[asterisk-users] intel vs amd motherboards

Kai Fürstenberg asterisk at fuerstenberg.ws
Wed Jul 5 07:47:22 MST 2006


Hello Varun,

varun wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I want to setup a small asterisk PBX.
> 
> Should I use an Intel based system or 
> AMD based system ?
> 
> Which platform is better suited if at
> all there is difference ?
> 
> And if I were to use AMD platform then
> any issues if I were to use a 64bit arch.
> 
> Most good boards seem to be for 64bit.
> 
> My distros in both case would be CentOS.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Varun

Asterisk works on a i486 with 100MHz.

If you want to handle, lets say 1000 calls or more at the same time, you 
should of course use a better processor. In my opinion, it doesn't 
matter whether you use Intel or AMD, because you said it will be a small 
Asterisk.

Kai



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