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Chapter 1
Introduction
Overview
The Thunder 2500 is a quality, high performance motherboard designed for Intel Pentium
II and Pentium III microprocessors. This motherboard utilizes the ServerWorks ServerSet
III HE and can support CPU speeds of 450MHz through 933MHz and host bus speeds of
100MHz to 133MHz (please see Tyans website for up-to-date CPU support informa-
tion).
The motherboard, with built-in AGP Pro slot, provides high performance capabilities that
are ideal for a wide range of demanding applications such as CAD, CAM, CAE, desktop
publishing, 3D animation, and video production.
This integrated high-performance system board is supported in an Extended ATX form
factor. Some of the features included are onboard UltraDMA support, onboard dual
channel Ultra2 SCSI (optional Ultra3 SCSI with LSI Symbios 53C1010 chip), onboard
Creative ES1373 Audio, onboard Intel Ethernet 82559 and onboard high speed I/O,
With I/O and drive controller support built onboard, the one AGP Pro slot, six PCI and
one ISA slots (one shared, seven usable) are free for numerous add-on expansion cards.
Remember to visit TYAN Computers web site at http://www.tyan.com. There you can
find information on all of TYANs products along with FAQs, distributors list, drivers, and
BIOS setting explanations.
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Introduction