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Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 - Congratulations
You have purchased one of the most powerful entry-level workstation solutions
- the Tyan Tiger K8WE (S2877) - based on NVIDIA nForce(tm) Professional
Media and Communications Processor (MCP).
Designed to support up to two AMD Opteron(tm) 200 series processors, and up
to 24GB of Registered DDR400 memory, the S2877 is ideal for video and
graphics development applications that demand the highest level of
performance from the CPU, memory, and video subsystems.
1.2 - Hardware Specifications
Processor
•Supports one or two AMD
Opteron™ 2xx processors
•Two onboard 4-phase VRMs
•Dual HyperTransport
TM
links
between two CPU, support up to
6.4GB/s data transfer rate each
link
•144-bit DDR interface (128-bit
data + 16 bit ECC)
•Scalable 32bit and 64bit
computing
•Secure computing with Nx register
support
Chipset
•Nvidia nForce Professional 2200
(CK8-04)-connected to CPU1
•Winbond W83627HF Super I/O
•One Analog Device
ADT7468 Hardware Monitoring
IC
Memory
•128-bit dual channel (interleaved)
memory bus
•Total Six DDR-1 DIMM sockets
(Four for CPU1&Two for CPU2)
•Supports up to 24GB Registered
Integrated ATA-133
(from nForce
Professional 2200)
•Two ATA-133 IDE Channel for up
to four devices
Integrated SATAII Generation 1
Controllers
(from nForce
Professional 2200)
•Two integrated dual port SATA II
controllers
•Four SATA connectors support up
to four drives
•3 Gb/s per direction per channel
•NvRAID v2.0 support
•Supports RAID 0, 1, 0+1 and
JBOD
Integrated LAN Controller
•One Broadcom
®
BCM5705 GbE
LAN controller (G2NR version
only)
- One RJ-45 LAN connector with
LEDs
- One front panel LED headers
•One Marvell
®
88E1111 GbE PHY
- One RJ-45 LAN connectors with
LEDs
- One front panel LED headers
•Supports WOL and PXE