Pyxis Recommended Hardware

Version 1.0 – Philippe Guichard – 21st June 2007

Pyxis SD

 Motherboards

Minimum slots requirements are 1 PCI-E x16 and 2 PCI or 2 PCI-E and 1 PCI.

- Supermicro PDSBA+ Core 2 Duo LGA775 ATX form factor - 1 PCIe x16 Graphic, 1 PCIe x8 (x4 signal), 1 PCIe x1, 3 PCI 33MHz

or

- Supermicro PDSGE Dual-Core Pentium D LGA775 1066 FSB ATX form factor - 1 PCIe x16 Graphic, 1 PCIe x1, 2 PCI-X 133/100 MHz,  3 PCI 33 MHz

- Other motherboards may work as well

 Processors

- Minimum Intel P4 3.2 GHz

- For PDSGE: Intel Pentium D 945 Presler 3.4GHz 2 x 2MB L2 Cache LGA 775 -Processor

- For PDSBA+: Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 Conroe 2.13GHz 2M shared L2 Cache LGA 775 Processor

 Memory

- Minimum 1GB of DDR2 800/667/533MHz unbuffered, non-ECC SDRAM, 240-pin gold-plated DIMMs

 BlackMagic SD Video Card (driver 6.1.2)

- DeckLink SP PCI or PCI-E (Analog YUV I/O and SDI monitor)

or

- DeckLink Pro PCI (SDI I/O and Analog YUV monitor)

or

- DeckLink Extreme PCI or PCI-E (SDI and Analog YUV I/O)

 Hard Drives

- Minimum 2 drives striped RAID0 for uncompress video

Recommended drives are Seagate SATA 3.0 Gb/s

Graphic Card - NVIDIA Chipset only:

- Minimum FX7300GT with 256MB RAM

- FX7600GT with 256MB recommended

Complete PC Workstations:

- HP xw4400 with Intel Core2 Duo 2.

- Dell Precision390 with Intel Core2 Duo (For BlackMagic PCI card ONLY, will not work with PCI-E BlackMagic card)