We have 14 Asterisk servers with Asus/Intel in production at our four
locations. We very much recommend them and also go through
<a href="http://zipzoomfly.com">zipzoomfly.com</a> to buy the parts.<br>
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MATT---<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/8/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Martin</b> <<a href="mailto:marrandy@chaossolutions.org">marrandy@chaossolutions.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thursday 08 September 2005 08:33, Chris wrote:<br>> Generally I have used Intel Chipsets on ASUS motherboards. I've<br>> always used Kingston RAM. I've used Intel P4 CPU on S478 and LGA775.<br>> The Asus boards almost always have NIC and sometimes on board VGA. I've
<br>> not had any problems with the hardware.<br>><br>><br>> Regards,<br>><br>><br>> Chris<br><br>I agree. I stick with Asus. Try <a href="http://www.zipzoomfly.com">www.zipzoomfly.com</a> They do free 2nd day on
<br>most items. This was a recent order I had with them (check the current<br>prices yourselves).<br><br> 80699-R AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Processor Socket 754 Retail *** Free 2nd Day<br>*** $146.00<br>240415 Asus K8V-X Via K8T800 Athlon 64/Sempron Skt754 DDR ATX Motherboard
<br>w/Audio, Gigabit LAN Retail ***Free 2nd Day*** $79.99<br>80098-29 Kingston KVR400X72C3A/1G 1GB DDR400 PC3200 ECC Memory Retail ***Free<br>2nd Day*** $112.00<br>101213-1 Western Digital Caviar SE WD2000JD 200GB Serial ATA 7200RPM Hard
<br>Drive w/8MB Buffer *** Free 2nd Day *** $105.00<br>174226 LG GSA-4163BI 16X Super-Multi Internal DVD Rewriter (Beige) Retail<br>***Free 2nd Day*** $60.00<br><br>NOTE: the excellent price on the 1GB Kingstone memory, with ECC (Error
<br>Correction), the K8V-X has settings for the ECC in bios ie. it really works.<br><br><br>> > 1. Would I have problems with all-onboard motherboards (Onboard VGA,<br>> > LAN/GLAN, Sound, SATA, RAID) ? I've read the comment about an Onboard VGA
<br>> > on wiki.<br><br>What RAID ? There are several versions. RAID-1 mirror is on the K8V-X.<br><br>If you want RAID-5, then the Asus K8N-E DELUXE perhaps. I don't know as I<br>don't have one.<br><br>> > 4. How important is the number of PCI slots? I mean, considering that
<br>> > I've read some comments on this list, which do not recommend more than 2<br>> > TDM cards on a single system (right?), 2-3 PCI slots should be enough, is<br>> > this correct? (But beware this also means an all-onboard motherboard, in
<br>> > most cases.)<br><br><br>That, unfortunately is a legacy intel bios (4-bit) issue. Only 16 (0-15)<br>interrupts. pci has a fix aka bodge by sharing. One day, they will<br>(hopefully) move to 8-bit (or more) and we can have 255 and easily one for
<br>each device.<br><br>Regards...Martin<br>_______________________________________________<br>--Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by <a href="http://Easynews.com">Easynews.com</a> --<br><br>Asterisk-Users mailing list<br>
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