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Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 - Congratulations
You have purchased one of the most powerful server solutions. The Thunder
n3600M (S2932) is a flexible AMD64 platform for multiple applications, based
on NVIDIA nForce Pro3600 and SMSC DME5017 chipsets.
Designed to support AMD
®
uPGA 1207-pin ZIF L1 socket processors and 64GB
DDRII-667 memory, the S2932 with integrated Dual Gigabit Ethernet LAN, built-
in 32MB DDR video memory and six serial ATA ports, is ideal for CPU, memory,
and video intensive applications such as CAD, Graphics Design, and High
Bandwidth Video Editing, etc.
Remember to visit TYAN’s Website at http://www.TYAN.com
. There you can
find information on all of TYAN’s products with FAQs, online manuals and BIOS
upgrades.
1.2 - Hardware Specifications
Processor
•Two uPGA 1207-pin ZIF L1
sockets
•Supports up to two AMD
Opteron
TM
Rev. F 2000 Series
Santa Rosa Dual core
processors, and Barcelona Quad
core processors
•Integrated 128-bit DDR memory
controller
Expansion Slots
•Two (2) x16 PCI Express with x8
bandwidth
•Three (3) PCI-X slots
•One (1) 32-bit, 33MHz PCI v2.3
slots
•Total six (6) usable expansion
slots
Chipset
•nVIDIA nForce Pro 3600
•NEC nPD720400
•SMSC DME5017
•LSI 1068E
Integrated I/O Interfaces
• One (1) floppy connector
• One (1) IDE connector
• Six (6) SATA ports
• Eight (8) SAS ports
• Four (4) USB2.0 ports (2 at rear, 2
via cable)
• Two (2) COM port (1 at rear, 1 via
cable)
• Tyan 2x9 front-panel pin header
• Tyan 2x7 pin header (2.0mm) for
FAN tachometer and PWM
• 2x25 IPMI pin header
Integrated 2D/3D PCI Graphics
• ATI ES1000 PCI graphics
controller
• 32MB DDR Frame Buffer of video
memory
Integrated IDE
• One (1) ATA IDE slot for two IDE
devices
• Support for ATA-133/100/66/33
IDE drives and ATAPI compliant
devices