Tyan Thunder K8WE S2895 Motherboard

TYAN Updated: 2009-01-29 RSS
Tyan Thunder K8WE S2895 Motherboard

Answering the call for more power to meet the demands of customer applications, the Thunder K8WE (S2895) delivers new heights of performance never before available in the workstation market. Based on the NVIDIA nForce™ Professional 2200 and 2050 core-logic solutions, the Thunder K8WE (S2895) also features support for dual AMD Opteron™ 200 series processors with 32-bit and 64-bit power, Dual PCI Express x16 slots with FULL SPEED x16 lanes on each slot to support NVIDIA SLI™ technology at unprecedented speeds. Other features such as USB 2.0, FireWire, Serial ATA-II with NVRAID™, audio, and NVIDIA nTune™ support, the Thunder K8WE (S2895) provides speed and capabilities for next generation worksation systems.

Processor
- Dual µPGA 940-pin ZIF sockets
- Two onboard 4-phase VRM
- Supports up to two AMD Opteron™ 200 processors
- Three HyperTransport™ links support up to 8.0GB/s data transfer rate each link
- 144-bit DDR interface (128-bit data + 16 bit ECC)
- Scalable 32bit & 64bit computing
- Secure computing with Nx register support
- Supports Single and Dual Core processors

Chipset
- AMD-8131™ HyperTransport™ PCI-X Tunnel
- NVIDIA nForce Professional 2200 (CK8-04)
- NVIDIA nForce Professional 2050 (I/O-4) Connected to CPU 2
- SMsC Super I/O

Memory
- 128-bit dual channel (interleaved) memory bus
- Total of eight DDR DIMM sockets (four per CPU)
- Supports up to 32GB of Registered DDR
- Supports Single/Dual/Quad Rank mem. modules
- Supports DDR 266/333/400 memory
- Supports ECC with CHIPKILL technology

Expansion Slots (total of six usable slots)
- Two x16 PCI Express FULL SPEED slots: Slot1 PCI-E x16 from nForce™ Prof. 2200; Slot3 PCI-E x16 from nForce™ Prof. 2050
- Two independent 64-bit PCI-X buses: Slot 4 & 5: PCI-X 100 MHz max. (Bridge B); Slot 6: PCI-X 133 MHz max. (Bridge A)
- One 32-bit 33MHz PCI v2.3 (Slot 2)

Integrated I/O
- One floppy connector
- One serial port connector
- Eight USB 2.0 EHCI ports (four rear connectors and four pin headers)
- PS/2 mouse and keyboard connectors
- Two FireWire (IEEE 1394a) ports (one rear connector and 1 internal pin header)

System Management
- Total of six 4-pin fan headers with PWM and tachometer monitoring
- Temperature, voltage and fan monitoring

Integrated ATA-133
- One ATA-133 IDE Channel for up to two devices

Integrated FireWire (IEEE 1394a)
- TI TSB43AB22A IEEE 1394a PCI controller
- One rear FireWire port

Integrated Audio
- Enhanced AC'97 2.3 compliant audio link
- Analog Devices 1981B codec
- 16-bit stereo full-duplex
- CD-in/Aux-in connectors

Integrated SCSI Controller (option)
- LSI 53C1030 U320 SCSI controller: Two U320 68-pin SCSI connectors; Connected to PCI-X Bridge B

Integrated SATA II Controller
- Two integrated dual port SATA II controllers
- Four SATA connectors: up to four drives
- Supports 3.0Gb/s per port
- NvRAID™ v2.0 support
- RAID 0, 1, 0 + 1

Integrated Secure Network Processor
- Two IEEE 802.3 Nvidia MAC 1000/100/10 Ethernet (1st from nForce™ Prof. 2200, 2nd from nForce Prof. 2050)
- Supports WOL and PXE
- Supports Ethernet Jumbo Frames (9018 Bytes)
- Full Duplex Gigabit Ethernet support

BIOS
- Phoenix BIOS on 8Mbit LPC Flash ROM
- Supports ACPI 2.0 and SRAT
- SMBIOS 2.3.1 BBS 1.1 Compliant
- USB device boot
- WOL and PXE support
- 48-bit LBA Support

Form Factor
- SSI EEB v3.5 footprint (12"x13"; 304.8x330.2mm)
- EPS12V/SSI 3.51 Workstation (24 + 8) power connectors (Split Plane design recommended)
- Serial (one) connector
- Two dual port USB 2.0 connectors (total 4 ports)
- Stacked PS/2 keyboard and mouse connectors
- Two RJ-45 LAN connectors with LEDs
- Audio Line-in, Line-out, Mic-in jacks
- One IEEE 1394a port