Bij AnandTech is een review verschenen over de MSI K7T Master mamaplank. Dit is de eerste plank die de woorden AMD en server/workstation samen laat gaan. De plank is namelijk uitgerust met een Ultra160 SCSI controller en FireWire (IEEE 1394) support. Daarnaast heeft deze plank ook nog een layout van een goede kwaliteit met 1 AGP, 6 PCI, 1 CNR en 4 DIMM sloten. Een klein nadeel is wel dat deze plank niet vriendelijk is voor overclockers, maar dat is ook niet zo belangrijk voor de meeste servers/workstations:
Microstar does not disappoint us with their K7T Master. AMD has proven that their processors are ready for server/workstation market, and Microstar has finally provided us with the appropriate platform.
To make the motherboard ready for server and workstation use, Microstar puts an Ultra160 SCSI controller, IEEE 1394 Firewire controller, ATA-100 support, and IDE RAID controller all onto a single board. These are some of the components high end users look for and these are the very features that have been denied to AMD users for so long. The K7T Master provides the same high level of stability that we're used to, and there is no doubt this is a very impressive motherboard for the server and workstation market.
It's about time that a motherboard manufacturer took the Socket-A platform seriously and we'll shortly begin seeing even more Socket-A boards targeted at this market, especially with the forthcoming release of the AMD 760MP chipset, the first dual processor chipset for the Athlon.
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