Tyan Unleashes New Tiger Motherboard

Fremont, Calf.-based Tyan Computer recently unveiled the Tiger i7501R (S2735), a highly integrated, dual Intel Xeon processor motherboard designed for pedestal, midrange 1U and 2U and rackmount server applications.

The Tiger i7501R is based on the 533MHz Intel E7501 chipset and features dual serial ATA controller slots with RAID (0, 1). The board also incorporates a SO-DIMM slot, which accommodates an optional SCSI card. The main board houses an ATI RAGE XL graphics controller, plus dual Gigabit ports, a single Fast Ethernet portand six DIMM slots for a maximum of 12 Gbytes of registered ECC DDR266/200 SDRAM. Two PCI bus master channels are included, so up to four IDE devices can be supported.

The board's 533MHz system bus enables it to incorporate Intel's Netburst microarchitecture and hyperthreading technology, which improves performance in server applications and multitasking environments.

The board costs $449 and has been certified to work in several third-party chassis with different feature sets and price points, so it's an excellent solution for customers whose database, groupware or Web server applications must evolve and grow. The Tiger i7501R provides flexibility in system component options and value and has additional practical features, such as a memory-slot orientation designed for optimal air flow.

The Tiger i7501R boasts flexibility in system components, value and some practical features.

In high-density server environments, server management is critical to ensure high availability and ease of maintenance. That's why Tyan incorporated QLogic's Zircon baseboard management controller, a server management console which can remotely monitor hardware and take inventory of system voltage, fan speed and CPU temperature.

The Zircon architecture provides maximum design flexibility by incorporating a 32-bit RISC microprocessor with support for large addressable memory space. The built-in CPU provides the additional power needed to support demanding system management applications.

Once the motherboard was secured in a pedestal-type chassis, engineers populated it with dual Xeon Pentium 4 3.06GHz processors, 12 Gbytes of registered ECC DDR266 SDRAM and two Seagate Barracuda V 120-Gbyte SATA drives with a RAID 0 setup. Installation was seamless and posed no problems due to Tyan's highly-integrated design.