[asterisk-users] Asterisk and MiniITX setups

[Gordon Henderson]

On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Paul wrote:

> Doug Lytle wrote:
>
>> C F wrote:
>>
>>> Gordon, how did you get such good numbers?
>>>
>>> model name      : VIA Esther processor 1200MHz
>>> cpu MHz         : 399.054
>>>
>> Is this accurate?  A 1200mhz cpu running at 399?  Under clocked?
>>
> Maybe it is intentionally underclocked to run without a cpu fan.

My money would be on accidental incorrect BIOS settings - eg. "Load Safety 
defaults" setting or something. I did have one of hese boards do this on 
me after I had to do a NV-RAM clear after screwing up the video system!

These VIA processors are quite hardy - I could probably overclock them if 
needed - the 1GHz ones I'm using run cool to the point of being cold, as 
do the 533MHz ones I'm using. I have a couple of 1.2GHz ones with fans, 
(in a router application) and the fans are temperature controlled directly 
by the motherboard, and I've tried my hardest to get them to spin up when 
in-use and they stubbornly stay off!

(they do spin up at boot time, so I know they do work! but for other 
applications - eg. totally fanless set-top boxes, these are the works and 
some of them have hardware Mpeg decode - which is OT for asterisk though!)


Gordon