As the Intel Pentium 4 era draws to a close there are few manufactures still designing
and producing the P4 mother board. The Tyan Tomcat and Tiger series of Tyan
Motherboards are of high quality at a reasonable price. As with other manufactures I
have owned a Tomcat and a Tiger mother board. The Tiger was a 486 processor
mother board but was a single processor board, it gave way to the Tomcat Pentium
Dual Processor Slot A mother board.
If you want to upgrade only your mother board and keep
your current processor as a way to save some $$
then
this is one of the best P4 boards produced today. It has features that some of
the newer boards by other manufactures lack, with the SATA raid and support of
up to 4 gig of ram with dual channel support you will breath new life into your
system without upgrading to the newer processors. Considering it has two 1Gbit
lan ports and built in video with 8 meg of ram, this would make a very good
replacement for a small business server with out the expense of the XEON
processor. Very high value for your hard earned money.
S5112G2NR (TOMCAT I7210)
Tyan
Motherboard
CPU:
Single mPGA478 ZIF socket supports Intel Pentium 4 Northwood or Prescott or Celeron processor up to 2.8GHz; FSB 533/800 MHz Chipset: Intel E7210 & 6300ESB chipset
Memory:
4x 184-pin DDR DIMM supports ECC/non-ECC DDR400/333 memory; Max up to 4GB of unbuffered memory;
Dual channel support
Ports:
2x PS/2 ports
2x serial ports (one via optional cable)
1x parallel header
4x USB 2.0 ports (two front via optional cable)
1x VGA
2x RJ45
Form Factor: ATX 2.03, 12 x 9.6 inch / 305 x 244 mm
Support offerings:
Online support for manuals, bois upgrades, and device drivers.
One year warranty for most TYAN products. All returns must go though the reseller where item was purchased.
TYAN does do an exchange or repair of your mother board I would give their support a
9 out of 10. (Be prepared to give a full explanation of the defect, go slow; some
of their techs do not speak English very well.)
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