On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 03:10, Tzafrir Cohen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 08:00:38AM +0000, Gordon Henderson wrote: >> On Sun, 22 Feb 2009, Doug wrote: > >> Interesting shopping list - I've just built a new server for my co-lo and >> it's an Intel Atom mobo. Normally I do use AMD though, but right now, >> power consumption is an issue and hen AMD's low power chips are >> mainstream, I'll look at usin them.. >> >> My dual-core Atom mobo with 1GB RAM, 2 x WDC drives consumes just 42 >> watts. Which means it will run at room temperatures without any issues >> with no case fans. (although the co-lo has 2+1 AC) > > If power consumption is a concern, also concider some Via CPUs. >
AMD also has dual-core 45w CPU's. Not as efficient as Intel Atom or VIA, but quite a bit more powerful. I use on on my desktop PC -- with other systems I notice the room gets warm, but not when using a 45w AMD. For my deployed Asterisk servers, they are pretty old -- either AMD Opteron 939 (I think those are at least 89, if not 110 watts!) pins dual core or 478 pin Pentium 4 (2-3ghz) -- but they run just fine. I think I would concentrate more on getting high-quality mainboard, power supply and RAM than what the CPU speed is, unless you plan to have heavy traffic. Who cares how fast the CPU is if you have a PCCHIPS board with generic RAM and an off-brand "500 watt" PSU (that really gives off 200 watts) that all make the system unstable? _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
