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ASRock E3V5 WS Workstation Motherboard Review

Specifications and Features

ASRock E3V5 WS

 General
Unique Feature ASRock Super Alloy
– Premium 50A Power Choke
– High Density Glass Fabric PCB
ASRock Full Spike Protection
ASRock Live Update & APP Shop
CPU – Supports the Intel® Xeon® E3-1200 v5 Processor and 6th Generation Intel® Core™ i7/i5/i3/Pentium®/Celeron® Processors (Socket 1151)
– 5 Power Phase design
– Supports Intel® Turbo Boost 2.0 Technology
Chipset – Intel® C232
Memory – Dual Channel DDR4 Memory Technology
– 4 x DDR4 DIMM Slots
– Supports DDR4 2133 non-ECC, un-buffered memory
– Supports ECC UDIMM memory modules*
– Max. capacity of system memory: 64GB**
– Supports Intel® Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) 2.0
– 15μ Gold Contact in DIMM Slots

*ECC memory modules are supported with Intel® E3/Core™ i3/Pentium®/Celeron® CPU only. With Intel® Core™ i7/i5 CPU, ECC function is not supported.

**Due to the operating system limitation, the actual memory size may be less than 4GB for the reservation for system usage under Windows® 32-bit OS. For Windows® 64-bit OS with 64-bit CPU, there is no such limitation.

BIOS – 128Mb AMI UEFI Legal BIOS with multilingual GUI support
– ACPI 5.0 Compliant wake up events
– SMBIOS 2.7 Support
– CPU, DRAM, VPPM, PCH 1.0V, VCCIO, VCCSA Voltage Multi-adjustment
 Audio, Video and Networking
Graphics – n/a
Audio – 7.1 CH HD Audio with Content Protection (Realtek ALC892 Audio Codec)*
– Premium Blu-ray Audio support
– Supports Surge Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection)
– ELNA Audio Caps

*To configure 7.1 CH HD Audio, it is required to use an HD front panel audio module and enable the multi-channel audio feature through the audio driver.
LAN – Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s
– Giga PHY Intel® I219LM
– Supports Wake-On-LAN
– Supports Lightning/ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection)
– Supports Energy Efficient Ethernet 802.3az
– Supports PXE
 Expansion / Connectivity
Slots – 2 x PCI Express 3.0 x16 Slots (PCIE2: x16 mode; PCIE4: x4 mode)*
– 3 x PCI Express 3.0 x1 Slots (Flexible PCIe)
– Supports AMD Quad CrossFireX™ and CrossFireX™
– 15μ Gold Contact in VGA PCIe Slot (PCIE2)

*Supports NVMe SSD as boot disks
Storage – 6 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s Connectors, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, Intel® Rapid Storage Technology enterprise), NCQ, AHCI and Hot Plug
Connector – 1 x TPM Header
– 1 x Power LED and Speaker Header
– 1 x CPU Fan Connector (4-pin) (Smart Fan Speed Control)
– 2 x Chassis Fan Connectors (4-pin) (Smart Fan Speed Control)*
– 1 x 24 pin ATX Power Connector
– 1 x 8 pin 12V Power Connector
– 1 x Front Panel Audio Connector
– 2 x USB 2.0 Headers (Support 4 USB 2.0 ports) (Supports ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection))
– 1 x USB 3.0 Header (Supports 2 USB 3.0 ports) (Supports ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection))

*The CPU Fan Connector supports the CPU fan of maximum 1A (12W) fan power.
Rear Panel I/O – 1 x PS/2 Mouse Port
– 1 x PS/2 Keyboard Port
– 2 x USB 2.0 Ports (Supports ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection))
– 4 x USB 3.0 Ports (Supports ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection))
– 1 x RJ-45 LAN Port with LED (ACT/LINK LED and SPEED LED)
– HD Audio Jacks: Line in / Front Speaker / Microphone
 Other Features / Miscellaneous
Software and BIOS Software
– ASRock A-Tuning
– ASRock Disk Health Report
– ASRock USB Key
– ASRock APP Charger
– ASRock XFast LAN
– ASRock XFast RAM
– ASRock Fast Boot (Fast Boot, Restart to UEFI)*
UEFI
– ASRock EZ Mode
– ASRock My Favorites in UEFI
– ASRock Instant Flash
– ASRock Internet Flash
– ASRock Crashless BIOS
– ASRock OMG (Online Management Guard)
– ASRock UEFI System Browser
– ASRock UEFI Tech Service
– ASRock Easy RAID Installer
– ASRock Easy Driver Installer

*These utilities can be downloaded from ASRock Live Update & APP Shop.
Support CD – Drivers, Utilities, AntiVirus Software (Trial Version), Google Chrome Browser and Toolbar
Accessories – Quick Installation Guide, Support CD, I/O Shield
– 2 x SATA Data Cables
Hardware Monitor – CPU/Chassis temperature sensing
– CPU/Chassis Fan Tachometer
– CPU/Chassis Quiet Fan (Auto adjust chassis fan speed by CPU temperature)
– CPU/Chassis Fan multi-speed control
– Voltage monitoring: +12V, +5V, +3.3V, CPU Vcore
Form Factor – ATX Form Factor: 12.0-in x 7.5-in, 30.5 cm x 19.1 cm
– Solid Capacitor design
OS – Microsoft® Windows® 10 64-bit / 8.1 64-bit / 7 32-bit / 7 64-bit / Server 2012 R2 64-bit / Server 2012 64-bit / Server 2008 R2 64-bit*

*To install Windows® 7 OS, a modified installation disk with xHCI drivers packed into the ISO file is required. Please see online tutorial or check our User Manual for more detailed instructions.
For the updated Windows® 10 driver, please visit ASRock’s website for details.
Certifications – FCC, CE, WHQL
– ErP/EuP ready (ErP/EuP ready power supply is required)

Specifications have been taken from ASRock website.

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The Packaging

The E3V5 WS has been packed as most motherboards so slim box with some fittings which are protecting the motherboard. Inside the box we will find user’s manual, drivers CD/DVD, two SATA cables and I/O shield. Not so much but enough to install the motherboard.

On the CD are drivers and additional ASRock software like APP Charger, APP Shop or 3TB+ Unlocker. There are also Norton Security and Google Chrome/Toolbar installers. Again not much but enough. Personally I don’t like most of the additional applications which are adding motherboard manufacturers but some of them are really handy so it’s worth to check them.

 

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