Well, TYAN seems to have decided to surprise all of us with a great number of product announcements. One more mainboard presented by the company today appeared Thunder K7X (S2468) based on a new version of AMD dual-processor chipset – AMD-760MPX (we have already told you about a similar solution from Gigabyte). Please, meet the newcomer:

As you can notice from this small pic, the mainboard is an enhanced version of the well-known Thunder K7 (S2462) solution, and just like its predecessor, it is intended for rack-mount servers in the first place. As for the more detailed specs, here they are: Dual-Socket A, Extended ATX form-factor (13" x 12" or 330.2mm x 304.8mm), AMD762 North Bridge, AMD768 South Bridge. The board is equipped with 4 DIMM slots for Registered DIMM modules (with ECC support) supporting up to 4GB PC1600 DDR SDRAM or up to 3GB PC2100 DDR SDRAM. The DIMM slots are angled to the PCB by 25 degrees. Besides, there are three 5V 64bit/66MHz PCI slots and 2 5V 32bit/33MHz PCI slots, an AGP Pro/4x slot, integrated ATI Rage XL (4MB local frame buffer), 2 ATA/100 channels, dual-channel Ultra160 SCSI controller from Adaptec (AIC-7899W) and two 3Com 3C920 10/100 network controllers.
To tell the truth, we did expect the mainboards on AMD-760MPX to come in mid November (see this news story), however, it is quite surprising why AMD hasn’t yet announced the chipset. Anyway, it is about to happen any minute now. Just in case you forgot we would like to briefly remind you that the major differences between AMD-760MP and AMD-760MPX are the support of PCI 64bit/66MHz and the 64bit 33Mhz PCI bus between the chipset bridges.