Chapter 1: Introduction Congratulations; Hardware Specifications - TYAN TOMCAT K8E Manual

Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 - Congratulations
You have purchased one of the most powerful server solutions. The Tomcat
K8E (S2865) is a flexible AMD64 platform for multiple applications, based on
nVIDIA nForce4 Ultra and SMSC DME1737 chipsets.
Designed to support AMD
Core™ Opteron™ 100 series 939-pin processors and 4GB DDR 400/333
memory, the S2865 with integrated Dual Gigabit Ethernet LAN, built-in 8MB
®
ATI RAGE XL™ video and four serial ATA ports, is ideal for CPU, memory,
and video intensive applications such as CAD, Graphics Design, and High
Bandwidth Video Editing, etc.
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

Processor
•uPGA 939-pin socket
•Supports 1 AMD Athlon 64, Athlon
64 FX, Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core
and Opteron 100 series 939 pin
CPU
•Up to 1000 MHz Hyper-Transport
link support
Expansion Slots
•One x16 PCI Express connector
for graphics
•Four 32-bit, 33Mhz PCI v2.3 slots
•Two x1 PCI Express interface
•Total seven usable expansion
slots
Chipset
•nVIDIA nForce4 Ultra
•SMSC DME1737
®
Athlon 64™ / Athlon 64 FX™ / Athlon 64 X2 Dual
Integrated 2D/3D PCI Graphics
•ATI
•8MB Frame Buffer of video
Integrated LAN Controllers
•One Broadcom BCM5721 GbE
- Operating at x1 PCI-E interface
- ASF 2.0 support
- Pin headers for front panel LAN
LED
•One nForce4 integrated MAC with
- 32bit PCI v2.3 interface
- IEEE802.3 compliant, WOL/PXE
support
- Pin headers for front panel LAN
LED
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Rage™XL PCI graphics
controller
memory
controller
Marvell 88E1111-CAA Gigabit
Ethernet PHY