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Author: Michael (Oreo) Falcon
Subject: Motherboard
Manufacturer: Tyan
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Tyan is gearing up production of the newest member of their dual AMD platform line the Thunder K7X. The Thunder K7X is, like it's predecessor, the Thunder K7, a dual AMD platform aimed at the high-end server/workstation market. Sporting the latest revision of the AMD MPX chipset the Thunder K7X incorporates all the performance features of the Thunder K7 and reaches for new heights with increased throughput for I/O-bound applications. The addition of a 66mhz 64-bit PCI bus allows the Thunder K7X to support two high-speed PCI devices such as Fibre Channel storage or Gigabit Ethernet controllers. This new feature makes the Thunder K7X ideal for I/O-intensive server and workstation applications with over one gigabyte per second of I/O headroom. Other features include integrated dual 3com LAN ports, ATI Rage XL Video, angled memory slots allowing utilization in a low profile form factor. The Thunder K7X comes in two flavors, the S2468GN which supports all integrated features listed above and the S2468UGN which also has an integrated Adaptec AIC-7899W Dual-channel Ultra 160 SCSI controller.
Recently we received a Tyan Thunder K7X (S2468GN) non-SCSI platform, which we have been testing for a week now. So let's take a look and see what we have found out about Tyan's latest platform the Thunder K7X.
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| -Memory pc133 | |
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| -nVidia video cards | |
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AMD Motherboards
XP:nForce2,VIA KT600
Opteron: nForce3, AMD8000
64: nForce3, AMD8000, K8T
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Intel Motherboards
Latest Chipset: 875P
w/Graphics: 865G
VIA: P4X
ATI: 9100 IGP
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