Fitting together
Note how the A9S card and AMD cooler then block the access path to the first PCI-Express slot?. That's one reason why there's a second one behind.
The A9S card is also the reason why there's 2 BIOS chips on the board. One for Intel and one for AMD. Once the convertor card is plugged in correctly, the board switches the BIOS to AMD's. The PF88 Extreme ships with just the Intel chip in place, and AMD's is supplied with the A9S card.
Once installed, the PCI-Express card is moved to the left. With an ATI RADEON X850 XT PE 256MB in situ one niggly problem arose. Accessing the clear CMOS jumper, which is on the far left, with the motherboard in a regular CoolerMaster WaveMaster case, is frustratingly difficult without removing the card. ECS should also have used a big-headed jumper, found primarily on ABIT boards.
The same setup with an Intel CPU, cooler and DDR2 RAM in place. Much cleaner, but that's kind of obvious, isn't it?
