Another item worth mentioning was the extraordinarily large size of the board's PCB. While my case is large enough to house this board with extra room to spare, many other more standard ATX cases may have some trouble. I on the other hand had no trouble what so ever installing my SD11 into my ATX case.

Installing the Monster

While this is one of the largest mainboards I have ever seen, (though most dual CPU boards are about the same size, if not bigger) I knew I would have no trouble installing this baby in my ATX case. After easily popping out my removable I/O shield plate and installing the one provided by FIC I was ready to go.

Lucky, my Enlight case has a compatible 300W power supply that was able to provided enough juice this power-hungry board needs. I have heard many reports of the SD11 (especially revision 1.8) having the biggest problem with power supplies. All of us here at Speedy 3D cannot stress enough the importance of having AT LEAST a 300W power supply, preferably one that has been recommended by AMD.

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