Pros: First let me re-rate to 3.5 eggs. Dual CPU, Good chipset.Excellent platform for a average to high end workstation.SLI, 6 mem slots, free heatsinks and fans.Raid support(which I don't use currently)Tweakable BIOS.

Cons: Bad Layout, forces cables to be disruptive to cooling air flow. Cheap chipset fan, memory cooling fan almost useless. Audio in-operative out of the box. 4x PCI almost useless. Almost no tech support on website.

Overall Review: Would like to see better testing at the factory. MSI could have had a winner if a little more thought went into this board. Should have went Tyan.

Comments: Had to make a single raptor a JBOD array to get WinXP to recognize it. Also, the SLI switch board was mislabled...SLI mode/non-SLI-mode were reversed.This prevented loading of Video drivers for a 7800GT until we tried reversing the switch. Other than that, a good board. Seems solid and ATX is a plus as far as finding a case.

Pros: Looks really cool

Cons: Anything can go wrong. I have 3 of these and there is something wrong with each of them. I have had to re flash the CMOS due to the infallable "CMOS Checksum error" to which MSI has not yet responded to my trouble ticket. I have one that does not recognize any keyboard/mouse no matter where I connect them. The onboard RAID/SATA controllers are absolutely horrible and cause Windows to lock up adn crash. MSI has tried to go too far to fast and has completely failed. I await another of these and hope it works.

Pros: I purchased five of these motherboards from NewEgg in one order. As usual, NewEgg's shipment was prompt and fast; I received the motherboards within three days. The MSI K8N Master2-Far is one of the more affordable dual-socket 940 motherboards that are available. It also has a relatively compact form-factor that makes it easy to use in a wide range of server cases. That, however, is where the positive attributes of the MSI K8N Master2-FAR end. The rest of the MSI K8N Master2-FAR experience is a nightmare.

Cons: Of the five MSI K8n Master2-Far motherboards that I purchased, two arrived DOA. Of the three remaining motherboards, two kept hanging on POST -- turns out they had shipped with an out-dated BIOS. Oddly enough, the most up-to-date BIOS is _not_ available from the MSI website. Instead, I had to hunt-down a German MSI forum with a link burried to the latest BIOS. None of the MSI tech support people I contacted were able provide me with access to the latest BIOS. These motherboards are also extreemly unstable with all 6 DIMM sockets populated. Because of this, I have not been able to make use of more than 4 DIMM's on any of my motherboards. MSI provided me with an RMA for the 2 DOA boards within 2 hours of me submitting a ticket. I shipped the boards out next-day-air to MSI. It has been over three weeks since I shipped the defective boards out, and I am still waiting! These boards have terrible quality, poor documentation, lousy support, and awful RMA service.

Overall Review: You may save some money up-front with these boards, but that will be more than offset by the poor quality, terrible service, and unstable operation. Do yourself a favor and spend the extra $

Pros: This board is fitted out for basic server or workstation use. Heavy mod freaks won't like the fact that you have to use the included CPU fans, the mount is different from the standard AMD mount. It supports SATA, I've got a couple of RAID1 arrays, and the board has extra system fan connectors so you can push it pretty hard. A perfect Photoshop setup, two Opteron 270's and 8GB let Photoshop really stretch outon XP 64 bit! With a terabyte of RAID storage you can keep most of your work live and local, on secure RAID arrays. It has what you need, no frills. That's good, because if it isn't there, it won't break!!

Cons: The board can be fussy about drives; the primary slave has to be the hard drive, not an optical drive. No big deal, but a bit of a fuss to figure out. It also can hang on detecting the RAID arrays with the included driver, updating the driver and/o BIOS is no big deal but it's anoither step. The SLI card arrived set up for two video cards, if you're using only one card it can be tricky to figure out what's wrong!

Overall Review: Get ready for 64 bit computing, it's coming down the pike. This board seems to be ideal for an XP 64 bit setup, just don't expect to connect a whole lot of expansion cards. It really IS a server/workstation board. Well worth the price.

Pros: Good Basics for a server I have a AMD Op 270 and 265 one 7900gtx and 2 gigs of ram and works great

Cons: SLI Print is upside down

Pros: fast, easy to install. lots of usb, firewire, sata.

Cons: not much space for aftermarket coolers, luckly it comes with heatsinks.

Overall Review: built a dual 275 with 8gb ram and dual 7800gtx's 4 sata drives. really fast rig. purfect for gaming and what ever else i want to throw at it :)

Pros: Very well designed for dual CPU's. Comes with 2 mirrored CPU coolers that are way to install. RAID is actual hardware RAID and can tie in to the IDE drives as well. Can be over clocked easy. Lots of extras. SLI came enabled and works very well for me. Ram cooler helps with over clocking. If you read the requirements for the AMD Opteron proc's you will be fine. NIC's are stable and the onboard audio is great. Came with a Blankout that holds the SLI bridge in place.

Cons: There is only one PCI slot, and 1 PCI-X slot. The USB connectors are at the bottom of the board and I had to route them round my video cards for the back connectors and the front connectors are a bit far as well. The intruction book could be a bit more clear.

Overall Review: Very well designed board. Rembmer with the Opteron cpu's you need Reg-ECC RAM installed or it wont work, and you have to make sure you dont go above the speed that your CPU can handel. Also you need 20+Amps on the 12v Rail. I would stay away from the dual 12v rail cpu's. And you will be good to go :D