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1.) Dell 5820 AVID Qualified System Specification:
5820 Hardware Configuration
Supported Intel Xeon Scalable family (Skylake) CPU Choices
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Xeon W-2133 3.6 Ghz, turbo up to 3.9Ghz 6-core
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Xeon W-2135 3.7 Ghz, turbo up to 4.5Ghz 6-core
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Xeon W-2145 3.7 Ghz, turbo up to 4.5Ghz 8-core
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Xeon W-2155 3.3 Ghz, turbo up to 4.5Ghz 10-core
Supported Video Cards
1.) NVIDIA P1000 4GB PCI-e video board
2.) NVIDIA P2000 5GB PCI-e video board
3.) NVIDIA P4000 8GB PCI-e video board
4.) AMD Radeon Pro WX5100 8GB PCI-e video board
5.) AMD Radeon Pro WX7100 8GB PCI-e video board
System Disk Drive – 500 GB (recommended) SATA SSD.
boot drive options which are acceptable. Recommend a Dell qualified drive be selected.
Standard AVID memory configuration:
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Systems using the new Xeon W series Skylake CPU's will use DDR4-2666MHz memory (up to 8 DIMMs per system)
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Each CPU has 4 memory lanes - optimal bandwidth when all 4 memory lanes filled
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32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4 2666MHz ECC memory – (Requires four 8GB DIMMs)
Memory modules must be installed according to manufacturer's requirements
Optional AVID memory configuration:
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64GB (8 x 8GB) DDR4 2666 ECC memory – (Requires eight 8GB DIMMs)
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64GB (4 x 16GB) DDR4 2666 ECC memory – (Requires four 16GB DIMMs)
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128GB (8 x 16GB) DDR4 2666 ECC memory – (Requires eight 16GB DIMMs)
Memory configuration constraints
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No other memory configurations are formally supported in AVID environments.
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Un-balanced memory configurations which mix and match memory module sizes and locations will
result in a poor performing, non-optimal operating environment.
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NUMA should be disabled in BIOS
2.) Qualified Operating Systems, Avid Client Editing Applications, Hardware and Shared-
Storage support for the Dell 5820:
Dell Supports:
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Microsoft® Windows 7 Professional 64-bit Edition with SP1 (SP1 required)
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Microsoft® Windows 10 Pro / Enterprise 64-bit Edition Version 1703 or 1709 – (MC 8.5 or above)
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Microsoft® Windows 10 Pro for workstations 64-bit Version 1709 – (MC 8.5 or above)
Dell offers higher performing solid-state, NVMe, and SAS
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Dave Pimm
– Avid Technology – Dec 22, 2017
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