The Asus P5W64 WS Professional offered virtually identical performance to its more mainstream counterpart, the Asus P5W DH and held a slight advantage in most of our benchmarks over the Intel BadAxe motherboard. In our testing with the P5W64 WS configured with the Areca Hardware RAID controller, the combination put up some of the fastest RAID performance numbers we've seen in our labs to date.

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