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Joe Conforti –Avid Technology –January 15th 2016
HP Z240 Workstation –Tower / SFF Rev A Config Guide
1.) HP Z240 Tower and SFF [Small Form Factor] AVID Qualified System Specification:
Z240 / AVID Qualified Operating System:
Supported: Microsoft® Windows 7 Professional 64-bit Edition withSP1 (SP1 required)
Supported: Microsoft® Windows 8.1 - Professional (64bit) and Windows 8.1 Enterprise (64bit)
Not Supported
Not Supported - Microsoft® Windows 7 –any 32-bit version, or any version of Home, Ultimate or Enterprise
editions.
Not Supported - Microsoft® Windows XP or Vista 32 or 64-bit (any version)
Z240 / AVID Qualified Hardware Configuration
Qualified CPU
1.) Single Intel® Quad-Core Xeon® E3-1245 V5 Processor @ 3.4GHz (3.9GHz Turbo) / 8MB cache /
2133MHz DDR4 memory. The Xeon® E3-1245 V5 Processor includes Intel embedded graphics –HD
P530.
Video Card (GPU)
1. Embedded Intel HD Graphics P530 (The embedded Intel HD P530 graphics are supported for use
with Media Composer. Dedicated memory for the HD P530 graphics must be set to 1GB via the
system BIOS. If the memory for the Intel HD P530 is not set properly, the Media Composer s/w
will not initialize. Refer to the BIOS settings section of this document.
2. Optional - NVIDIA Quadro K620 or K1200 PCI-Express video board (not required)
O.S. System Hard Drive choices
HP M.2 SSD Drive (Best: Option A –extremely fast)
HP Z Turbo Drive G2 (Best: Option B –extremely fast , but , requires utilization of a
PCIe Gen3 x4 slot)
SATA 6Gbs SSD (better)
SATA 7200RPM Hard disk (good)
Supported Memory Configurations
1.) Memory: 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4 2133 ECC memory –
Requires two 4GB DIMMs installed in memory slots DIMM1 and DIMM3
2.) Memory: 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR4 2133 ECC memory –
Requires four 4GB DIMMs installed in all 4 memory slots.
3.) Memory: 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4 2133 ECC memory –
Requires two 8GB DIMMs installed in memory slots DIMM1 and DIMM3
4.) Memory: 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4 2133 ECC memory –
Requires four 8GB DIMMs installed in all 4 memory slots.
Memory configuration constraints
Memory configurations which mix and match memory module sizes and locations should be avoided as they
may potentially result in a poor performing, non-optimal Avid editing operating environment.
