Tyan Computer TYAN S1471 user manual Introduction

1. Introduction

1.1 Overview

The S1471 is a quality, high performance mainboard designed forl Intel Pentium microprocessors. This mainboard utilizes the Intel 430VX chipset and can support CPU speeds of 75MHz through 200MHz. S1470 will also support the CyrixM1/6x86 CPU's and the Intel multimedia Pentium P55C which utilizes MMX commands.

The S1471's PCI Local Bus provides high performance capabilities that are ideal for a wide range of demanding applications such as: CAD, CAM, CAE, networking, multi-user environments, database management, desktop publishing, image processing and 3D animation.

This integrated system board achieves high reliability with numerous features and yet is small enough to be supported in a "Baby-AT" form- factor. Some of the features included are: on-board dual channel PCI PIO and DMA IDE, on-board floppy controller, on-board high speed I/O, and support for pipeline-burst SRAM.

Flexibility and expandibility have been designed into the S1471. With I/O and drive controller support built on-board, the five PCI and four ISA (One ISA and one PCI as a shared slot) slots are free for numerous add- on expansion cards.

Remember to take a look at Tyan Computers web site located at http://www.tyan.com. Here you can find information on all of Tyan's products along with FAQ's, distributors list, drivers and CMOS setting explanations. If you have a tech support question please contact us at www.tyan.com.

Notice

This board uses the Intel 430VX chipset. According to Intel , the USB function in this chipset is not guaranteed. Compatibility tests cannot be conducted for USB at this time due to no availability of such devices and drives. Please log on to the Tyan web page for the latest infomation.

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