asterisk users - Sep 2004 - Suggested Motherboard for TE410P

Hi all,

I'm looking for a new system which will use the TE410P. Originally I was
going to use a dual Athlon MP system, but my supplier tells me these are
being phased out now, and so will be difficult to find replacement parts
later.

So, I am looking for suggestions of suitable motherboards with 3.3V PCI
slots for the following CPU types (in order of my personal preference)
AMD Opteron 1xx Series
AMD Athlon 64
Intel whatever... I don't really know the Intel range, since I don't
like them much and never use them, but it looks like I might be running
out of options.

Overall, I don't really need a lot of power, the system will have upto
20 channels via zap devices, with up to 20 channels a-law sip devices.
It may need to transcode to gsm or something for about 5 channels max,
over IAX2 at any one time.
>From what I understand, the worst case would be having to transcode from
alaw to g729, which hopefully will not be required.

PS, in case you are wondering, I (and my supplier) have spent hours
looking at different motherboard specs, and so far haven't been able to
find anything suitable (except a dual opteron motherboard and just using
a single CPU).

Thanks,
Adam

Hi Adam-

I'm wondering if the TE405P might be a better choice, since it's 5 volt
PCI
and may allow you to consider a wider selection of motherboards.  Sounds
like you may not need the latest and fastest motherboards, which often use
the 64bit 3.3v slots as you've probably found.

Regards
Scott Stingel


Scott M. Stingel
President,
Emerging Voice Technology, Inc.
Palo Alto California & London England
www.evtmedia.com 

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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Adam Goryachev
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 7:47 PM
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Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Suggested Motherboard for TE410P

Hi all,

I'm looking for a new system which will use the TE410P. Originally I was
going to use a dual Athlon MP system, but my supplier tells me these are
being phased out now, and so will be difficult to find replacement parts
later.

So, I am looking for suggestions of suitable motherboards with 3.3V PCI
slots for the following CPU types (in order of my personal preference) AMD
Opteron 1xx Series AMD Athlon 64 Intel whatever... I don't really know the
Intel range, since I don't like them much and never use them, but it looks
like I might be running out of options.

Overall, I don't really need a lot of power, the system will have upto 20
channels via zap devices, with up to 20 channels a-law sip devices.
It may need to transcode to gsm or something for about 5 channels max, over
IAX2 at any one time.
>From what I understand, the worst case would be having to transcode 
>from
alaw to g729, which hopefully will not be required.

PS, in case you are wondering, I (and my supplier) have spent hours looking
at different motherboard specs, and so far haven't been able to find
anything suitable (except a dual opteron motherboard and just using a single
CPU).

Thanks,
Adam


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Adam Goryachev wrote:
> PS, in case you are wondering, I (and my supplier) have spent hours
> looking at different motherboard specs, and so far haven't been able to
> find anything suitable (except a dual opteron motherboard and just using
> a single CPU).
VIA K8T800 Pro chipset boards that support Athlon 64 and 3.3v/5v PCI:

MSI K8T Neo2-F

nVidia nForce 3 (or )Ultra chipset boards that support Athlon 64 and 
3.3v/5v PCI (PCI-2.3 even):

MSI K8N Neo Platinum
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum