Chapter 1: Introduction

1.1 - Congratulations

You have purchased one of the most powerful entry-level workstation solutions in the Tyan Tiger K8WE (S2877) which is based on the 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 which demand the highest level of performance from the CPU, memory and video sub-systems.

1.2 - Hardware Specifications

Processor

Supports one or two AMD Opteron™ 2xx processors

Two onboard 4-phase VRMs

Dual HyperTransportTM 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 DDR

Supports ECC with CHIPKill technology

Supports DDR400, DDR333, or DDR266

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, 5 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

Full Duplex Gigabit Ethernet support

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