Chapter 1: Introduction

1.1 - Congratulations

You have purchased one of the most powerful server solutions available. The Thunder n3600R (S2912) is a high-end server motherboard, based on the NVIDIA NPF3600 chipset. It also includes the Winbond W83627HF Super IO and Analog Devices ADT7476 Hardware Monitoring chipsets.

This motherboard is designed to support two AMD Opteron RevF 2000 Series processors and up to 32GB of DDR2 400/533/667 memory. The S2912 is ideal for high-density performance serving and clustering, data center and IT infrastructure development. The S2912 is also ideal for multi-node rendering and processing, web and business application serving, Large-scale visual simulations.

Remember to visit TYAN’s website at http://www.tyan.com. There you can find information on all of TYAN’s products with FAQs, online manuals and BIOS upgrades.

1.2 - Hardware Specifications

Processors

•Dual 1207-pin ZIF sockets

•Supports up to two AMD Opteron RevF 2000 Series processors

•Two onboard 4-phase digital VRMs

Chipset

•NVIDIA NPF3600

•Winbond W83627HF Super IO

•Analog Devices ADT7476 Hardware Monitoring IC

Integrated I/O

•One floppy connector supports up to two drives

•One IDE connector supports up to two ATA 133 devices

•One parallel port header and one serial port

•Eight USB 2.0 EHCI ports (two rear connectors and six headers)

Onboard SAS Controller (for

S2912WG2NR only)

•LSI 1064E SAS controller

•Four SAS ports

Memory

•Dual-channel memory bus

•Eight DDR2 sockets (four per CPU)

•Supports ECC Registered DIMMs

•Maximum of 32GB DDR2- 400/533/667

Integrated Network Processor

•Two GbE via Marvell PHY 88E1121

•Supports WOL and PXE

•Two RJ-45 ports with LEDs

Integrated SATA Controllers

•Three Integrated dual port SATA Controllers from NFP3600

•Supports up to 6 SATA drives

•Supports up to 3.0Gb/s

•Supports 4 independent SATA ports

•Supports RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5, JBOD-

Integrated Video Controller

•ATI ES1000

•PCI Interface

•32MB DDR memory

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Tyan Computer S2912 warranty Introduction, Congratulations, Hardware Specifications