XBit Lab ha pubblicato, a <a href="http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mainboards/display/20030416055850.html">questo indirizzo</a>, une interessante pagina informativi riguardante la scheda madre MSI K8D Master.<p><center><img src="http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/news/2003-04/msi_opteron_300.jpg"></center><p>
Questa scheda dual Opteron, riportata in figura, è chiaramente rivolta al mercato server, considerando anche la mancanza dello slot AGP.
<br><p><blockquote><i>Eccone le caratteristiche:<br>
* Supports two Socket 940 AMD Opteron processors;<br>
* AMD 8131 and 8111 I/O tunnels;<br>
* 6 DIMM slots for up to 12GB of registered PC1600, PC2100 or PC2700 DDR SDRAM memory;<br>
* 2 PCI (32-bit/33MHz) slots, 3 PCI-X (64-bit/100MHz) slots, 1 miniPCI slot;<br>
* ATI Rage XL integrated graphics controller with 8MB of SDRAM memory;<br>
* 2-channel ATA-133/100/66/33 integrated controller;<br>
* Dual 64-bit 10/100/1000Mb/s Ethernet from Broadcom;<br>
* 4 USB 2.0 ports;<br>
* 2 PS/2 ports, 1 Parallel and 1 Serial ports;<br>
* Server Management (IPMI 1.5): NS mBMC on board with MSI Management Suite (MMS);<br>
* E-ATX Form Factor (30.48cm x 33.02cm).<br></i></blockquote>