Qualified PC Specifications

Broadcast System Specifications

Supported Manufactures

Systems from HP, Dell and SuperMicro are supported. Due to its product quality and consistency over its life cycle, 3 years on site cross boarder warranty and near silent operation our preferred choice is HP.

Generic Broadcast Specification (SD / HD SDI output)

CPU (Intel) - Minimum dual Intel Xeon X5550 2.66 8MB/1333 Quad Core.
Disk - Minimum 2 x 15,000 rpm SAS, mirrored in hardware.
RAM - 4Gb.
GPU - nVidia 4800 (SD) / 5800 (HD) FX Quadro.
Video - DVS Centaurus 2 Lite or Centaurus 2.
21” rack mount option.
Mirrored Twin 15,000 SAS Drives Raid1
Red Hat Linux WS Enterprise 4.

Design and Edit Station Specifications

RTSW recommends a broadcast specification HP workstation complete with nVidia Quadro gpu’s whenever running any of the tOG family of products. But we also understand this is not economically viable for all customers when using tOG-Edit off line to prepare graphics. For this reason we have qualified the lower cost HP 4600 and z400 workstation and a couple of high end laptops.

It has been our experience that some features on the nVidia Quadro series gpu’s are not supported on the lower cost GeForce gpu’s – check out our FAQs or call support if you have any questions.

These products are not intended for live rendering to air, but are qualified cost effective design seats. We do support Windows 32bit XP for Design, but recommend RH Linux WS in line with the Render specifications (all these PC's can be set up to dual boot).

Generic tOG-Edit System Specification

CPU - ≥ Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.00 6MB/1333 CPU.
Disk - SAS/SATA.
RAM - ≥ 2Gb.
Deskside or 21” rack mount option.
nVidia GE Force 8800, 285 or 295 GPU family (or current Quadro series).
Monitor - 16/9 1920 x1200 preferred, 1600x1200 minimum.
Red Hat EL4 Workstation or MS XP Pro 32 bit.

Qualified Laptop - Dell

210-15777 XPS M1710 Duo Processor T2600 (2.16 GHz, 2 MB L2 cache, 667 MHz FSB).
370-12184 2048MB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (2x1024).
230-10041 17" UltraSharp Wide Screen WUXGA (1920 x 1200) Display with TrueLife.
400-12420 120GB (5,400 rpm) SATA Hard Drive.
Ships with MS Windows, can dual boot with RH Linux.

Qualified Laptop - HP

8330W Intel Core 2 Duo T9600. 4GB RAM, 1920 x 1200 VGA.

Ships with MS Windows 7, can dual boot with RH Linux.