This IS the Avid L2: [Avid-L2] Specs for Symphony workstations (PC)

Our IT department is trying to quickly spec out a pair of workstations to
take advantage of the Symphony crossgrade promotion. Here's the
correspondence with Avid, and we were looking for second (and third and
fourth) opinions as to whether we need to spring for new hardware.

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Entered By :

Entered on : 5/29/2012 6:39 PM

If you are requesting for a quotation of workstation that will work with
Symphony 6, I believe I already showed it to you, but let me give it again.
Here is the link.
http://cdn.pinnaclesys.com/supportfiles/attach/mediacomposer_versionmatrix.pdf

As mentioned previously, we have qualified workstations and if you have
other workstation that you'd like to work with Symphony, you can always use
the 30 day trial of the software.

Best regards,

AVID

Entered By : Customer ( Integration)

Entered on : 5/29/2012 6:00 PM

I have several more questions:

1. Could I use a Nvidia Quadro 2000 graphics card with the Dell Optiplex
990 workstation listed below for the AVID Symphony 6 software?

2. We have another computer laptop that we would like to consider for Avid
Symphony 6 workstation, will these specs qualify:

Dell Precision M4500, Intel Core i7-740QM 1.73 GHz 6MB, 8.0GB RAM, Nvidia
Quadro FX 1800M, 256GB Solid State hard drive

Entered By :

Entered on : 5/23/2012 12:47 PM

I showed your PC specs and aside from the video card which the
recommendation was to use nVIDIA Quadro, both system should be fine. For
the PCI slots, since this workstations are not tested we dont have any
specific requirements to give.

Best regards,

AVID

Entered By : Customer ( Integration)

Entered on : 5/22/2012 4:12 PM

We currently own two different Dell workstations:

1. Dell Optiplex 990
http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/optiplex-990/pd
Basic Specs:
Core i7-2600, 3.4GHz, 8M,
16GB,Non-ECC,1333MHz DDR3
512MB AMD RADEON HD 6350 Graphics Dual DVI
500GB HYBRID, SATA 3.0Gb/s and 16MB Data Burst (RAID1)
USB 3.0

2. Dell Precision T7500
http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/precision-t7500/fs
Basic Specs:
Six Core Intel Xeon Processor X5675, 3.06GHz 12M L3, 6.4GT/s,FPWS T7500
12GB DDR3 ECC SDRAM Memory,1333MHz
2GB nVIDIA Quadro 4000,Dual Monitor, 2DP and 1DVI
1.5TB SATA 3.0Gb/s,7200 RPM Hard Drive Hard Drive with 32MB
DataBurstCache,Dell Precision TX500

We would prefer to use the Optiplex 990 workstation for the next 4 years.
we understand that we may need to purchase a replacement Nvidia video card.

Please let us know if the Dell workstations qualifies for the AVID Symphony
6. I am not clear what are the requirements for the PCI slots, could you
please clarify.

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