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 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 _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
