Installation

I guess it's clear that most people who seek motherboards for servers must have a certain degree of technical knowledge. Theoretically it’s possible to install the board in a server tower case or in a rack mountable chassis (starting with 2U), but the previous limitations apply. The ATX power headers are placed in a good position, so if you decide to use a 2U chassis this is a positive fact. For platform reliability tests we installed the motherboard in a 2U CI Design case, the same case used in the previous review about the AMD MP servers.
The motherboard was installed in the same conditions like the MSI K7D Master, for more details I suggest you to read the older article because you can find a lot of rack chassis advices.

The AMD dual platform is perfectly compatible with most Linux and Unix releases, Windows NT/2000/XP. I didn’t experience any problems with drivers’ installation or operation. Several days ago I downloaded the Microsoft .NET server, but I didn't have time to try it.
In order to test the platform's reliability I installed four ECC registered Corsair DDR2100 modules. I have also installed an old TNT AGP card and a Promise TX2 RAID adapter. As already discussed in a previous article, 64 bit slots are 3.3V only, so you can not install 5V cards in there.

I will not insist on BIOS overclocking features, because these are almost inexistent. You can not tweak voltages or other parameters, all you can do is adjust FSB. The memory settings are quite detailed and can be changed to adjust performance or stability.