The one thing that makes the new ASRock X99 WS-E/10G motherboard stand out from the crowd and sets it apart from similar workstation class motherboards based on Intel's X99 Express chipset is the fact that it comes with dual 10GBase-T Ethernet ports, powered by an Intel X540 chipset, as well as two standard Gigabit Ethernet ports coming from Intel I210AT controller. According to ASRock, all these cports can be combined for a theoretical bandwidth of 22Gbps.

The rest of the specifications are pretty much in line with other workstation class X99 based motherboards as it comes with seven PCI-Express slots with support for quad Crossfire or SLI configuration. Four of those PCI-Express Gen3 x16 slots are working at x16/x16/x16/x16 thanks to two PLX 9747 chips, while all seven can also be used in x16/x8/x8/x8/x8/x8/x8 mode, at least if you can find seven single slot graphics cards. It also comes with a total of 12 SATA 6Gbps ports, SATA Express 10Gbps port, single M.2 Gen2 x4 slot, as well as SATA DOM and USB DOM ports.

As expected, the new ASRock WS-E/10G motherboard supports Intel Xeon E5 v3 CPUs and can take up to 128GB of ECC UDIMM/RDIMM memory in eight DDR4 memory slots.

Unfortunately, ASRock did not shed any details regarding the price or the availability date of the new X99 WS-E/10G motherboard.