[Asterisk-Users] Motherboard and processor recommendations

[Martin]

On Thursday 08 September 2005 08:33, Chris wrote:
>     Generally I have used Intel Chipsets on ASUS motherboards.     I've
> always used Kingston RAM.      I've used Intel P4 CPU on S478 and LGA775.
> The Asus boards almost always have NIC and sometimes on board VGA.   I've
> not had any problems with the hardware.
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Chris

I agree.  I stick with Asus.  Try www.zipzoomfly.com  They do free 2nd day on 
most items.  This was a recent order I had with them (check the current 
prices yourselves).

 80699-R 	 AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Processor Socket 754 Retail *** Free 2nd Day 
*** 	 $146.00
240415 	Asus K8V-X Via K8T800 Athlon 64/Sempron Skt754 DDR ATX Motherboard 
w/Audio, Gigabit LAN Retail ***Free 2nd Day*** 	$79.99
80098-29 	Kingston KVR400X72C3A/1G 1GB DDR400 PC3200 ECC Memory Retail ***Free 
2nd Day*** 	$112.00
101213-1 	Western Digital Caviar SE WD2000JD 200GB Serial ATA 7200RPM Hard 
Drive w/8MB Buffer *** Free 2nd Day *** 	$105.00
174226 	LG GSA-4163BI 16X Super-Multi Internal DVD Rewriter (Beige) Retail 
***Free 2nd Day*** 	$60.00

NOTE: the excellent price on the 1GB Kingstone memory, with ECC (Error 
Correction), the K8V-X has settings for the ECC in bios ie. it really works. 


> > 1. Would I have problems with all-onboard motherboards (Onboard VGA,
> > LAN/GLAN, Sound, SATA, RAID) ? I've read the comment about an Onboard VGA
> > on wiki.

What RAID ?  There are several versions.  RAID-1 mirror is on the K8V-X.

If you want RAID-5, then the Asus K8N-E DELUXE perhaps.  I don't know as I 
don't have one.

> > 4. How important is the number of PCI slots? I mean, considering that
> > I've read some comments on this list, which do not recommend more than 2
> > TDM cards on a single system (right?), 2-3 PCI slots should be enough, is
> > this correct? (But beware this also means an all-onboard motherboard, in
> > most cases.)


That, unfortunately is a legacy intel bios (4-bit) issue.  Only 16 (0-15) 
interrupts.  pci has a fix aka bodge by sharing.  One day, they will 
(hopefully) move to 8-bit (or more) and we can have 255 and easily one for 
each device.

Regards...Martin