[Asterisk-Users] Kind of Computer to use

[Sean Cook]

FYI, Dell is offering a $299 Poweredge 2.8Ghz, 256M with two 80gig SATA
drives.  I just bought one and have two TDM400P's loaded.  I will let
you know how it goes...  

On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 19:57 -0600, Tomas Florian wrote:
> I had a recent bad experience with Compaq with asterisk.  For some
> reason it could not be forced to put my PCI cards on anything other
> than IRQ 11.  This is a major problem because when all the cards (2
> xnetwork,2x FXS) are active and generate interrupts it chops up the
> sound quality.
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> I was trying to convince the bios to split it up for 2 days but then I
> gave up.  Mind you, this is not a very powerful system at all so on a
> faster machine it might not be a problem (it could just handle the
> interrupts fast enough without making the sound choppy).  But I would
> think that no matter how fast the machine is it’s always better to
> have the IRQs split up and not shared.  I never tried on dell yet ….
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> Tomas
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> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 6:33 PM
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> Hi,
> I am building PBX's for clients. I was thinking of using Dell
> computers. I was told that they do not work well with asterisk. Any
> one have any suggestions ? Any other brands that work well with
> asterisk ? Also any specific hardware to or not to use ? Finally does
> that Mac Mini work well with asterisk ? Thanks a lot.
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> Dovid
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