User Guide

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Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 - Congratulations
You have purchased one of the most powerful entry-level workstation solutions
in the Tyan Tiger K8WE (S2877) which is based on the NVIDIA nForce(tm)
Professional Media and Communications Processor (MCP).
Designed to support up to two AMD Opteron(tm) 200 series processors, and up
to 24GB of Registered DDR400 memory. The S2877 is ideal for video and
graphics development applications which demand the highest level of
performance from the CPU, memory and video sub-systems.
1.2 - Hardware Specifications
Processor
• Supports one or two AMD
Opteron™ 2xx processors
• Two onboard 4-phase VRMs
• Dual HyperTransport
TM
links between
two CPU, support up to 6.4GB/s data
transfer rate each link
• 144-bit DDR interface (128-bit data +
16 bit ECC)
• Scalable 32bit and 64bit computing
• Secure computing with Nx register
support
Chipset
• Nvidia nForce Professional 2200
(CK8-04)-connected to CPU1
• Winbond W83627HF Super I/O
• One Analog Device
ADT7468 Hardware Monitoring IC
Memory
•128-bit dual channel (interleaved)
memory bus
•Total Six DDR-1 DIMM sockets (Four
for CPU1&Two for CPU2)
• Supports up to 24GB Registered DDR
• Supports ECC with CHIPKill
technology
• Supports DDR400, DDR333, or
DDR266
Integrated ATA-133
(from nForce
Professional 2200)
• Two ATA-133 IDE Channel for up to
four devices
Integrated SATAII Generation 1
Controllers
(from nForce
Professional 2200)
• Two integrated dual port SATA II
controllers
• Four SATA connectors support up to
four drives
• 3 Gb/s per direction per channel
• NvRAID v2.0 support
• Supports RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5 and
JBOD
Integrated LAN Controller
•One Broadcom
®
BCM5705 GbE LAN
controller (G2NR version only)
- One RJ-45 LAN connector with LEDs
- One front panel LED headers
• One Marvell
®
88E1111 GbE PHY
- One RJ-45 LAN connectors with
LEDs
- One front panel LED headers
• Supports WOL and PXE
• Full Duplex Gigabit Ethernet support