This looks like blatant advertising to
me.
The brand of motherboard is not nearly as important as
the chipset used. All motherboards use the same basic reference design
and generic BIOS firmware that is usually provided to them by the chipset
manufacturer. The main differences now a days are the quality of
components used. Some of the cheaper name brands cut corners on the quality of
capacitors and what not. That even includes ASUS for some of their
lower cost boards. YMMV!
Intel is not a chipset it is a company that makes
many many many chipsets. A newer chipset/BIOS that (properly) supports
APIC is recommended by many including Digium. Any newer Xeon chipset is a
fairly sure bet IMHO. Higher end newer desktop chipsets should work
ok. The much less expensive 3rd party chipsets such as SIS seem to have a
decent track record. It depends on your application.
Cutting corners on your hardware is not a good idea if
the business requires the phones to be highly reliable. It may work ok for
awhile or it may not. Either way it's not a good idea IMHO. On the
other hand, for my home office I have no hesitation in using an inexpensive
destop PC with newer SIS based motherboard. I would NEVER consider using
that same PC in an office with several incoming lines and a bunch of
extensions.
Whatever you do, use something that is guaranteed to
work. Getting a newer more expensive PC or server is still no
guarantee. Test and test and test some more. Once you are sure you
have something that works well then stick with that EXACT same
configuration. That includes BIOS revision. Don't assume any change
will go smoothly. Test and test and test some more before releasing to a
production environment. This conservative approach is what most well run
IT departments follow and IP PBX applications should be treated the same
way.
My 2 cents.
From: Matt Florell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 7:59 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Motherboard and processor recommendations
MATT---
On 9/8/05, Martin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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 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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