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Discontinued Product
- Pros: This board is what I used for a liquid-cooling project.
- Cons: Sadly, upon checking Tyan's site, I found that this has been discontinued. Buyer beware!
- Other Thoughts: The time to have gotten one of these was when the price was only $329. Not anymore.
Support a lot of RAM
- Pros: 16 slots and support 64 G memory. DDR2 4G module is relatively cheap now. 8G module is unreasonable expensive. I believe this probably this is the most cost efficient way to get a lot of RAM. I need a lot of RAM for my work.
- Cons: Only one PCI-E slot. If you want to add 4 processors, you need 8000 series processors.
- Other Thoughts: I have read all previous reviews before I decided to buy this item. It actually can be powered by either Tyan power supply or any power supply with 24pin and 2 P4. Most of the power supplies only have one p4, but you can get a molex to P4 adopt at very cheap price. Be careful, some FB-DIMM RAM does not work with this mother board. You'd better check Tyan website for compatible SDRAM.
Hell at first, but great now!
- Pros: Very stable, rock solid board. I updated to the latest bios to fix a couple documented glitches.
Runs a windows based VMWare server like a champ. With 4 quad core processors average processor load rarely ever jumps above 10% on the 11 VM's currently living on that box. I plan on adding many more VMs down the road.
If I had money to burn, I'd have gotten another one of these and built it into a gaming rig with a dual GPU video board and a high-end usb audio device (it has no onboard audio).
- Cons: I thought I was going nuts over the first two weeks of ownership. First batch of bsods pointed to raid problems, the next batch seemd to point to acpi problems, then bios, then totally random crashes.. By that point I figured I had bad memory or insuff power. It turns out it was just the ram slots. It was hell troubleshooting that and finally getting it running stable. I had to re-seat every chip and push them all in to the point where I was afraid I'd break something with all the force I was using.
The RAID driver image utility that you boot into doesn't create a proper driver floppy for windows. It's missing files. I found a slightly newer version of the driver on the CD and just copied those files to a floppy and everything worked when installing windows.
Raid controller doesn't support arrays larger then 2tb. It may be a driver issue though as the bios shows 2tb+ but Windows only shows the remainder even with the latest drivers
- Other Thoughts: Stick with the drivers it comes with! Things got less stable for me when I updated, plus the latest RAID drivers don't support larger then 2tb raid arrays anyway.
I used this board as a base for a VMWare server I was building. I had 4x1.5tb drives I was going to setup for RAID 5, but due to the issues I mentioned above, I ended up just putting them in a seperate box and making an openfiler SAN with software RAID. (I avoid windows software raid like the plague.) The base OS for the server was win2k3 x64 (not ESXi - I have my reasons).
Now that it's running stable, I'm very pleased and keeping it, but had I known beforehand about the RAID driver issues, I probably wouldn't have bothered making my purchase.
If you buy this, it'll be rock solid with just 3 things in mind:
- Seat the RAM firmly
- Mind the RAID limit
- Avoid upgrading the drivers
| Model |
| Brand |
TYAN |
| Model |
S4980G2NR |
| Supported CPU |
| CPU Socket Type |
Quad 1207(F) |
| CPU Type |
Four AMD Opteron (Rev.F) 8000 series |
| FSB |
Up to 1.0GHz Hyper-Transport link support |
| Chipsets |
| North Bridge |
NVIDIA nForce Professional 3600 |
| Other Chipset |
SMSC SCH5017 |
| Memory |
| Number of DDR2 Slots |
16 x 240Pin |
| DDR2 Standard |
DDR2 667 |
| Maximum Memory Supported |
64GB |
| Channel Supported |
Dual Channel |
| ECC Supported |
Yes |
| Registered |
Yes |
| Expansion Slots |
| PCI Express x16 |
1 x PCI-E x16 slot (2nd slot, 2x controller) |
| Storage Devices |
| PATA |
1 x ATA 133 2 Dev. Max |
| SATA |
6 x SATA 3.0Gb/s |
| SATA RAID |
0/1/0+1/5 JBOD |
| Onboard Video |
| Onboard Video Chipset |
XGI Volari Z7 |
| Onboard LAN |
| LAN Chipset |
Marvell 88E1116 |
| LAN Speed |
10/100/1000Mbps |
| Second LAN Chipset |
Marvell 88E1116 |
| Second LAN Speed |
10/100/1000Mbps |
| Max LAN Speed |
Dual 10/100/1000Mbps |
| Rear Panel Ports |
| PS/2 |
2 |
| COM |
1 |
| Video Ports |
D-Sub |
| USB 1.1/2.0 |
2 x USB 2.0 |
| Physical Spec |
| Form Factor |
Extended ATX |
| Dimensions |
12.0" x 13.0" |
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Reviewed By: Shingoshi on 4/11/2009
Tech Level: high - Ownership: more than 1 year
