TYAN S2912, Manual

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Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 - Congratulations
You have purchased one of the most powerful server soluti ons available. The
Thunder n3600R (S2912) is a high-end server motherboard, based on the
NVIDIA NPF3600 chipset. It also includes the Winbond W83627HF Super IO
and Analog Devices ADT7476 Hardware Monitoring chipsets.
This motherboard is designed to support two AMD Opteron RevF 2000 Series
processors and up to 32GB of DDR2 400/533/667 memory. The S2912 is ideal
for high-density performance serving and clustering, data center and IT
infrastructure development. The S2912 is also ideal for multi-node rendering
and processing, web and business application serving, Large-scale visual
simulations .
Remember to visit TYAN’s website at
http://www.tyan.com . There you can find
information on all of TYAN’s products with FAQs, online manuals and BIOS
upgrades.
1.2 - Hardware Specifications
Processors
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Dual 1207-pin ZIF sockets
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Supports up to two AMD Opteron
RevF 2000 Series processors
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Two onboard 4-phase digital VRMs
Chipset
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NVIDIA NPF3600
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Winbond W83627HF Super IO
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Analog Devices ADT7476 Hardware
Monitoring IC
Integrated I/O
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One floppy connector supports up to
two drives
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One IDE connector supports up to two
ATA 133 devices
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One parallel port header and one
serial port
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Eight USB 2.0 EHCI ports
(two rear connectors and six headers)
Memory
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Dual-channel memory bus
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Eight DDR2 sockets (four per CPU)
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Supports ECC Registered DIMMs
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Maximum of 32GB DDR2-
400/533/667
Integrated Network Processor
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Two GbE via Marvell PHY 88E1121
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Supports WOL and PXE
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Two RJ-45 ports with LEDs
Integrated SATA Controllers
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Three Integrated dual port SATA
Controllers from NFP3600
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Supports up to 6 SATA drives
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Supports up to 3.0Gb/s
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Supports RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5, JBOD-
Integrated Video Controller
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ATI ES1000
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PCI Interface
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32MB DDR memory