Chapter 1: Introduction Congratulations; Hardware Specifications - TYAN THUNDER K8SRE Manual

Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 - Congratulations
You have purchased one of the most powerful server solutions. The Thunder
K8SRE (S2891) is a high-end server mainboard, based on Nvidia nForce
Professional 2200 Media and Communications Processor (MCP) and AMD
8131 PCI-X HyperTransport™ Tunnel.
Designed to support up to two AMD Opteron™ (200 series) processors and
16GB of DDR400 memory, the S2891 is ideal for CPU, memory, and network
intensive applications required in the HPC and clustering applications.

1.2 - Hardware Specifications

Processors
•Two uPGA 940-pin ZIF sockets
•Two onboard 4-phase VRM
•Supports one or two AMD
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Opteron processors
•Scalable 32bit and 64bit
computing
•Integrated 144-bit DDR memory
controller (128bit+16bit ECC)
Chipset
•Nvidia nForce Professional 2200
(CrushK8-04 Pro)
•AMD 8131™ PCI-X Tunnel
•Winbond W83627HF Super I/O
•Analog Devices ADT7463
Hardware Monitoring IC
Memory
•128-bit dual channel memory bus
•Total Eight DDR DIMM sockets
(Four per CPU)
•Supports up to 16GB Registered
DDR
•Supports ECC and Chipkill
•Supports DDR400
Integrated Video Controller
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•ATI
RAGE XL PCI VGA w/8MB
onboard memory
Integrated LAN Controllers
•One Broadcom
Port GbE
- Connected to PCI-X bus A
(133MHz)
- Two RJ-45 LAN connectors with
LEDs
- Two front panel LED headers
Integrated Enhanced IDE
Controller
•Two IDE dual-drive ports for up to
four EIDE devices
•Supports for ATA-133 IDE drives
and ATAPI devices
System Management
• Total ten 3-pin fan headers with
PWM support
- Seven fan headers with
tachometer
•One 2-pin chassis intrusion hdr
•Temperature, voltage and fan
monitoring
•Port 80h LED 7-segment display
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