Tyan Tiger K8WE S2877 Motherboard

TYAN Updated: 2009-01-29 RSS
Tyan Tiger K8WE S2877 Motherboard

Founded on NVIDIA nForce™ Professional core-logic, the Tiger K8WE (S2877) delivers efficiency and performance with 64-bit scalable technology, support for Dual Core AMD Opteron™ 200 series processors, a Direct Connect Architecture for low bus latency communications, all of which offer the promise of lightning-fast processing speeds for your workstation and server applications. The Tiger K8WE (S2877) also features built-in AC'97 audio; an option for built-in server graphics; Serial ATA-II RAID, and up to (2) Gigabit Ethernet network ports. All of this in an ATX form factor, made to fit a large number of widely-available chassis enclosures from popular manufacturers worldwide.

Processor
- Supports two AMD Opteron™ 2xx processors Two onboard 4-phase VRMs
- µPGA 940-pin socket

Chipset
- nVIDIA CrushK8-04 Professional
- Winbond W83627HF Super I/O
- Analog Devices (1) ADT7468 Hardware Monitoring

Memory
- 128-bit dual channel memory bus
- Six 184-pin DDR DIMM sockets (four from CPU0 and two from CPU1)
- Supports up to 24GB registered DDR memory
- Supports ECC type memory modules
- Supports DDR-266/333/400 DIMMs
- Supports Single/Dual/Quad Rank mem. modules

Expansion Slots (total of six usable slots)
- Two x16 PCI Express slot (one with x16 signals and one with x4 signals)
- Four 32-bit, 33MHz PCI v2.3 slots

Integrated I/O Interfaces
- One floppy connector supports up to two drives
- One 25-pin parallel port;
- Four USB v2.0 ports (via cable)
- One COM port (via cable)
- Tyan 2 x 9 front-panel pin header

Back Panel I/O Ports
- Stacked PS/2 mouse and keyboard ports
- One 15-pin VGA port (G2NR)
- One 9-pin Serial port
- Two stacked RJ45 with two USB 2.0 ports (G2NR)
- One stacked RJ45 with two USB 2.0 ports (ANRF)
- Stacked two USB v2.0 ports (ANRF)
- Stacked Mic-in/Line-in/Line-out audio jacks

System Management
- Five fan headers support tachometer monitoring, three of 4-pin fans support smart FAN control (PWM)
- Temperature and voltage monitoring

Integrated Serial ATA Controller
- Two integrated dual port SATA-II controllers
- Supports up to four SATA-II drives; 3.0 Gb/sec.
- Supports four independent SATA ports
- SATA RAID 0, 1, 0+1 and JBOD

Integrated ATA-133
- Two ATA-133 Ch. for up to four ATA-133 devices

Integrated PCI IDE
- Single ch. master mode supports two IDE devices
- Support for ATA-133/100/66/33 IDE drives and ATAPI compliant devices

Integrated LAN Controllers
- One Broadcom BCM5705 GbE LAN (G2NR): One RJ-45 LAN connector with LEDs; One front panel LED header.
- One Marvell 88E1111 GbE PHY: One RJ-45 LAN connectors with LEDs; One front panel LED header

Integrated PCI 1394a (ANRF)
- IEEE 1394 controller TSB43AB22A
- Two IEEE 1394a pin headers

Integrated Audio (ANRF)
- Realtek ALC655 6-channel CODEC
- Stacked Mic-in/Line-in/Line-out audio jacks
- 2 x 5 pin header for front panel audio connector
- CD-in connector; Aux-in connector

Integrated PCI Graphics (G2NR)
- ATI® RAGE XL™ PCI graphics controller
- 8MB Frame Buffer of video memory

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

Power
- EPS 12V Power Supply
- EPS 12V/SSI v3.5 (24 + 8) power connectors

Form Factor
- ATX footprint (12" x 9.75"; 305mm x 248mm)