Installation guide

TARGA 3000 Configuration Cookbook
IRQ 6 - Floppy Drive IRQ 14 - Primary IDE Interface
IRQ 7 - LPT1 IRQ 15 - Secondary IDE Interface
BIOS Tip: TARGA must not share an interrupt assignment with another device in the system, and TARGA
should be assigned an interrupt of 9, 10 or 11.
3.4 How Much RAM is Necessary?
TARGA 3000 will barely function with a minimum 128MB of system memory but performance increases
dramatically when more RAM is added. 256MB of RAM is recommended (and 512MB will boost
performance further). TARGA is competing with the operating system and any other applications that may
be running in the background. Whenever an application is launched (i.e. TitleDeko) physical RAM must be
allocated to the new process. When the physical RAM amount is exceeded, the operating system must page
out portions of the existing physical RAM to a page or swap file on the hard drive. Since a hard drive is much
slower than memory the paging process slows down system performance.
3.5 Overclocking
Increasing the bus speed of the motherboard is not supported. The common practice of increasing the
multiplier of bus speed frequency has been shown to lower the overall reliability and predictability of most
systems, and therefore is not recommended on a TARGA 3000 workstation
3.6 Operating System
TARGA 3000 v 1.0 / 1.0.1 / 1.0.2 requires Windows NT 4.0 Workstation (build 1381, Service Pack 5 or
above).
TARGA 3000 v 1.1 supports Windows 2000 in addition to Windows NT 4.0
Use Windows NT Service Pack 5 or newer for TARGA 3000. If issues arise because of a service pack
update, we will issue a public statement via our web site at www.pinnaclesys.com.
3.7 Processors
The TARGA 3000 has been certified with the following processors :
- PIII 500 MHz and higher
- PIII Xeon 500MHz and higher
- P4 1Ghz and higher
Dual processor workstations are highly recommended if TitleDeko titles, multiple audio and graphics layers
will be used. By design Windows NT supports a symmetrical multiprocessing (SMP) environment. Adobe
Premiere can also take advantage of SMP for specific functions. TARGA 3000 takes advantage of
multithreading but does not benefit from SMP environments.
TARGA 3000 is fully compatible with Intel processors that employ SIMD technology. However, TARGA 3000
does not currently take advantage of the SIMD instruction set.
AMD Athlon processors : These processors are fully x86 compliant so they should present no risk to TARGA
3000. However, Athlon-based motherboards have not been tested.
Xeon Processors : This enhanced version of the Pentium II and III series allows faster L2 cache
performance, as it operates at the same speed (measured in MHz) as the core processor. The cache on a
regular Pentium II or III operates at half the core speed. Though this sounds exciting, tests in the trade
publications have not shown substantial increase of performance in non-linear editing systems.