TYAN S3870, Manual

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Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 - Congratulations
You have purchased one of the most powerful server solutions. The Tiger
K8SSA (S3870) is a high-end server motherboard, based on ServerWorks
BCM5785 (HT-1000) core-logic chipset. It also includes the NS PC87417
Super I/O and SMSC EMC6D 103 Hardware Monitoring chipsets.
Designed to support up to two AMD Opteron™ (200 series) processors and
12GB of DDR400/333 memory. The S3870 is ideal for CPU, memory, and
network intensive applications required in the HPC and clustering applications.
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
•
Two uPGA 940-pin ZIF sockets
•
Supports up to two AMD
Opteron
TM
200 Series processors
(including dual core processors)
•
Integrated 128-bit DDR memory
controller
Chipset
•
ServerWorks BCM5785 (HT-1000)
core-logic
•
NS PC87417 Super I/O
Memory
•
128-bit dual channel memory bus
•
Six 184-pin DDR DIMM sockets
(four from CPU1 and two from
CPU2)
•
Supports PC2100/2700/3200
•
Registered, ECC/Non-ECC
module supported
•
Single/Dual/Quad-Rank memory
supported
Integrated Video Controller
•
XGI Volari Z7 (XG20)
•
16MB frame buffer memory
Integrated ATA-100
•
One ATA-100 Channel for up to
two ATA-100 devices
Integrated SATA Controllers
•
Supports four SATA ports at 1.5
Gb/s with NCQ
•
RAID 0/1/10 supported
Integrated LAN Controllers
•
Two Intel i82541 PI GbE LAN
controllers
-Operating on PCI 32-bit/33MHz
bus
-With ASF 2.0/WfM/Teaming
support