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The box containing the Tyan Transport GX28 (B2882G28S2H), as delivered via UPS, from Newegg. It arrived in just over two days.
Date: 04/24/2008
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The label on the side of the outer box, reading B2882G28S2H Transport GX28.
Date: 04/24/2008
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It seems that this particular Tyan Transport GX28 (B2882G28S2H) server is not RoHS compliant.
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A stamp on the outer carton indicating that the sliding rails, heatsinks, and cable box have been included.
Date: 04/24/2008
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After opening the outer carton which the Tyan Transport GX28 (B2882G28S2H) shipped in I found another plain box. Double boxing like this is good.
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Opening the inner box reveals four more. One contains manuals, disks and cables, the next contains the rail kit, and the other two are heatsinks.
Date: 04/24/2008
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One of the heatsinks, part number 340740900005, is labeled skiving fins. This is a particular type of heatsink.
Date: 04/24/2008
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Looking inside the cable box at the mains (power) cables, some drive cables, manuals, CD, floppies, and rack handles.
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The Tyan Transport GX28 (B2882G28S2H) server itself sitting on my workbench, next to a bottle of bitters. Perspective makes the server look much smaller than it really is.
Date: 04/24/2008
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Looking into the top of the Tyan Transport GX28 (B2882G28S2H) from the front, showing the drive cages, floppy, CD-ROM, etc.
Date: 04/24/2008
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Looking into the top of the Tyan Transport GX28 (B2882G28S2H) from the rear, showing the three network jacks, serial port, USB ports, mouse, keyboard, vga ports, and more.
Date: 04/24/2008
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On the B2882 motherboard inside the Tyan Transport GX28 (B2882G28S2H) is an AMD chipset. Here is the AMD-8111 HyperTransport I/O Hub.
Date: 04/24/2008
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This sticker located over the CPU socket warns one not to use a non-Tyan supplied CPU backplate. In this case I think the word backplate actually means heatsink.
Date: 04/24/2008
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Taped to the chassis, above one of the drive cages, is a sachet of silica gel to keep the server dry during storage and transport.
Date: 04/24/2008
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The Tyan B2882 features the practically standard-in-servers ATI Rage XL (215R3LASB41G) graphics chip. This is a very standard, very compatible, low power chip.
Date: 04/24/2008
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