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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 K8QSD Pro features support for
Quad AMD Opteron processors, dual channel Gigabit Ethernet, Serial ATA (SATA),
and dual channel U320 SCSI RAID.
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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 AMD Opteron
TM
800
series single core & dual core processors
Four onboard 3-phase VRMs
Integrated 128-bit DDR Memory
Controller
Chipset
AMD-8131
TM
HyperTransport PCI-X
Tunnel
AMD-8111
TM
HyperTransport I/O Hub
Winbond W83627HF Super I/O chip
- Total of 5 Hardware Monitoring ICs (2
ADT7463 and 3 LM63)
Memory
128-bit dual channel memory bus
Total 16 184-pin 2.5 Volt DDR DIMM
sockets
- 4 DIMM slots per CPU
Supports up to 64 GB Reg/ECC DDR
- Supports Chipkill technology
Supports PC2100, PC2700 & PC3200
DDR modules
Supports Single, Dual and Quad Rank
memory solutions
Expansion Slots
Two independent PCI-X buses
Two 64-bit 66/33 MHz (3.3-Volt) PCI-X
slots from PCI-X bridge A
Two 64-bit 133/100/66/33 MHz (3.3-Volt)
PCI-X slots from PCI-X bridge B
One legacy 32-bit 33MHz (5-Volt) PCI
slot
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
Floppy Connector for single FDD
support
Two 9-pin Serial Ports
- 1 Serial Port connector and 1
Serial Port header
One 25-pin Parallel Port header
PS/2 Mouse and Keyboard Ports
4 USB v1.1 Front Panel Headers
- Using AMD-8111 chipset
2 USB v2.0 Rear I/O Ports
- Using VIA VT6212 chipset
System Management
Total nine 3-pin fan headers with
tachometer monitoring
Four fan headers with (PWM) speed
control
One 2-pin Chassis Intrusion header
Temperature, voltage and fan
monitoring
Integrated PCI Graphics
ATI
Rage
TM
XL PCI graphics
controller
8MB Frame Buffer of video
memory
