Features-
In the current market motherboard (and indeed almost all component) performance is very close. The days of a large performance advantage between boards using the same chipset are long gone. That is unless someone makes a HUGE mistake (like runs traces completely wrong). Now, the thing that differentiates different products is the features. These are things like power management, extra slots, better audio CODECs etc. It is these items that R&D teams work so hard to drop into what are really identical pieces of hardware at their most basic level.

Asus is one of those companies that will really load you up with features. Some of them are great, others well… they are not so wonderful. Do let’s take a look at the features of the P8P67 WS Revolution and see how they fall into place.

Excellent
Asus Digi+ VRM
Three-way SLI / Crossfire
Quick Gate (USB Ports on the board)
AI Suite II
Asus EFI BIOS
TPU + EPU

Ok each of these are features that really add value to the WS Revolution.  When you break it down like this there are not many, but the ones that are here in this upper category are pretty good.  The Digi+ VRM is not a new feature but one that Asus is pushing down from the ROG line up into the consumer level products. It allows for very granular control over the power settings, including being able to control the frequency of the power regulators.  The TPU module is what makes overclocking Asus boards so easy while the TPU module and EPU module combined make up one of the best power management designs we have seen lately.

In the middle (sort of good)
Asus Fan Xpert
Asus WS Heartbeat (LEDs that pulse on and off)
MemOk!
Asus SASsaby Support
G.P Diagnostic Card

In the happy middle ground we find a decent list of features. These are the ones that could influence your decision to buy but are not major motivations. The Asus Fan Xpert is here because of the improvements that Asus has made to this feature. Most notably you can now manually control the chassis fans in the same way you can control the CPU fan.

Floor Mats
ASUS EZ Flash 2
ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3
Q-Fan Plus
ASUS Q-Connector
ASUS Q-LED
ASUS Q-Slot
ASUS Q-DIMM

These items are nice, but let’s face it; they are on just about every Asus motherboard in existence (with the exception of the very low end. They are really not going to sway you one way or the other.