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Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Overview
The Tiger 230™ is a high performance motherboard designed for server and performance applications
that require the power of dual Intel® Pentium® III FC-PGA processors or a single Celeron® FC-PGA pro-
cessor. This motherboard utilizes the VIA Apollo Pro 133A chipset and can support CPU speeds of 500
MHz through 1 GHz and front side bus speeds of 100 MHz or 133 MHz. Please see Tyan’s website for
updates and information concerning CPU information and support:
http://www.tyan.com
This integrated performance board is supported in an ATX form factor. Some of the features included are
onboard UltraDMA-33/66/100 support, and sound bridge with integrated hardware monitoring.
With I/O and drive controller support onboard, the one 2x/4x mode AGP slot and five 32-bit PCI v2.2 slots
are free for numerous types of add-on expansion cards. The four 168-pin DIMM sockets can support up
to 2GB* of PC100 memory or 1.5GB* of PC133 SDRAM.
Remember to visit Tyan’s website at http://www.tyan.com. There you can find information on all of
Tyan’s products with FAQs, distributors list, and BIOS settings explanations.
* 2.0GB total memory @ 4 DIMMs only, when using 100MHz SDRAM
1.5GB total memory @ 3 DIMMs only, when using 133MHz SDRAM
Check the Tyan website for details on memory compatibility: http://www.tyan.com