Tyan, a long-time supporter of Phoronix and a manufacturer of many leading workstation/server-oriented motherboards, recently sent out their Thunder n6650EX motherboard. This motherboard is a slight redesign of their earlier Thunder n6550EX product, but with out of the box support for AMD’s 45nm Opteron CPUs. The Thunder n6650EX is capable of handling four quad-core processors, up to 128GB of ECC Registered DDR2 system memory, dual PCI Express x16, and six Serial ATA 2.0 ports. In this article we are offering a preview of the Tyan Thunder n6650EX (S4992).
The Tyan Thunder n6650EX has four CPU sockets for use with AMD’s Socket F (1207) processors. The motherboard and its current BIOS are compliant with AMD CPUs up through the latest AMD 45nm Quad-Core Opterons in the 8300 series. This motherboard, however, is not compatible with the Opteron 2300 series. The Thunder n6650EX supports a 4.4GT/s HyperTransport interconnect link as well as AMD Dual Dynamic Power Management (DDPM).
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