more stability and pro minded features than the gaming focused z790 boards out there. I appreciate the dual 2.5 intel gigabit ports, support for ecc ram, and also support for dual PCIE 5.0 slots. I built this as a replacement for an older workstation and so far it has been working flawlessly with no issues right out of the box.