Obtanium systems are designed for high-end workflows, allowing a large number of HD sources or allowing for high resolutions and framerates. The following article provides additional information for those seeking to build such a system.
INPUT CAPABILITIES - Capture Card Sources - Up to 24 x HD or 6 x 4K at 60p
- IP Sources - Up to 12 x HD or 6 x 4K NDI or SRT
- Instant Replay - Up to 8 x HD or 2 x 4K at 60p
- Video Callers - Multiple Zoom callers or 8 x vMix Calls
- Other Sources - Up to 50 (Live audio, web browsers, video files, audio files, titles and images)
| OUTPUT CAPABILITIES - Capture Card - Up to 4 x HD or 1 x 4K at 60p
- Graphics Card - Up to 2 x HD or 1 x 4K at 60Hz
- IP (NDI / SRT) - Up to 4 x HD or 1 x 4K at 60p
- Stream (RTMP / LiveLan) - Up to 5 x destinations
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EXAMPLE WORKFLOWS
Not all capabilities listed above can be achieved at the same time. Here are two example workflows running vMix Max on an Obtanium system:
EXAMPLE 1 - HD PRODUCTION (1080p60)INPUT- 18 x SDI cameras (via Decklink Quad 2 capture cards)
- 3 x Full bandwidth NDI sources
- 1 x Video call
- 8 x Instant replay (using above SDI sources and medium buffer)
- 6 x Dante audio channels
- 6 x GT Titles
- 10 x Video files
- 10 x Audio files
- 1 x Web browser
- 1 x Virtual Set
OUTPUT - 2 x SDI (via Decklink Quad 2 capture card)
- 1 x NDI
- 2 x Fullscreen (via graphics card)
- 4 x Dante audio channels
- 2 x Recording
- 2 x Streams (YouTube and Facebook)
| EXAMPLE 2 - 4K PRODUCTION (2160p60)INPUT- 6 x SDI cameras (via Decklink 8K Pro capture cards)
- 2 x Instant replay (using above SDI sources and maximum buffer)
- 6 x GT Titles
- 5 x Video files
- 5 x Audio files
- 1 x Web browser
OUTPUT - 1 x SDI (via Decklink 8K Pro capture card)
- 1 x Fullscreen (via graphics card)
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HARDWARE
The Obtanium system requires specialised hardware. Deviating from the hardware noted below is possible, but may result in incompatibilities and or reduced capacity or performance. Be sure to read all items below, including Special Notes, before selecting hardware.
PROCESSOR (CPU) Intel Xeon W5-2565X - 18 Cores with 3.2GHz base clock speeds
- Quad-channel DDR5 memory support
- 64 lanes of PCIe supported
MOTHERBOARD Gigabyte MW83-RP0 - 4 Usable PCIe slots, each with minimum x8 lane support
- Quad-channel DDR5 memory support
- 10Gbps Intel wired Ethernet support
GRAPHICS CARD (GPU) GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER 16G - 10,240 CUDA Cores
- 736GB/s Memory bandwidth
- See Special Note 4 and 5
STORAGE (SSD) Samsung 970 Evo Plus 2TB M.2 2280 NVMe PCIe 3.0 - For recording / multicording / instant replay capture
Samsung 990 PRO 1TB M.2 2280 NVMe PCIe 4.0 - For Windows 11 Operating System and vMix software
MEMORY (RAM) Corsair 64GB WS DDR5 RDIMM (4x 16GB sticks required) - ECC Registered RDIMM
- 64GB total DDR5 4,800MHz or higher
- Quad-channel via 4 x sticks installed closest to CPU
CAPTURE CARDS Up to 3x high-end capture cards, for example: - AJA Corvid 88 (8x HD SDI)
- Blackmagic Design Decklink Quad 2 (8x HD SDI)
- Blackmagic Design Decklink 8K Pro (4x 4K SDI)
- Blackmagic Design Decklink Quad HDMI Recorder (4x 4K HDMI)
CPU COOLER Silverstone XE360-4677 AIO - 360mm Radiator with 3x 120mm Fans
POWER SUPPLY (PSU) Seasonic - Focus GX-1000 V4 - 1000W with ATX 3.1 support
- Sufficient PCIe / CPU sockets
CASE SilverStone SST-RM44 Server Case - 4U Rack Mount supporting CEB formfactor
- PSU located above Motherboard
- 360mm CPU radiator support
- GPU 322mm long by 136mm high tested to fit well
|  SPECIAL NOTES - CPU and Motherboard available at Newegg at time of publication
- BIOS version to be updated to R07 or higher
- PCIe Slots 7, 3, 2 and 1 to be set to x16 mode in BIOS
- Resizable BAR to be enabled in BIOS
- To fit in the 4U case, a GPU up to 362mm long by 156mm high (from motherboard to case lid) is required - height includes power cable
- Ethernet Port 1 to be used for Full-bandwidth NDI workflows
- This system has 10G network adapters - A 10G Network is required for full-bandwidth NDI workflows
- PCIe slots are numbered from 7 down to 1, starting at the top
- When using Xeon W-2500X series CPU, PCIe slots 6, 5 and 4 are disabled and the 4x memory slots furthest from the CPU are disabled
- Installing the GPU in PCIe slot 7 allows slot 3, 2 and 1 to be used for capture cards
- At time of publication DekTec capture cards are not compatible with this motherboard - See DekTec article here
- Motherboard may not support case USB header cables
- Disable VGA display adapter in Device Manager
- For greater storage capacity, the Samsung 990 PRO 4TB M.2 2280 NVMe PCIe 4.0 can be used, however for instant replay this may require increasing the replay recording buffer (buffer adjustment available from vMix 28)
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