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Chapter 1: Introduction
Congratulations
You are now the owner of the ideal solution for rackmount servers, large computer
clusters, or pedestal server needs. The Tyan Thunder K8QW features support for
Quad AMD Opteron processors, dual channel Gigabit Ethernet, Serial ATA (SATA).The
Thunder K8QW also offers the option to upgrade to eight-level processing capabilities
through use of HT4881 and M4881 add-on modules.
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.
Hardware Specifications
Processor
Quad
µ
PGA 940-pin ZIF sockets
Supports up to four Single/Dual Core
AMD Opteron
TM
800 series processors
Four onboard 4-phase VRMs
Integrated 128-bit DDR Memory
controller
Chipset
NVIDIA CrushK8-04 Professional
AMD-8131
TM
HyperTransport I/O Hub
Winbond W83627HF Super I/O chip
Three Analog Devices ADT7468
Hardware Monitoring IC
Memory
128-bit dual channel memory bus
Sixteen 184-pin DDR DIMM sockets
(Four per CPU)
Supports up to 64 GB Reg/ECC DDR
Supports DDR266, DDR333, or DDR400
Supports Single/Dual and Quad Rank
memory
Expansion Slots
Two x16 PCI Express slot, one with x4
signals
Two independent 64-bit PCI-X buses
z
One 133 MHz max 3.3V PCI-X slot
from Bridge B
z
Two 100 MHz max 3.3V PCI-X slots
from Bridge A
Total of five usable slots
Integrated Enhanced IDE
Controller
Provides two IDE dual-drive ports
for up to four EIDE devices
Supports for UDMA 33/66/100/133
IDE drives and ATAPI compliant
devices
Integrated I/O
One floppy connector supports up to
two drives
Two 9-pin serial ports (one
connector and one header) and One
25-pin parallel port pin-header
Eight USB 2.0 EHCI ports (two rear
connectors & three headers with two
ports each)
PS/2 mouse and keyboard
connectors
System Management
Modular BMC 2x25pin header for
SMDC support
Ten 4-pin fan headers support
tachometer monitoring and smart
FAN control (PWM)
Temperature and voltage
monitoring
One 2-pin Chassis Intrusion header
Port 80h LED display
