Lots of folks are getting antsy about PCI-X, the problem is that putting dual capability in the board is not cheap. As said, this is a Workstation\PC very high end and not an enterprise server board. It is one of the first, and I am sure that others will follow and that Tyan will come out with some server boards that are true server boards for large enterprise file servers and for very heavy calculations and large databases as well.

This is an early entry board that can be run one Opteron or two and is a way to buy to latest Workstation tech and the designs for server boards will follow. It is an all-around, not storage optimized for 64 bit cards, but the embedded is decent for what workstation folks.

The PATA 133\100 and SATAlite on the chipset specs at Via are run from a Via DriveStation subfunction chip right now per Via specs-- that is what full 4 device RAID 0, 1 or 0+1 will be like with the Southbridge used if MSI did not cripple the thing. so, yes, it probably will be 32 bit with a common linkage bus unless the SATA part has extrabandwidht and the PATA is using a 32 bit bridge and the bridge line is two bridges to pins on one seperate DriveStation or the DriveStation is bifurcated internally (possible).

Board mfrs are only going to make support fro what is on the market and economical for their niche. Someone who wants an all in one that file serves massively should wait and buy a server board with embedded 64\66 PCI or a 64\66 embedded pipe to a full SATA embedding. But file servers are normally storage and storage I\O tuned (massive very fast HDs and full 64\66 SATA)and are not needing hyper fast graphics.