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Introduction

Extensively for HPC, EDA, various high cluster simulations and digital rendering, the Thunder n3600QE (S4980) can fully support up to four quad-core AMD Opteron™ 8000 Series Processors (Socket 1207). Additional features include 16 DDR2 667/533/400 DIMMs of Reg. ECC memory, nVIDIA nForce Pro 3600 chipset, six SATA ports with RAID 0/1/10/5 support, a build-in XGI graphic, one PCI-E slot for expansion, SMDC IPMI2.0 (optional) and dual GbE all in a E-ATX form factor.

Specifications

Processor
• Quad 1207-pin ZIF sockets support up to (4) AMD Opteron™ (Rev.F) 8000 series processors
• Up to 1.0GHz Hyper-Transport link support

Chipset
• nVIDIA nVidia nForce Pro 3600 (MCP55 Pro)
• SMSC SCH5017

Memory
• Dual memory channels
• Up to (16) DDR 2 667/533/400 DIMMs
• Up to 64GB of reg, ECC memory
• Support 4-rank memory DIMMs

Expansion Slots
• (1) PCI-E x16 slot (2nd slot, 2x controller)
• Total of one usable expansion slot

Integrated I/O Interfaces
• (1) IDE connector
• (2) USB 2.0 Ports (via cable)
• (1) COM port (via cable)
• Tyan 2x 9 pin fan header (for Tyan barebone)
• Tyan 2x 6 pin front-panel header
• Tyan 2x 25 pin SMDC header
• ID LED header
• SMDC Warning LED header

Back Panel I/O Ports
(share I/O shield of S3970)
• Stacked PS/2 Mouse & Keyboard ports
• (1) Double-decked USB 2.0 port
• (1) COM1 connector
• (1) 15 -pin VGA port
• (2) Side-by-side RJ4510/100/1000 Base-T ports with link/activity LED

Integrated PCI IDE
• Single channel master mode supports up to two IDE devices
• Support ATA-133/100/66/33 IDE drives & ATAPI compliant devices Integrated Serial ATA-II
• (3) Serial ATA-II Host controllers embedded
• Up to (6) serial ATA-II ports running at 3.0Gb/s per direction per channel
• Serial ATA II specification compliant
• nVidia MediaShield™ supports for RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5, JBOD
• HDD LED Support (TYFP header)

Integrated PCI Graphics
• XGI Volari Z7 (XG20)
• 16MB frame buffer memory

System Management
• SMSC SCH5017 w/ 3xEMC6D103
• (4) CPU Fan & (4) 4-pin system Fan headers, w/ tachometer input and auto fan control
• Temperature & voltage monitoring
• Watchdog timer support
• Port 80 code display LED

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
• 2-pin warning LED

Integrated LAN Controllers
• (2) NFP3600 integrated MAC w/ (2) Marvell 88E1116 single port Gigabit Ethernet PHY
• Integrated TCP offload Engine (TOE)
• IEEE802.3 compliant, WOL/PXE support
• Front panel LAN LED support (TYFP2 header)

BIOS
• AMI BIOS 8 Mbit Flash
• Supports ACPI 2.0
• PnP, DMI2.0, WfM2.0 Power Management
• ACPI S1, S4, S5 support

Power
• EPS 12V power w/ 24+8+4(+4) power connectors
• (1) extra 2x2 power connector to support next-generation SSI PSU
• Onboard 5-phase digital VRD

Form Factor
• Extended ATX footprint (13" x 12")
(13" x 12” // 330.2 mm x 304.8mm)

Regulatory
• FCC Class B and CE (Declaration of Conformity)