Tyan Thunder n3600B S2927 Motherboard

TYAN Updated: 2009-01-30 RSS

A 2P performance server/workstation in an ATX form factor? YES. The Thunder n3600B (S2927) offers support for dual AMD Opteron™ 2000 Series processors, up to (8) DDR2 Registered DIMMs, dual Gigabit Ethernet ports, has built-in audio and video, and support for PCI Express x16 cards in an SLI configuration. Other great features include SATA2/3G with RAID, built-in POST code display and multiple PCI slots for expansion flexibility.

Processor
- Dual 1207-pin ZIF sockets
- Supports up to 2 AMD ® Socket F Opteron 2000 series processors
- Up to 1.0GHz Hyper-Transport link support

Chipset
• nVIDIA NFP3600
• SMSC SCH5017

Memory
- 128-bit Dual channel memory bus
- (8x) 240-pin DDR2 DIMM slots
- Supports memory speeds of 400/533/677/800 MHz
- Supports up to 32GB of Reg/ECC DDR2 memory
- Supports Single, Dual and Quad Rank memory

Expansion Slots
- One x16 PCI Express (PCI-E 1)
- One x 16 PCI-E slot w/ x8 bandwidth (PCI-E 2)
- Three 32-bit, 33MHz PCI v2.3 slots (PCI1~PCI3)
- Total five usable expansion slots

Integrated I/O Interfaces
- One Floppy connector
- Four USB 2.0 Ports (via cable)
- One COM port (via cable)
- Tyan 2 x 9 front-panel pin header

Back Panel I/O Ports (share I/O shield of S2865)
- Stacked PS/2 Mouse & Keyboard ports
- COM1 connector
- One 15 -pin VGA port (S 2927G 2NR only)
- 3 audio jacks(from bottom: line out<green>, line in<blue>, MIC<pink>) (S 2 927A 2NRF only)
- 2 double-decked USB2.0 ports and o ne RJ45 ( 2x Marvell 88E11 16 single port GbE PHy +nVIDIA MAC) 10/100 /1000 Base-T port with link/activity LED

Integrated 2D/3D PCI Graphics (S2927G2NR only)
- XGI Volari Z7 (XG20)
- 16MB frame buffer memory

Integrated Audio (S 2927 A 2NRF only)
- Realtek ALC262 audio CODEC
- HD Audio 1.0 supported.
- 2 x 5 pin header for front panel audio connector
- CD-in connector

Integrated PCI IDE
- Single channel master mode support up to two IDE devices
- Support for ATA- 133/ 100/66/33 IDE drives and ATAPI compliant devices

Integrated Serial ATA II
- Three s erial ATA II Host controllers embedded
- Supports up to 6 Serial ports running at 3.0Gb/s per direction per channel
- Serial ATA II specification compliant
- nVidia MediaShield TM supports for RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5, JBOD
- HDD LED connector

System Management
- SMSC SCH5017 w/ 2x EMC6D103
- 2x CPU FAN & 2 x 4 -pin system Fan headers, w/ tachometer input and w/ auto fan control)
- Temperature and voltage monitoring
- Watchdog timer
- Port 80 code display LED

Integrated LAN Controllers
• Two NFP3600 integrated MAC with Two Marvell 88E11 16 single port Gigabit Ethernet PHY: Integrated TCP offload Engine (TOE); IEEE802.3 compliant, WOL/PXE support; Pin header for front panel LAN LED

Integrated PCI 1394 (S 2927A 2NRF only)
- VIA VT6307/6308 PCI FireWire (1394) controller
- Two 1394 ports (via cable)

Server Management
- M3291, IPMI 2.0 Remote System Mgmt Card: Renesas H8S2167 BMC Controller; BT, KCS, Logging support; IPMI-over-LAN; Remote power on/off and reset; M3291 card is optional

BIOS
- AMI BIOS 8 Mbit Flash
- Supports ACPI 2.0
- PnP, DMI2.0, WfM2.0 Power Management

Power
- EPS 12V support, On board 4 -phase VR D
- Universal 2 4 -pin + 8 -pin power connectors
- 4-pin auxiliary power connector

Form Factor
- ATX footprint, 10.2" x 12.0" (2 59 mm x 305mm )