Dell 5820 - System BIOS Configuration

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Dave Pimm – Avid Technology – Dec 22, 2017
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5.) Slot Configuration:
Slot Configuration Information
Slot #
Electrical
Mechanical
1
X8 PCI-E Gen 3
x16
Shared Storage Controllers Nexis/ISIS
Intel X710, i350-T2
Atto FFRM-NS11/NS12
Myricom 10G-PCIE-8B-S
2
x16 PCI-E Gen 3
(75Watts)
x16
Graphics Card:
Nvidia P1000, P2000,P4000
AMD WX-7100, WX-5100
3
X1 PCI-E Gen 3
x16
Not recommended (x1 slot)
4
x16 PCI-E Gen 3
(75Watts)
x16
Local SAS Storage Controllers:
5
X4 PCI-E Gen 3
x16
Avid/BMD HIB card for DNxIO/DNxIQ
Or Dell Thunderbolt 3 adapter card
6
PCI 32/33
PCI
Not
recommend
ed for use
(PCI slot)
Embedded Intel
I219-LM Gb NIC
PCI-E x1
Gen 3
Qualified for Avid Nexis/ISIS
6.) Use of embedded NIC ports for Nexis/ISIS connectivity Important Information
The 5820 has one embedded NIC port which is qualified for Nexis
For proper operation and connectivity of the Intel network interface with NEXIS the following settings are required:
1. For the Intel NIC driver, under the performance settings, change the following parameters:
- Receive Buffers to 10 24
- Transmit Buffers to 1024
2. Disable the windows firewall.
7.) Required system BIOS settings for AVID environments:
Use latest version from Vendor website
Please Note: CPU Hyper-threading should be enabled in all configurations. It is currently enabled by
default by Dell for shipping 5820 systems