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Pyxis Recommended Hardware

Version 1.0 – Philippe Guichard – 21st June 2007
 

Pyxis HD

 Motherboards

- Supermicro X7DAL-E Dual-Core Xeon 5000/51000 ATX form factor - 1 PCIe x16 Graphic, 1 PCIe x16 (x4 signal), 2 PCI-X 133MHz, 2 PCI

or

- Supermicro X7DAE Dual-Core Xeon 5000/51000 Extended ATX form factor - 1 PCIe x16 Graphic, 1 PCIe x16 (x4 signal), 2 PCI-X 133MHz, 1 PCI-X 100MHz,  1 PCI

or

- Tyan Tempest i5000XT (S2696) Dual-Core Xeon 5000/5100 Extended ATX form factor - 1 PCIe x16 Graphic, 1 PCIe x16 (x8 signal), 1 PCIe x8 (x4 signal), 2 PCI-X 133/100MHz, 1 PCI (* Crystal Core compatible)

 Processors

- 2 x Intel Dual-Core Xeon 5130 2.0 GHz 1333FSB 4MB LGA771 (minimum)

or

- 2 x Intel Dual-Core Xeon 5140 2.33 GHz 1333FSB 4MB LGA771

 Memory

- 2GB  of 533 / 667MHz FB-DIMM (Fully Buffered DIMM) DDR2 ECC SDRAM 72-bit, 240-pin gold-plated DIMMs (4 x 512MB or 2 x 1Gb)

 Serial ATA RAID Controler:

- HighPoint ROCKETRAID2220 PCI-X SATA II Controller Card RAID - 8 channels

or

- 3ware 9550SX-8LP 64-bit/133MHz PCI-X SATA II Raid Controller Card RAID - 8 channels

or

use onboard SATA controller from motherboard for up to 4 drives (compress HD video only)

 BlackMagic HD Video Card: (driver 6.1.2)

- DeckLink HD Extreme 4:2:2 PCI-E Single Link

or

- DeckLink HD Pro 4:4:4 PCI-E Dual Link

or

- DeckLink HD Pro 4:4:4 PCI-X Dual Link

 Hard Drives

- Minimum 3 drives striped RAID0 for compressed HD

- Minimum 6 drives striped RAID0 for uncompress HD 4:2:2 8 bit (8 drives for 10bit)

Recommended drives are SATA 3.0 Gb/s

 Graphic Card - NVIDIA Chipset only:

- Minimum FX7300GT with 256MB RAM

- FX7600GT with 256MB recommended or better

 Complete PC Workstations

- HP xw8400 with 2 x Dual-Core Intel Xeon, 2.0GHz min and 2 GB RAM, stock video card (replace with above model)

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