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

Integrated ATA-133 (from nForce

•Supports one or two AMD

Professional 2200)

Opteron™ 2xx processors

•Two onboard 4-phase VRMs

Two ATA-133 IDE Channel for up

to four devices

•Dual HyperTransportTM links

Integrated SATAII Generation 1

between two CPU, support up to

6.4GB/s data transfer rate each

Controllers (from nForce

link

Professional 2200)

•144-bit DDR interface (128-bit

•Two integrated dual port SATA II

data + 16 bit ECC)

controllers

•Scalable 32bit and 64bit

•Four SATA connectors support up

computing

to four drives

•Secure computing with Nx register

•3 Gb/s per direction per channel

support

•NvRAID v2.0 support

 

•Supports RAID 0, 1, 0+1 and

Chipset

JBOD

•Nvidia nForce Professional 2200

Integrated LAN Controller

(CK8-04)-connected to CPU1

•Winbond W83627HF Super I/O

•One Broadcom® BCM5705 GbE

•One Analog Device

LAN controller (G2NR version

ADT7468 Hardware Monitoring

only)

IC

- One RJ-45 LAN connector with

 

LEDs

Memory

- One front panel LED headers

•128-bit dual channel (interleaved)

•One Marvell® 88E1111 GbE PHY

memory bus

- One RJ-45 LAN connectors with

•Total Six DDR-1 DIMM sockets

LEDs

(Four for CPU1&Two for CPU2)

- One front panel LED headers

•Supports up to 24GB Registered

•Supports WOL and PXE

 

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