asterisk users - Mar 2009 - A400P + Intel D201GLY2(A) motherboard?

Hello

I'd like to build myself an Asterisk server for SOHO use. Intel's 
D201GLY2 motherboard (http://tinyurl.com/ddarzp) looks like a very 
good deal, but I'm concerned about two things:

1. Will an A400P (from OpenVox, but supposed to be Digium-compatible 
http://tinyurl.com/ck6nfu) fit with a PCI riser, or will the CPU 
heatsink/fan be in the way? I downloaded the PDF from OpenVox's site, 
but didn't find the size of each PCI card

2. Performance, especially if there's the need for software echo cancelling

If someone here has used this motherboard to build an Asterisk 
server, could you answer the questions, at least the first one?

Thank you.

On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Gilles wrote:
> Hello
>
> I'd like to build myself an Asterisk server for SOHO use. Intel's
> D201GLY2 motherboard (http://tinyurl.com/ddarzp) looks like a very
> good deal, but I'm concerned about two things:
>
> 1. Will an A400P (from OpenVox, but supposed to be Digium-compatible
> http://tinyurl.com/ck6nfu) fit with a PCI riser, or will the CPU
> heatsink/fan be in the way? I downloaded the PDF from OpenVox's site,
> but didn't find the size of each PCI card
It depends on the riser and the case you use - if it extends out away from 
the board, you'll not have any issues, (pizza box type case) but if it 
doubles-back over the board (shuttle/cube type case) then there may not be 
enough headroom. (The fan/heatsink looks high, but can't really tell from 
the photos)
> 2. Performance, especially if there's the need for software echo
cancelling
Zero issues with it's performance for SOHO use IMO. I don't use that 
processor/board, but do use 1GHz VIA processors. Oslec works great on 
openvox cards.

Gordon

Gilles wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I'd like to build myself an Asterisk server for SOHO use. Intel's 
> D201GLY2 motherboard (http://tinyurl.com/ddarzp) looks like a very 
> good deal, but I'm concerned about two things:
> 
> 1. Will an A400P (from OpenVox, but supposed to be Digium-compatible 
> http://tinyurl.com/ck6nfu) fit with a PCI riser, or will the CPU 
> heatsink/fan be in the way? I downloaded the PDF from OpenVox's site, 
> but didn't find the size of each PCI card
> 
The card goes the other way, it doesn't go on top of the board. Well, at 
least there are risers going away from the board, I don't know if there 
are any going on top of it.
> 2. Performance, especially if there's the need for software echo
cancelling
> 
I did some tests on it, not many. Without going higher than 2.0 load 
average I managed to do 10 calls per second, lasting 5 seconds each. 
During those 5 seconds, 2 sound files were played (sln). MySQL CDR was 
enabled, so that's also 10 DB writes/second.

I don't know exactly what board it was, but the processor was a Atom 
<=2,2GHz. It had fan.

Two cards were used at the same time, one B400P and one A800, both Openvox.

Paulo Santos > I did some tests on it, not many. Without going higher 
than 2.0 load average I managed to do 10 calls per second, lasting 5 
seconds each. During those 5 seconds, 2 sound files were played 
(sln).  MySQL CDR was enabled, so that's also 10 DB writes/second. I 
don't know exactly what board it was, but the processor was a Atom 
<=2,2GHz. It had fan.

Thanks guys. So for SOHO use to handle only one incoming POTS line, I 
guess I can go for the (Atom Dual Core 230) D201GLY2 instead of the 
(Atom Dual Core 330) D201GLY2A.

Just have to find an affordable case to hold the mobo and a PCI FXO 
card, and I'm ready to go :)