On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Tim Panton wrote:
On 14 Feb 2007, at 16:37, shadowym wrote:
Hi there,
I'm looking for a compact fanless solution preferrably wall mountable and
not too exotic. It needs to be commercial grade. I don't really consider
most of the Via ITX solutions I have seen commercial grade but perhaps
someone can convince me otherwise.
No, I don't think they are commercial grade. I have 2 dead Via ITX
motherboards
out of 6 I've bought in the last couple of years.
And I have over a dozen newish Via CN1000 boards ticking away quietly in
various applications (mostly asterisk), 2 EK1000 boards (with variable
speed fans which never seem to come on) acting as routers, and 3 older (4
years) 533MHz boards still in daily use as my asterisk R&D systems, all
without issues so-far...
... which doesn't necessarily mean they are prefect, but they are working
for me.
The issue with "commercial grade" for me, at least is making the box not
look like a PC - there are mini ITX mobos with headers rather than
on-board sockets, etc. but then there's the additional engineering required
to put them in a custom box, and I'm not quite ready for that yet!
Wall mounting case:
http://www.icp-epia.co.uk/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=77
but it's a bit ugly (but does anyone care with wall mounting cases? Anyone
know of prettier ones I can get in the UK?)
There is a fanless Commell board:
http://www.icp-epia.co.uk/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=99
but it's only 600MHz, however it has 512KB of cache - the Via ones only
have 128KB, so that might make a little difference - My R&D systems at 533
MHz and 64KB cache seem very capable of running a small offices asterisk
needs - half a dozen handsets and a TDM400 card with 2 analogue lines
doesn't seem to impose any load on them at all... (GSM transcoding does,
however, but I've never tested them to their limits)
Gordon
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