This system started out a a machine that I had saved from being recycled at a local technology recycling center and has evolved into a project that has become far bigger and more powerful than I had ever imagined. After I got the system home I immediately started doing research on the platform and it's components, I had found that the CPU socket was a Socket F server socket that had been re-purposed for the FX 70 series CPUs through modifications made to the BIOS and that the system has dual Nvidia Nforce 680A SLI southbridge chips providing 56 lanes for connection with 48 being used for the PCI-E slots. I also ran into the problem of the air cooling components being insufficient to keep up with the 2360SE Opterons and decided to move to a custom built watercooling setup that would handle the heat generated and allow me to run the system in a silent way. I had fount that there was a second version of the motherboard that used the AMD Opteron series of CPUs, the L1n64 SLI-WS/B that was physically and electrically the same but with a different BIOS that allowed for the use of up to quad core Opterons. Now I have undertaken the task of attempting to modify the BIOS to allow for a more expansive CPU list Including up to the 6 core Istanbul 2400 series!