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The motherboard is an oft-overlooked component in business systems. It’s what connects the high-powered processors, graphics, storage, memory, and more all together. Opting for a board that ignores what’s important to commercial applications will likely result in bottlenecks and frustrations down the road. When choosing the right motherboards for your business systems, there are a variety of factors to bear in mind. Follow the points discussed below when making your next system upgrades, and you’ll end up with systems that support and foster productivity and success in your business.

Reliability

The foundation of any commercial system is reliability. No system is useful to a business if it can’t be trusted to perform day in, day out, indefinitely. Any motherboard worth its cost should give you peace of mind it can support workstations for years to come. ASUS commercial boards typically come supported by a suite of factors to ensure product reliability. One such inclusion is our 5X Protection II safeguard feature-set that provides the following:

• Surge-protected networking
• Overvoltage protection
• Stable power supply
• Overcurrent protection
• Stainless-steel corrosion-resistant rear I/O

Additionally, the ASUS Corporate Stable Model (CSM) offers businesses up to 36-month product lifecycle support and a 6-month end-of-life notice. It’s factors like these that ensure that when you purchase the right board, you’re confident your system will still be operating well in the years to come.

Performance

Your system is stable and stays on, but how’s the performance? There’s little point having a reliable system if it takes forever for tasks to be executed or render to be completed. Following reliability, your motherboard should offer premium performance. The right motherboard should offer support for the latest technologies such as DDR4 memory, enabling your business to reduce task-times, and improve performance in a variety of use-cases. There are platform choices to consider, such as opting for AMD and Intel, the two chipset offerings, both providing unique benefits, while NVIDIA is also a consideration when it comes to configurations such as a GPU server; both NVIDIA and AMD offers professional graphics technologies for rendering, GPU-driven computational work, and more.

Manageability

Now that performance is ticked, it’s important your business has control over its systems. Software such as ASUS Control Centre Express – ASUS’ server-grade IT management software – gives businesses the level of control over their systems IT departments need:

• System monitoring tools
• Security control features
• Multi-device management
• System logs and tracking

Security and system maintenance are paramount for business operations, so the rightmotherboard should include features that ensure systems remain secure and give IT personnel oversight over each and every company-owned system.

Connectivity

Working with multiple peripherals? Require more than just one graphics card in your system? Need more than one LAN connection? Motherboards come in a variety of sizes, each offering a different feature-set. Depending on your use-case, the right motherboard can offer multiple features that enable your business to flourish:

• Support for multiple graphics cards, ideal for rendering and CAD work.
• Dual Gigabit LAN connectivity with teaming support.
• USB-C, USB 3 and other ports for multiple peripheral connections
• High-speed storage connectivity, including M.2 NVMe drive slots.

Every system user will have slightly different requirements, so the right board will offer the flexibility to adapt to this change in usage. View ASUS boards such as the ASUS Prime B360M-A, which offers a suite of connectivity, reliability, and management features such as ASUS Control Centre Express.   Searching for your next business motherboard upgrade? Look no further than the ASUS range: ASUS Commercial Motherboard Products