Tiger MP S2460 5

Chapter 1: Introduction

1.1 Congratulations!

The Tyan Tiger MP™ is a direct descendent of the Thunder K7, the most criticall y acclaim ed and deco-
rated system board in the history of Tyan. Aimed directly at the power-user and enthu siast market, the
Tiger MP is a high performance workstation platform desi gned for development and performance applica-
tions that require the power of dual AMD Athlon™ MP proc essors. This p latfo rm ut ilizes t he A MD-760 ™
MP chipset and can support CPU speeds greater than 1.0+GHz and front side bus speed s of 200 MHz or
266 MHz. Please see Tyan’s website for updates and information concerning CPU information and sup-
port:

http://www.tyan.com

This integrated performance board is supported in an ATX form factor. Features of the Tiger MP include
onboard UltraDMA-100/66/33, and multiple boot optio ns.
With both I/O and drive controller support onboard, the one 2x/4x mode AGP slot, four 64 /32-bit 33M Hz
PCI slots, and two 32-bit 33MHz PCI slots are free for numerous types of add-on expansion cards. The
four 184-pin DDR DIMM sockets can support up to 3GB of PC1600/2100 registered DDR SDRAM.
Remember to visit Tyan’s website at http://www.tyan.com. There you can find information on all of
Tyan’s products with FAQs, distributors list, and BIOS settings explanations.
NOTE: See PAGE 28 for recommendations and details of power supply info rmation an d installa-
tion.

You are now the owner of the world’s first dual AMD processor platform!

- CONSUMER EDITION!

* Indicates an optional feature, may not be available on most Tiger M P models