Tyan Tempest i 5000XL S2692

Monday, June 12th, 2006 | Motherboards, News

Motherboards are not only for desktop computers and its easy to forget that there is also a huge market for motherboards in areas such as servers.
Motherboards for servers have a much differet focus that those used for desktop computers. The very nature of servers means that they are meeting the needs of many users at the same time, and so need to be designed differently.

More than one processor is very common in order to handle the number of processes created by being accessed by many users at the same time. A large amount of memory is also needed to handle this. Servers have often had more memory than most desktop computers. They also need to be secure, so use of things such as ECC memory help to ensure that nothing gets lost while it is in the computer.

Massive storage space is also common and this motherboard comes with 6 SATA2 slots, allowing for a lrage configuration of drives into an array, with RAID 0, 5 and 10 being supported. There is integrated audio, 4 USB ports and a LAN port for your convenience.

Two Intel LGA771 sockets allow the use of two Intel Xeon Dempsey/Woodcrest processors.

From the Tyan website:

High-end workstation performance comes to the entry-level market with the introduction of the Tempest i5000XL (S2692). Using Intel’s 5000X chipset, the Tempest i5000XL delivers support for (2) Intel® Xeon® 5000 and 5100 sequence processors; FBDIMM support; dual PCI Express x16 slots for SLI capability, as well as multiple PCI slots; built-in Audio, SATA2 with RAID, and onboard dual Gigabit Ethernet ports, all in an SSI CEB (12″ x 10.5″) compact form factor for mid to full-size tower configurations.

Although it may be entry-level it is still expensive compared to even the coolest of desktop motherboards, but you do get a helluva lot. It has SLI support if you need hardcore graphics and practically everything else you could need from a motherboard.

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