[Asterisk-Users] mini-ITX suggestions

[Leo Ann Boon]

We just got 1 Nehemiah in the office. Performance-wise it's pretty much 
a P3-class machine, IIRC the FPU is running at full clock speed compared 
to the 800MHz version. We do have problem booting a 686 optimized kernel 
on it. Can't install White Box Enterprise Linux (community distro based 
on RedHat Advance Server 3.0) but RH 8 works fine. The box we have takes 
2 PCI cards beautifully, but no * yet. I'd * running on the 800MHz box. 
It's works fine as long as you're not using too much floating point 
(i.e. avoid compression/decompression on the box). My setup had one 
XP101 connected to one 1 DG104S MGCP gateway and one BATM MGCP gateway. 
Works pretty well without MOH (MP3=FPU). MeetMe works fine. I'd an early 
TDM400 hooked up to it for a while, but gave up because of the massive 
amount of PSU noise. YMMV.

FYI.


Patrick Cantwell wrote:

>On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Steven Critchfield wrote:
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>>On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 12:34, Gary Gapinski wrote:
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>>>Does anyone have recommendations for (or against) mini-ITX platforms to
>>>be used with Wildcard X100P and TDM400P cards?
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>>>I am considering the use of systems using VIA EPIA CL and Epia M as
>>>small, quiet platforms on which to host Asterisk.
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>>It has been covered here before that those are i586 level chips, so be
>>prepared for the actual horsepower you will get out of them. If you
>>don't do much VoIP, it will probably be fine. I think there is even a
>>person or 2 here already using them as thats why we know about the i586
>>problem.
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>What about the newer chip (the Nehemiah)? I have an 800mhz version of the
>older system/core that's clearly i586 architecture doing some PVR stuff (I
>have a tuner card with mpeg encoding builtin, so the lack of horsepower is
>a non-issue), however I *believe* the newer Nehemiah core is i686
>compatable.  I do know they've added hardware RNG, SSE/SIMD extensions,
>and a full speed floating point unit to the processor. The motherboard
>also has an updated north/south bridge, utilizing PC2100/DDR266 RAM, comes
>with USB2.0 and firewire integrated, and moves from 1 ATA100 to 2 ATA133
>channels.  It'd sure be a waste to couple all of that nice hardware to an
>antiquated i586 chip. (and the best is a board+chip+case can be
>accomplished for around $200USD)
>Can anyone confirm if they've added what was necessary to bring the chip
>up to the i686 level?
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>A brief overview of the new Nehemiah features can be seen at
>http://www.mini-itx.com/reviews/nehemiah/?page=3#s05
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>I'll have one of these machines in hand probably early next week, so maybe
>I can do some testing before I move it into the role of my new PVR (those
>damn trans-encodes from mpeg to streamable formats take too darn long on
>the 800! :)
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>-Pat
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>>Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>
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