IWILL - IWILL Brings NVIDIA into High-End Workstations

May 26th 2004 | Hardware

IWILL has been planning to make three workstation 2P mainboards based on NVIDIA nForce3 core-logic sets this year. These are DK8N, DK8E and DK8E2 based on nForce3 Pro 250, as well as CK8-04 series core-logic.

The first 2P Opteron workstation platform with NVIDIA nForce3 Pro 250 core-logic onboard is IWILL DK8N. The part features 2 Socket 940, 8 DIMM slots for up to 16GB of DDR SDRAM, AGP 8x slot, 4 PCI-X 64-bit 133MHz slots (AMD 8131 controller), 1 PCI slot, Gigabit Ethernet, Serial ATA-150 with RAID 0,1, 0+1, USB 2.0 ports, FireWire ports, 6-channel audio and so on. IWILL DK8N is designed for CAD/CAM, DCC users who need high-end graphic cards for Open GL as well as powerful 64-bit microprocessors.

…Another mainboard for 2 AMD Opteron CPUs based on NVIDIA’s chipset – IWILL DK8E – is scheduled to come in the third quarter. This one will carry 8 DIMM slots, PCI Express x16 for graphics, ATI Rage XL graphics chip, PCI-X 2.0 slots, Gigabit Ethernet, Serial ATA-150 support, USB 2.0 and other essential features and controllers. The DK8E2 that is scheduled for late Q4 2004 or early Q1 2005 will boast with some performance and feature-set improvements.

IWILL Brings NVIDIA into High-End Workstations
IWILL Formally Launched 2P nForce3 Pro 250 Mainboard
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IWILL - IWILL Brings NVIDIA into High-End Workstations
Published in: Hardware on 2004-05-26