Tyan Thunder K8QE S4885 Motherboard

TYAN Updated: 2009-01-29 RSS
Tyan Thunder K8QE S4885 Motherboard

Developed and bred for pure processing performance, the high-powered Thunder K8QE (S4885) features support for between four (4) or eight (8) AMD Opteron™ 800 series processors with Dual Core and AMD64 technology, and up to thirty-two (32) Registered DDR400/333 memory modules. Imagine the breath-taking computing speeds and immense bandwidth that you'll experience with features like four (4) PCI Express x16 slots, built-in three (3) Gigabit Ethernet ports, SATA RAID, remote management options and much more. For the kind of computing muscle needed to run your toughest numerical crunching and simulation processing applications, check out the Thunder K8QE (S4885) from Tyan!

Processor
- Quad µPGA 940-pin ZIF sockets
- Up to four AMD Opteron™ 800 series processors
- Four onboard 4-phase VRMs

Chipset
- NVIDIA nForce Professional 2200 (CK804pro)
- NVIDIA nForce Professional 2050 (IO4)
- Winbond™ W83627HF Super I/O ASIC
- Three Analog Devices ADT7468 Hardware
- Monitoring IC

Memory
- 128-bit dual channel memory bus
- Sixteen 184-pin DDR DIMM sockets (4 per CPU)
- Supports up to 64GB of Registered DDR mem.
- Supports ECC type memory modules
- Supports four rank memory modules
- Supports DDR 400 / 333 / 266 memory

Expansion Slots (Total of five usable slots)
- Two x16 PCI Express slots with x16 signal
- Two x16 PCI Express slots with x4 signal
- One 32bit/33MHz PCI v2.3 slot

Integrated I/O
- One floppy connector supports up to two drives
- One parallel port header and two serial ports (one connector, one header)
- Eight USB 2.0 EHCI ports (two rear connectors & six headers)
- PS/2 mouse and keyboard connectors

System Management
- Modular BMC 2x25pin header for SMDC support
- Six 4-pin fan headers support tachometer monitoring & smart FAN control (PWM), four 3-pin fan headers support tachometer monitoring
- Temperature and voltage fan monitoring
- Port 80h LED display

Integrated LAN Controllers
- Two Marvell® 88E1111 GbE PHY: Each one has RJ-45 LAN connector with LEDs; Each one has front panel LED header
- One Intel 82541PI GbE LAN controller: RJ-45 LAN connector with LED

Integrated PCI Graphics
- XGI Volari™ Z7 (XG20); PCI interface
- 16MB DDR memory

Integrated ATA-133
- Two ATA-133 Channels for up to four
- ATA-133 devices

Integrated SATA Controller
- Four Integrated dual port SATA-II Controllers (Two from CK804pro and two from IO4)
- Supports up to eight SATA-II drives
- Supports up to 3.0Gb/s
- Supports four independent SATA-II ports
- Supports RAID 0, 1, 0+1

Intelligent Platform Management Interface Header
- TYAN Server Management Daughter card (optional) supports features listed below via IPMI header (SMDC/TSO Support)
- Renesas Baseboard Management Controller (BMC); tailored for IPMI 2.0 Spec.
- Supports KCS and BT styles
- Flexible Windows & Linux Management Solution
- Supports RMCP and SNMP protocols
- Supports ASF standard and EMP
- I2C serial multi-master controllers and UARTs
- Build-in IPMB connector
- Remote power on/off and reset support (IPMI-over-LAN)

BIOS
- Phoenix BIOS on 8Mbit LPC Flash ROM
- ACPI 2.0
- Serial Console Redirect
- USB device boot
- 48-bit LBA Support
- Power management: S0, S1, S4, and S5

Form Factor
- SSI MEB footprint (13"x16"; 330.2x406.4mm)
- EPS12V/SSI v3.5(24 + 8 + 8) power connectors
- Serial (one) and VGA (one) connectors
- Stacked USB 2.0 connectors
- Stacked PS/2 keyboard and mouse connectors
- Three RJ-45 LAN connectors with LEDs