Tyan Tiger K9HE S3970 Preview

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The Tyan Tiger K9HE S3970 motherboard that we have our hands on today is a retail version, and not one of the pre-production samples. Included with the Socket F motherboard were one ribbon FDD cable, four SATA cables, two SATA power adapters, one ribbon IDE cable, one USB 2.0 expansion bracket, one COM port expansion bracket, one user's manual, one quick reference guide, one driver CD, one I/O shield, and two CPU retention frames with back plates. The K9HE is only the first of many Socket F motherboards to come. Referencing the Tyan user's manual, the S3970 is designed to be a high-end server motherboard, and is claimed to be one of the most powerful server solutions available.

[...]The second CPU socket is positioned above the PCI-X slot. Near both these LGA-1207 sockets, there is not much power circuitry or anything that may cause possible installation problems with the heatsink. Higher up on the motherboard is the 24-pin EPS12V power connection. The I/O ports on the rear of the motherboard include two PS/2, two USB 2.0, one COM, one VGA, and two Gigabit LAN ports.

Overall, Tyan has done yet another great job designing the Tiger K9HE motherboard and there does not appear to be any major flaws with its design. More information and performance numbers will come later with this first AMD Socket F (LGA-1207) Opteron motherboard. The Tyan Tiger K9HE S3970 should be available to the general public in the next couple of weeks.