11.Feb.2004
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"Momentum Computer" announces a PPC970 motherboard
"Momentum Computer" offers the "970 Evaluation Platform" by the title link. A
motherboard for up to two PPC processors of the PPC970 series with the following specifications:
- Full Size ATX Form-factor.
- Dual IBM PowerPC 970 Processors.
- PowerPC 970 NorthBridge.
- Two point-to-point PowerPC interfaces, running at up to 1GHz.
- AGP 8X Interface.
- HyperTransport interface, running at up to 1.2GHz.
- DDR SDRAM memory controller, dual channel (128-bits + ECC), up to
16GigaBytes of SDRAM supported. Special MUX feature uses only one pair of
DIMMs at a time.
- PLX HT7520 HyperTransport tunnel, with two PCI-X interfaces, each
capable of running at 133MHz.
- One PCI-X interface is hooked up to two 64-bit PCI connectors.
- The other PCI-X interface is hooked directly to an Intel 82546ER Dual
Gigabit Ethernet device.
- AMD8111 SouthBridge.
- ATA133 capable EIDE interfaces (Master/Slave).
- USB interface with 2 ports presented.
- 10/100 BASE-T Ethernet interface.
- Standard Power Management.
- PCI 32-bit @ 33MHz Interface.
- SMSC LPC47M260 Super I/O Device.
- Connects to SouthBridge through LPC bus.
- Flash Interface.
- Fan Controller Interface.
- PowerPC 405EP Processor.
- Acts as Service/Management Processor for 970 processor(s).
- Flash Interface.
- Independent memory sub-system (32-bit SDRAM).
- 10/100 BASE-T Interface.
- On-Board M-Systems Flash Disk (no moving parts, for diskless
applications).
- Service Processor manages 970's through I2C interface.
Currently two difrent versions are offered. The prices are 4500 and 6000 USD.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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