Tyan Thunder n4250QE S4985 Motherboard

TYAN Updated: 2009-01-29 RSS
Tyan Thunder n4250QE S4985 Motherboard

The Thunder n4250QE (S4985) offers support for AMD Opteron ™ 8000 Series processors for high-level workstation and serving applications. A true monster platform, the S4985 also supports up to (4) PCI Express x16 slots, a PCI slot, SATA2 with RAID, dual Gigabit and single 10/100 Ethernet port, built-in video, and remote management (IPMI 2.0) option, all in a massive SSI MEB (16" x 13") form factor. Add the M4985 for additional 4P configuration, for a total of (8) processors in all!

Processor
- Four 1207-pin sockets support AMD Opteron™ (Rev. F) 8000 series (dual/quad-core) processors
- Uses the standard 3 1/2"/ 89mm socket connector
- Four onboard 5-phase digital VRMs

Chipset
- nVIDIA nForce Professional 2200 (CK804pro)
- nVIDIA nForce Professional 2050 (IO4)
- Winbond W83627HF Super I/O
- Three Analog Devices ADT7476 Hardware Monitoring IC

Memory
- 128-bit Dual channel memory bus
- (16x) 240-pin DDR2 DIMM slots
- Support memory speeds of 400/533/677/800 MHz
- Supports up to 128GB of Reg/ECC DDR2 memory
- Supports Single, Dual and Quad Rank memory

Expansion Slots
- (2) PCI-E x16 slots (with x16 signal)
- (2) PCI-E x16 slots (with x4 signal)
- (1) PCI v2.3 32-bit 33MHz slot
- (5) Usable expansion slots total

Integrated I/O Interfaces
- (1) Floppy connector support up to two drives
- (1) Parallel port header
- (2) Serial ports (one connector, one header)
- (6) USB v2.0 EHCI ports (two rear, four headers)
- (1) Stacked PS/2 mouse and keyboard ports

Integrated PCI Graphics
- XGI Volari Z7™ (XG20) PCI graphics controller
- 16MB Frame Buffer of video memory

Integrated ATA-133
- (2) ATA-133 Channels: up to 4 ATA-133 devices

Integrated Serial ATA Controller
- (4) Dual port SATA controllers (two from CK804pro and two from IO4)
- (8) SATA2 ports for up to eight drives at 3.0Gb/s
- RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5 supported

System Management
- Modular BMC 2x25 pin header for SMDC support
- (6) 4-pin FAN headers support tachometer monitoring & smart FAN control (PWM), four 3-pin fan headers support tachometer monitoring
- Temperature & voltage monitoring
- Port 80h LED display

Integrated LAN Controllers
- (2) Marvell 88E1111 GbE PHY
- Each one has RJ-45 LAN connector w/ LEDs
- Each one has front panel LED header
- (1) Intel 82541PI GbE LAN controller
- RJ-45 LAN connector with LED

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
- Built-in IPMB connector
- Remote power on/off and reset support (IPMI-over-LAN)

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

Form Factor
- SSI MEB footprint (13" x 16")
- EPS12V/SSI v3.5 (24 + 8 + 8) power connectors