Ixse, good points. I wonder if it is possible to put an Opteron in the main socket (connecting to memory and peripherals) and put an AFX in the second CPU socket. Doesn't seem like a good idea, though, because all the memory of the second CPU would be far. Maybe MSI is selling this motherboard into the FX market because it does not make a good server (due to that far memory requirement).
ixse - right you are, forgot about the 64FX being a 14x, not 24x. However, on the RAM, I wasn't thinking about gaming per se, but on some workstation apps, etc, that might be able to use the extra memory. Paul