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- Page 1 Avid Configuration Guidelines Dell 7810 workstation Dual 8, 10, 12, 14, or 16-Core CPU – Avid Technology – Sept 1st, 2016 Dave Pimm Page 1 of 15 Rev D...
- Page 2 System Disk Drive – 500 GB (recommended) SATA-II 3Gb/s 7200RPM. Dell offers higher performing solid-state and SAS boot drive options which are acceptable options. Recommend a Dell qualified drive be selected. Standard AVID memory configuration: Systems using the newer gen v4 CPU’s will use 2400MHz memory Systems using the older gen v3 CPU’s will use 2133MHz memory...
- Page 3 NUMA should be disabled in BIOS 2.) Qualified Operating Systems, Avid Client Editing Applications, Hardware and Shared- Storage support for the Dell 7810: Supported: Microsoft® Windows 7 Professional 64-bit Edition with SP1 (SP1 required) Microsoft® Windows 8.1 Professional / Enterprise 64-bit Edition Microsoft®...
- Page 4 Thunderbolt 2 - higher system over-head, particularly if sharing additional Thunderbolt devices on the same Thunderbolt bus with DNxIO. DELL 7810 supports only one Thunderbolt HBA in a 7810 with single Thunderbolt port (resulting in Thunderbolt bus sharing for multiple Thunderbolt devices).
- Page 5 Avid DX Interface HBA Support Note: (See reference pictures on page 7 of this guide). All 3 versions of the DX interface HBA are supported on the 7810 with Media Composer / Symphony 1) Active DX interface HBA 7030-30048-01 (also for Artist DNxIO)
- Page 6 5.) Use of embedded NIC ports for ISIS connectivity Important Information The 7810 has one embedded NIC port that is qualified to run with Is Embedded Intel network interface for ISIS connectivity: For proper operation and connectivity of the Intel network interface with ISIS the following settings are required:...
- Page 7 Memory option for NUMA – Disable Set 7810 Required system BIOS changes: During boot up press F2 at the Dell splash screen to invoke Set Up. Select the Performance tab Select Hyper-Threading Verify setting is Enabled (or enable if currently set to disable)
- Page 8 Set optimized Nvidia driver settings for Avid editing environments: 1. See picture below 2. Right-Click on the desktop and select Nvidia Control Panel 3. Select the “Desktop” menu selection in the control panel menu bar. 4. Enable “Desktop -> Video Editing Mode 5.
- Page 9 9. For the “Power management mode” feature, select “Prefer maximum performance” as shown in the picture below. 10. Depress the “Apply” button. 11. Nvidia driver optimization settings for Avid environments are complete. – Avid Technology – Sept 1st, 2016 Dave Pimm Page 9 of 15 Rev D...
- Page 10 (Requires monitors with native display-port connections) F.) Serial Port Deck Control The Dell 7810 workstation does have an embedded serial port. The embedded serial-port has been qualified by Avid and will maintain frame accuracy in Avid environments. Primary or secondary /...
- Page 11 G.) O.S. setting recommendations for optimum performance with Avid Editing applications: The following links provide O.S. setting suggestions for ensuring optimum performance when working with your Avid editing application with a Windows operating system. - Optimizations for Video Editors - Windows 7 http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/troubleshooting/en349411 H.) Set Windows “Visual Effects”...
- Page 12 4. On the left side of the screen above, locate and select “Advanced system settings” 5. The System properties window will be displayed. (Picture below). 6. Under the “Advanced” tab depress the “Settings...” button for performance. 7. The “performance Options” window will be displayed. 8.
- Page 13 9. Depress the “Apply” button 10. Required Windows visual performance settings for Avid environments are now complete. Intel NIC Port(s) for ISIS connectivity: Embedded I217/I210 ports / Intel PRO 1000 Dual Gb HBA / Intel i350-T2 Dual Gb NIC HBA For proper operation and connectivity of any Intel NIC port used with ISIS the settings below are required.
- Page 14 Example below is for the Intel PRO 1000 PT. For the performance settings, change the following parameters: Receive Buffers to 1024 Transmit Buffers to 1024 Disable the windows firewall. To set the Intel NIC Receive / Transmit buffers: Go to device manager and select each instance of the network adapter device which will be used for ISIS connectivity. Select performance options and then select Properties.
- Page 15 Perform this for each instance of and Intel NIC port which will be used for ISIS connectivity. J.) Disable the windows firewall: Navigate to Control Panel / Windows Firewall -- Select Turn Windows Firewall on or off – Avid Technology – Sept 1st, 2016 Page 15 of 15 Dave Pimm Rev D...
- Page 16 Revision Date Name Update Rev A Dec 24 , 2014 Dave Pimm Initial release of the Dell 7810 configuration guide Rev B Nov 24 , 2015 Dave Pimm Add Nvidia M4000/M5000 with new driver, AMD graphics Rev C Feb 8...