Dear List , I have to make a choice between TE407P (5.0V PCI slot) and TE420BF (3.3V PCI express).
I have a IBM x220 with 2 x 1.2 GHz PIII CPU and OnBoard SCSI Ultra160 Drives but it does not have PCI Express slot. So i cannot use TE420BF with it. The system i am willing to build should support upto 60 voice channels and there will be at least 10 channels under call recording. My question is will the CPU power (2 * 1200 MHz PIII ) and the PCI bus (33 MHz bus) be sufficient to handle the load ? I can always buy the card and test , and if the need be i can put the card (TE407P) on the 5 V PCI slot of any modern motherboard also, the question here is , Am i loosing anything by not buying a PCI-Express card and instead going for a normal 33MHz , 5.0 V PCI card ? to summarise is TE407P in anyway inferior to TE420BF Card ? does TE407P saturate the 33mhz PCI bus when all voice channels are used ? The most new mobos are having 5.0V PCI slots , PCI x1 and x16 slots, so if i buy te407p i test it with the old ibm x220 server and if need be i can use it with the newer mobos. regds Rajesh Kumar Mallah. _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
