Review of Intel’s Entry Level WX58BP Workstation Board - but the sidenote is CrossFire Pro

3DProfessor has a review of the Intel WX58BP Entry Level Workstation Board for the Xeon processor W3500 series.  The gist: “For many years the owners of UP workstation mainboards have had the luxury of marching around boasting the best from Supermicro, Tyan and the Tier 1 companies.  Not so anymore.  This has been a bold move from Intel ... this is a good optional workstation mainboard… we have to award Intel’s Workstation Board WX58BP (Banroof Point) a joint Editors Choice Award with Supermicro’s X8SAX”

Now for me the especially interesting part of the story is the SPEC 10 benchmark  comparing a FireProV7750 card with two FirePro V7750 cards in CrossFire mode. See the table below (taken from 3DProfessor), but essentially this confirms the significant acceleration for Ensight, Maya and UG/NX.