[Asterisk-Users] Motherboard and processor recommendations

[Chris]

    I've had lots of luck with the Intel/Asus and I am the part supplier.

Chris


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt Florell" <astmattf at gmail.com>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 9:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Motherboard and processor recommendations


We have 14 Asterisk servers with Asus/Intel in production at our four 
locations. We very much recommend them and also go through
zipzoomfly.com<http://zipzoomfly.com>to buy the parts.

MATT---

On 9/8/05, Martin <marrandy at chaossolutions.org> wrote:
> 
> 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<http://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
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