Tyan unveils Whitney-based motherboard

Tyan Computer has announced its S2054 Tomcat i810 high performance motherboard with integrated graphics.

Targeted at the volume PC market, the microATX mainboard accommodates socketed Celeron processors and the Intel 810 AGPset, or "Whitney," chipset.

The Tomcat i810 board combines an integrated, high performance, 3D graphics accelerator with its 4MB, 100MHz on-board display cache. Other key features include: support for up to 512MB of industry standard SPD DRAM and ECC DRAM on two PC-100 DIMM sockets; four bus mastering PCI slots; dual channel UltraDMA/66 support; on-board AC-97 soft audio with game and speaker ports; and two-channel Universal Serial Bus (USB) support; as well as all standard I/O connectors.

The motherboard is designed to accommodate both a 66MHz and a 100MHz front-side-bus, along with all current and future socketed Celeron CPUs and support for an optional digital video-out interface for LCD flat panels.

The Tomcat i810 with plug 'n' play flash BIOS is priced below $100 in OEM quantities with a three year manufacturer's warranty.

The company's Web site at http://www.tyan.com .