Worldwide Exclusive Integrated Quadro FX470 Motherboard to maximize your return on investment across Partner Certified Graphics Applications
Excellent Performance in Applications Developed by Certified Partners
P5N-VM WS is the workstation motherboard built with the high performance NVIDIA® Quadro® FX 470 chipset worldwide exclusively, and is also certified to provide excellent performance across a diverse spread of industry-leading applications developed by certified partners, such as Computer-aided engineering (CAE), Computer-aided design (CAD)/Autodesk/AutoCAD, Inventor, 3ds Max, Digital content creation (DCC), Research and Geographic information system (GIS)—serving as an impressive workstation solution that is optimized to handle graphics-intensive tasks in these varied fields.
Integrated GPU Quadro FX470 outperforms 3X than GF 9800
The NVIDIA® Quadro® FX 470 chipset addresses the ever-expanding graphics and parallel processing requirements that professional applications—from volume CAD to digital content creation applications—need. Compared to the high-end Geforce card 9800, the P5N-VM WS is able to support OpenGL 2.1 via its graphics chipset and deliver increased computing performance by 300% for the Specviewperf 10*.
*Tested on Asus P5N-VM WS using Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 CPU with 2GB DDR2 RAM on Windows XP32. GPU Driver version 175.90
Cost-effective Quad Display for Increased Work Efficiency
With the industry-standard architecture of the P5N-VM WS, multiple output functionality and support for dual-screen displays will provide cost-effectiveness to customers. In addition, the PCI-E 2.0 x16 expansion slot supports an optional NVIDIA® Quadro® graphics card—allowing users to further expand their screenspace for professional Quad-Display functions to make working much more convenient.
Flexible Storage Options
This motherboard provides six SATA connectors with high performance RAID functions in RAID 0, 1 and 5(Support S/W RAID in Windows) to meet the data storage demands of professionals. In addition, to make hardware upgrades simpler and more convenient, the optional ASUS upgrade kits SASsaby 1064E (supports LSI® Integrated RAID 0, 1, 1E) and SASsaby M (supports S/W RAID 0, 1, 10, and H/W Assisted RAID 5) provide direct support for SAS storage and ensure reliable data protection.