Be aware of the bad, early batches of the Master. This is what Fast Eddie writes in
another thread"The MS-6341 is a sweet board, if you get a good one---faster than most of the competition, but comes with a grain of salt. It
appears that the boards with the "evaluation" sticker didn't receive the same QC treatment as the rest of the production boards.
I've had three of them through here. The first was unbuildable and extremely unstable, the second ran faster than hell for three
weeks, then took a powder. The third is in a build I sent out to a fellow speed geek, and is still up and running the way I set it
up. I'll let you know on the forth when I get it via rma.
Theory: The problem boards seem to have a voltage anomaly with the 3.3v rail (agp & pci slots) on a soft restart, and with these
specific boards the voltage drop on a soft system reboot will fail to properly initialize the agp video adapter. Hitting the reset
button will bring the display adapter on line; but, in that these boards support both 3.3v & 5v cards, the resulting voltage spike
from the reset seems to supply an over-voltage to the rest of the PCI slots, (the first board I had toasted both an Elsa Gladiac
GTS and a Netgear 311-TX nic).
Note: The good boards don't show any of these problems. And I say this from personal experience as the third MS-6341 ,(the
one I sent out in a build), ran, and is still runing, perfect with the exact same component set as the first two boards. "
Edit: there are others at amdzone that has had problems with their k7 master mobos as well, not just fast-eddie