Der er her tale om et Socket 940 board baseret på NVIDIA's nye nForce3 Pro 250 og AMD 8131 chipset, at der bestemt er tale om et high-end serverboard ses af specifikationerne hvor man ikke undgår at lægge mærke til f.eks. Dual AMD Opteron Processors (Socket 940, 64bit Technology), Dual Channel DDR400/333 Memories, PCI-X, Gigabit Ethernet m/ sikkerheds features (NVIDIA MAC + Marvell PHY), NVRAID ? 2xSATA + 2x IDE, Silicon Image SATA controller (4x SATA with RAID 0, 1, 0+1) - man må sige at med dette board er der lagt op til krig mod Intel platformen.
PRESS RELEASE. Extreme Workstation Platform with NVIDIA Technology
The World?s First nForce3 based DP Workstation Powered by IWILL
May 20th, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan?the professional workstation solution provider, IWILL Corp., proudly announce another ?The World?s First?, the world?s first NVIDIA nForce3 based DP workstation platform, DK8N, for high-end professional workstation solutions.
IWILL has established many ?world?s first? record in the computer history, such as the first to integrate SCSI to motherboards, the first to integrate IDE RAID to motherboards, and the first to delivered DDR motherboards. DK8N is another milestone set by IWILL and has shown her profession in developing the extreme workstation platform for professional users.
Powered by the NVIDIA nForce3 Pro 250 and AMD 8131, IWILL DK8N supports Dual AMD Opteron, high-speed DDR 400 memories, and broad bandwidth PCI-X controller cards. It is also the first AMD Opteron based platform running at 1GHz Hypertransport which maximizes the data transfer rate. With the 64bit technology design, DK8N has the ability to support maximum memory capacity of 16GB, and provide fastest computing power. Most important of all, DK8N has the unique ability to enhance NVIDIA Quadro graphic card performance which is an enormous benefit for graphic intensive and professional users.
There are two special features of DK8N which is exclusive from nForce3 Pro 250, the marvelous networking features and the NVRAID. The gigabit Ethernet feature on DK8N not only has the fastest transfer rate, but also provides the security options and the TOE. The Ethernet controller features: firewall technology, anti-hacker, anti-spoofing, and anti-ARP caching which, together, provides a tremendous networking security function. As TOE, TCP/IP Offload Ethernet, allows DK8N to successfully offload the CPU task and increase the system performance. It offloads the CPU from the work required to segment a large buffer into packets that fit within the network. NVRAID is a unique feature on DK8N which allows ?cross-controller RAID?. Users can easily setup the RAID over SATA and IDE disks within a single disk array, via a user friendly interface provide by NVIDIA.
DK8N has included all the latest features that professionals need as a high-end workstation motherboard.
- Dual AMD Opteron Processors (Socket 940, 64bit Technology)
- Dual Channel DDR400/333 Memories
- AGP Pro/8X
- PCI-X
- Gigabit Ethernet w/ security features (NVIDIA MAC + Marvell PHY)
- NVRAID ? 2xSATA + 2x IDE
- Silicon Image SATA controller (4x SATA with RAID 0, 1, 0+1)
- 2x IEEE-1394, 8x USB2.0
- 6 Channel Audio with S/PDIF ready on board
DK8N is a high-end workstation board that provides the high performance computing power, maximum memory capacity, fastest IO interface, secured network, and more storage power. It is the best AMD based workstation platform for high-end system integrators and performance enthusiast professional users.
DK8N is definitely designed for CAD/CAM users who need high-end graphic cards for Open-GL and floating points as well as the scalable IO capacity. It is also great for DCC market, such as video editing and 3D animations which users need high-speed processors and mass memory capacities to process the mass threads
DK8N Key Feature
? Support dual AMD Opteron Processors
? NVIDIA nForce3 Pro 250 + AMD 8131
? Dual DDR 400 up to 16GB
? AGP 8X/Pro
? PCI-X 64/133, 64/100, 64/66
? Gigabit Ethernet (NVIDIA MAC)
? TI IEEE-1394
? 8x USB 2.0
? Silicon Image SATA RAID (4x SATA)
? NVRAID (2x SATA + 2x IDE)
? 6 Ch. Audio
? E-ATX F.F. (12? X 13?)
Link: http://www.iwillusa.com