Intel 5400 chipset solution for an 8-Core motherboard:

Sunday, May 3, 2009 at 10:17 AM



Prodcut:
TYAN Tempest i5400XL (S5392)


Product Site:

http://www.tyan.com/product_board_detail.aspx?pid=564

Price Range:
Roughly around $400 at most retailers

Key Factors:
After doing some reaseach, It's in CEB Form Factor, 12" x 10.5" < Will fit in most ATX Cases, however, CEB may require a proprietary PSU. My case for example, is the Lian Li PC-A10B, its motherboard tray has width up to 11.5" (with extra room of ODDs)
- Also, an x16 and x8 pci-express slot!

Specifications:
Processor
• Dual LGA771 sockets
• Supports up to two Intel® Xeon® Woodcrest
Processors( 5000/5100 Series Dualcore);
Clovertown Processors (5300 Series, Quadcore);
Wolfdale-DP Processors (45nm, dual-core);
Harpertown Processors (45nm, quad-core)
• 1.33 / 1.06GHz FSB
• VRD 11.0

Chipset
• Intel 5400 MCH + 6321ESB chipset
• Support for 1.33 / 1.06GHz FSB
• Winbond W83627EHG Super I/O Chip

Memory
• Four 240-pin DDR2 FBDIMM sockets
• Four memory channels
• Supports ECC DIMMs
• Maximum of 32/16 GB DDR2-533/667

Expansion Slots
• Two (2) PCI Express x16 slots
– from MCH (PCI-E Gen2)
• One (1) PCI Express x8 slot
– X8 signal from 6321ESB
• Two (2) PCI-X 133/100MHz slots from 6321ESB
• One (1) PCI 32-bit 33MHz slot
• Total six (6) expansion slots

Integrated I/O Interface
• One 9-pin 16550 UART serial port (header)
• One LPT Header
• Four USB 2.0 ports (via two headers)
• Six Standard/integrated SATA2 connectors
• One IDE and one Floppy connectors
• One 4-pin CD-in header and one 4-pin Aux
header
• One 9-pin front panel audio header

Back Panel I/O ports
• Stacked PS/2 keyboard and mouse connectors
• Stacked (2)USB 2.0 ports
• One Serial port
• One SPDIF in /out
• Stacked USB 2.0 (2) and RJ-45 (1) connectors
• Stacked Line-in, Line-out, Mic-in audio
connectors

System Management
• ADI Hardware Monitor w/ PECI circuit
• CPU thermal & voltage monitor support
• Five (5) fan headers (4-pin configuration)

Power

• EPS12V/SSI (24+8+4 pin) power connectors

Integrated LAN Controllers
• Intel GbE from 6321ESB (single port "Gilgal"
82564)
• One RJ-45 ports with LED

Integrated Audio
• HDA link
• RealTek ALC888 controller (High Definition
Audio)
• Line-in, Line-out, Mic-in rear ports
• Front panel audio header
• CD-in, Aux headers (4-pin configuration)

Integrated Serial ATA II
• Six (6) SATA-II ports
• 3.0 Gb/s per port
• RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 support in Windows

Server Management
Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) from
daughter card M3291
• Tailored for IPMI 2.0 specification
• Supports remote power on/off and reset
(IPMIover-LAN)
• Server Management Daughter card via built-in
2x25 header

Trusted Platform Management (TPM)
• Infineon SLB9635TT 1.2

BIOS
• PhoenixBIOS® on 8Mbit Flash ROM
• Support APM 1.2, ACPI 2.0
• Serial Console Redirect
• PXE via Ethernet, USB device boot
• PnP, DMI 2.0, WfM 2.0 Power Management
• User-configurable H/W monitoring
• Auto-configuration of hard disk types
• Multiple boot options
• 48-bit LBA support

Form Factor
• CEB (12" x 10.5")

Regulatory
• FCC Class B (DoC)
• European Community CE (DoC)

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