[Asterisk-Users] Motherboard and processor recommendations

[Dave Cotton]

On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 12:01 +0300, Soner Tari wrote:
> Thanks Tzafrir and canuck15 for your comments.
> 
> Yes I don't think the NIC will be saturated, and I'll search the quality of 
> the Onboard RAID. I guess I have to learn more about canuck15's comments 
> though, because I am actually questioning what happens to the board when 
> you're adding onboard peripherals and whether that would create problems 
> with, say, Digium cards. I remember I've read comments on the list saying 
> that some chipsets/motherboards cannot handle the interrupt frequency that 
> Digium cards demand, thus miss some interrupts. So, even though a regular 
> desktop user would not notice any problems, an Asterisk server would suffer 
> a lot. 

That's exactly what I'm getting right now.

I've got an MSI KT6 Delta M/B with an AMD Barton 2.5 which has given no
problems as my main desktop machine, with an SCSI card in it etc. It
cannot handle 2 Digium cards a TDM400 and a X100P.

  
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Dave Cotton <dcotton at linuxautrement.com>