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Precision 7920 Tower Technical Guidebook-METServers
Precision 7920 Tower Technical Guidebook-METServers
Precision 7920 Tower Technical Guidebook-METServers
Technical Guidebook
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Contents
Chapter 1: Chassis.........................................................................................................................5
Front view............................................................................................................................................................................. 5
Back view.............................................................................................................................................................................. 6
Internal view..........................................................................................................................................................................7
System board components................................................................................................................................................9
Contents 3
Chapter 4: Getting help............................................................................................................... 42
Contacting Dell...................................................................................................................................................................42
4 Contents
1
Chassis
This chapter illustrates the multiple chassis views along with the ports and connectors and also explains the FN hot key
combinations.
Topics:
• Front view
• Back view
• Internal view
• System board components
Front view
Chassis 5
9. 5.25" ODD Bay 10. Slimline optical bay
Back view
6 Chassis
Internal view
Chassis 7
1. CPU1 socket 2. CPU0 Heatsink
3. PCIe holder 4. CPU0 Memory Slots
5. CPU0 Memory Slots 6. Coin cell battery
7. Half length PCIe graphics card 8. CPU1 Memory Slots
9. CPU1 Memory Slots
8 Chassis
1. Flex 2 (default is 5.25" and Slim ODD Bay) 2. Data cable and power cable for the Slim ODD
3. HDD fan bracket 1 4. Intrusion switch
5. Power distribution and fan control board 6. PSU
7. Flex 3 (optional) 8. Flex 4 (optional)
9. HDD fan bracket 0 10. Flex 1 enclosure
11. Flex 0 enclosure
Chassis 9
1. PCIe 3*16 (4 slots) and 3*8 ( 1 slot) 2. Rear fan 0 connector
3. CPU1 memory slots 4. CPU1 socket
5. CPU1 memory slots 6. Rear fan 1 connector
7. CPU1 PCIe 3 x16 Slots (2) 8. Front panel audio
9. Piezo speaker 10. Power Control
11. Power 2 12. Intrusion switch connector
13. System Fan 3 14. Internal speaker connector
15. CPU0 memory slots 16. CPU0 socket
17. System Fan 2 18. CPU0 memory slots
19. System Fan 1 20. Power 1
21. CPU fan 1 22. Coin Cell battery
23. ODD connector 24. Front Panel USB
25. USB 2_Int 26. Flex USB
27. Power remote 28. VROC_key
10 Chassis
2
System configurations options
Topics:
• Operating system
• Chipset
• System specifications
• Memory specifications
• Storage options
• Video specifications
• Expansion slots
• External connectors
• Storage controllers
• Network specifications
• Audio specifications
• Keyboard and mouse
• Security and security software
• Misc. Software
• Service and support
Operating system
Your Precision 7920 Tower supports the following operating systems:
● Windows 11 Pro, 64-bit
● Windows 11 Pro National Academic, 64-bit
● Windows 11 Pro for Workstations, 64-bit
● Windows 10 Pro, 64-bit
● Windows 10 Pro National Academic, 64-bit
● Windows 10 Enterprise, 64-bit *
● Windows 10 Pro for Workstation, 64-bit
● RHEL 8.4
● Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, 64-bit
● Neokylin 10
NOTE: Asterisk(*): means that "Only supported on systems with Xeon W Series CPUs.
Chipset
Table 1. Chipset specifications
Chipset ● Intel C621 Chipset
Non‐volatile memory on chipset
BIOS Configuration SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface) 64 Mbit (8 MB) & 32Mbit (4 MB)
TPM 2.0 Security Device (Trusted Platform Module) 18 KB
Non-TPM available in select countries
NIC EEPROM
Memory specifications
Features Specifications
Type DDR4 RDIMM ECC and non-ECC
Speed ● 2666 MHz (Discontinued on system configurations purchased after October 2020)
● 2933 MHz
● 3200 MHz
NOTE: Computer configurations offered with 2933 MHz RDIMMs operating with Sky Lake
processors will operate at 2666 MHz.
NOTE: Computer configurations offered with 3200 MHz RDIMMs operating with Cascade Lake
processors will operate at 2933 MHz.
Front FlexBay M.2 NVMe PCIe SSDs Up to 4* x 1TB drives, 2 drives per CPU. Requires dual CPU config.
2.5" Self Encrypting Drives 512GB 2.5" SED (OPAL/ FIPS (140-2) HDD
Storage specifications
Features Specifications
Externally DVD-ROM; DVD+/-RW Optional 5.25” bay devices: BD, DVD+/-RW
Accessible
Internally ● M.2 NVMe PCIe SSDs—Up to 8* x 1TB drives on 2 Dell Precision Ultra-Speed Drive Quad x16 cards.
Accessible Requires dual CPU config
● Front FlexBay M.2 NVMe PCIe SSDs—Up to 4* x 1TB drives, 2 drives per CPU. Requires dual CPU
config
● Up to 8 x 3.5" (or 2.5") SATA Drives
● Up to 10 x 3.5" (or 2.5") SATA/SAS Drives with optional controller
Video specifications
Features Specifications
Graphic cards ● Radeon Pro WX 9100
● NVIDIA Quadro GP100
● NVIDIA Quadro P620
● NVIDIA Quadro P2200
● NVIDIA Quadro GV100
● NVIDIA Quadro P6000
● NVIDIA Quadro P5000
● Radeon Pro WX 7100
● Radeon Pro WX 5100
● Radeon Pro WX 4100
● NVIDIA Quadro P4000
● NVIDIA Quadro P2000
● Radeon Pro WX 3100
● Radeon Pro WX 3200
Expansion slots
Table 4. Expansion slots
PCIe x16 Slot Gen 3 Slots 1‐2, 1‐4 (2‐1, 2‐2 w 2nd CPU) 2 (4 with optional 2nd CPU installed)
PCIe x16 (wired x4) Slot Gen 3 open ended ‐ Slot 1‐1 1 (half length)
PCIe x16 Slot (wired x4) Gen 2 ‐ Slot 1‐3 1
PCI 32/33 Slot ‐ Slot 1‐5 1
SATA/ SAS connectors 8 SATA/SAS HDD (via LSI), 2 optional SATA (via Intel AHCI
chipset )
Storage controllers
Table 5. Storage controllers
Integrated ● Integrated: Intel® chipset SATA controller (6Gb/s) with 6
SATA ports plus 2 dedicated ports for optical drives. Intel
RSTe software RAID 0,1,5,10.
● Intel RSTe (vROC) software RAID 0,1,10 option
(motherboard activation key) for M.2 NVMe PCIe SSDs on
1st Dell Ultra-Speed Drive Quad x16 or Duo x8 card (RAID
0,1) or front FlexBay NVMe PCIe SSDs (2 drive RAIDsets
only with RAID 0,1)
Customer kit available for Intel RSTe (vROC) motherboard
activation key for NVMe RAID support.
Optional ● Broadcom MegaRAID® SAS 9440-8i 12Gb/s SAS (6Gb/s
SATA) PCIe controller, 8 ports, Software RAID 0,1,5,10.
● MegaRAID® SAS 9460-16i 12Gb/s SAS (6Gb/s SATA) )
PCIe controller (4GB cache with Flash module/Super Cap
backup) Hardware RAID 0,1,5,10.
Network specifications
Features Specifications
Integrated Intel i219 and i210 Gigabit Ethernet controllers with Intel Remote Wake UP, PXE and Jumbo frames
support.
Network adaptor ● Intel i210 10/100/1000 single port PCIe (Gen 3 x1) gigabit network card.
2 (Optional) ● Intel X550-T2 10GbE dual port PCIe (Gen 3 x4) network card.
● Aquantia AQN-108 2.5Gbit/5Gbe single port PCIe (Gen3 x4) network card.
Audio specifications
Features Specifications
Type High Definition Audio Codec (2 Channel)
Controller Integrated Realtek ALC3234
Misc. Software
Table 10. Misc. Software
Performance Optimizer (formerly Dell Precision Optimizer) Standard
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Physical specifications
Features Specifications
Height 433mm
Width 218mm
Depth 566mm
Weight With front bezel
(Minimum) ● Min configuration 20.4 kg
● Typical configuration 24.3 kg
● Max configuration 33.1 kg
Environmental specifications
Temperature Specifications
Operating 5 °C to 35 °C (41 F to 95 °F)
NOTE: * Starting at 5000 ft, the maximum operating ambient temperature is derated by 1 C (1.8 F)
per 1000 ft up to 10,000 ft.
Relative Specifications
humidity
(maximum)
Operating 8% to 85% (non-condensing)
Storage 5% to 95% (non-condensing)
Maximum Specifications
vibration
Operating 0.52 Grms, 5 to 350 Hz
Storage 2.0 Grms, 5 to 500 Hz
Power specifications
Features Specifications
Voltage Input voltage 100VAC - 240VAC
Wattage ● 1400W at 181VAC - 240VAC
● 1100W at 100VAC - 180VAC
Environmental
Operating System Driver Support
Manageability (examples WOL, PXE)
Management Capabilities Alerting
Table 14. Integrated LAN specifications - Intel i210 Gigabit1 Ethernet LAN 10/100/1000
Type Intel I210 Gigabit1 Ethernet LAN 10/100/1000
External Connector Type
Data Rates supported
Controller Details
Controller bus architecture
Integrated memory
Data transfer mode (example Bus‐Master DMA)
Power consumption (full operation per data rate connection
speed)
Power consumption (full operation per data rate connection
speed)
IEEE standards compliance (example 802.1P)
Hardware Certifications (example FCC, B, GS mark…)
Boot ROM Support
Network Transfer Mode (example Full Duplex, Half
Duplex)
Environmental
Operating System Driver Support
Manageability (examples WOL, PXE)
Management Capabilities Alerting
Table 16.
Type PCIe 3.0 multi-gigabit 5GBASE-T/2.5GBASE-T/1000BASE-T/
100BASE-TX Ethernet adapter
External Connector Type RJ45
Data Rates supported 5 G/2.5 G/1 G/100 Mbps
Controller Details
Controller bus architecture AQC-108
Integrated memory N/A
Data transfer mode (example Bus‐Master DMA) Two SMBus (Master/Slave + Slave)
Power consumption (full operation per data rate connection 4W at 5 Gbps with full length 100 M Cat5e
speed)
IEEE standards compliance (example 802.1P) IEEE 802.3an/bz
Hardware Certifications (example FCC, B, GS mark…) NBASE-T TM Alliance PHY
Boot ROM Support UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) 2.3/2.5, PXE
(Preboot Execution Environment) 2.0
Operating System Driver Support Windows 11, 10, 8.1, 8.0, and 7 (32-Bit/64-Bit), Linux 3.2, 3.10,
3.12, 4.2 and 4.4
Graphics specifications
This section captures the detailed graphics specifications of the system.
Storage specifications
This section captures the detailed storage specifications of the system.
NOTE: For hard drives, GB means 1 billion bytes ; actual capacity varies with pre-loaded material and operating environment
and will be less.
8x Slimline DVD-ROM
External Dimensions (Without Bezel - W x H x D) 128.0 mm x 9.5mm x 26.1mm (5.05 ix0.37x4.97 inches)
Maximum Weight 140 g
Interface type and Maximum speed SATA 1.5Gbit/s
Disc Capacity standard
Internal buffer size 0.5 MB
Access Times (typical) supplier dependent
Maximum Data Transfer Rates
Writes NA
Reads 8x DVD/ 24x CD
Power Source
DC Power Requirements 5V
DC Current 1300 mA
Environmental Operating Conditions (Non-condensing)
Temperature Range 5°C to 50°C
Relative Humidity Range 10% to 90% RH
Maximum Wet Bulb Temperature 29°C
Altitude Range 0 to 3048 m
Environmental Non-Operating Conditions (Non-
condensing)
Contacting Dell
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42 Getting help