Asus P8C WS User Manual

ASUS P8C WS
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Chapter 4
Intel
®
Smart Response Technology
Intel
®
Smart Response Technology boosts overall system performance. It uses an installed
fast SSD (min. 20GB available) as a cache for frequently accessed operations, speeding up
hard drive/main memory interaction. Key benets are expedited hard drive speeds, reduced
load and wait times, and maximized storage utilization. Power consumption also goes down
by reducing unnecessary hard drive spin.
Before applying Intel
®
Smart Response Technology, setting the SATA Mode BIOS item to
[RAID mode] in BIOS setup is necessary. Refer to section 3.5.3 SATA Conguration for
details
Installing Intel
®
Smart Response Technology
Place the support DVD to the optical drive. The Drivers installation tab appears if your
computer has enabled the Autorun feature.
Click the Drivers tab, then click Intel
®
Rapid Storage Technology Driver software.
Follow the onscreen instructions to complete the installation.
Using the Intel
®
Smart Response Technology
Click Accelerate to launch Smart Response
Technology settings.
a. Select the SSD you want to use to
accelerate your storage system.
b. Select the size allocated for SSD
caching.
c. Select which HDD for caching.
d. Enhanced mode: WRITE THROUGH,
write to SSD and HDD at the same
time.
Maximized mode: WRITE BACK, write
to SSD and write back to HDD in a later
time.
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Asus P8C WS Specifications

General

ECC	Yes
Memory channels	Dual-channel
Memory slots type	DIMM
Number of memory slots	4
Supported memory types	DDR3-SDRAM
Supported memory clock speeds	1333, 1600 MHz
Processor socket	LGA 1155 (Socket H2)
Processor manufacturer	Intel
Compatible processor series	Intel Celeron, Intel Pentium
Maximum number of SMP processors	1
Number of SATA III connectors	2
Number of Parallel ATA connectors	-
USB 2.0 ports quantity	6
Audio chip	Realtek ALC892
Cooling type	Passive
Component for	PC
Motherboard chipset	Intel® C216
Audio output channels	7.1 channels
Motherboard form factor	ATX
Compatible operating systems	Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Windows Server 2008 Enterprise 32/64-bit Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise 32/64-bit Windows 7 32/64-bit Windows XP 32/64-bit
RAID levels	0, 1, 5, 10
Supported storage drive interfaces	SATA II, SATA III
Parallel processing technology support	Quad-GPU CrossFireX
PCI Express slots version	2.0, 3.0
PCI Express configurations	1x16, 2x4, 2x8
PCI Express slots quantity	5
LAN controller	Intel® 82574L
Networking features	2 x Gigabit LAN
Ethernet interface type	Gigabit Ethernet
BIOS type	AMI
ACPI version	2.0a
BIOS memory size	64 Mbit

Weight and Dimensions

Depth	245 mm
Width	305 mm