On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Steven Critchfield wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 12:34, Gary Gapinski wrote: > > Does anyone have recommendations for (or against) mini-ITX platforms to > > be used with Wildcard X100P and TDM400P cards? > > > > I am considering the use of systems using VIA EPIA CL and Epia M as > > small, quiet platforms on which to host Asterisk. > > It has been covered here before that those are i586 level chips, so be > prepared for the actual horsepower you will get out of them. If you > don't do much VoIP, it will probably be fine. I think there is even a > person or 2 here already using them as thats why we know about the i586 > problem. What about the newer chip (the Nehemiah)? I have an 800mhz version of the older system/core that's clearly i586 architecture doing some PVR stuff (I have a tuner card with mpeg encoding builtin, so the lack of horsepower is a non-issue), however I *believe* the newer Nehemiah core is i686 compatable. I do know they've added hardware RNG, SSE/SIMD extensions, and a full speed floating point unit to the processor. The motherboard also has an updated north/south bridge, utilizing PC2100/DDR266 RAM, comes with USB2.0 and firewire integrated, and moves from 1 ATA100 to 2 ATA133 channels. It'd sure be a waste to couple all of that nice hardware to an antiquated i586 chip. (and the best is a board+chip+case can be accomplished for around $200USD) Can anyone confirm if they've added what was necessary to bring the chip up to the i686 level? A brief overview of the new Nehemiah features can be seen at http://www.mini-itx.com/reviews/nehemiah/?page=3#s05 I'll have one of these machines in hand probably early next week, so maybe I can do some testing before I move it into the role of my new PVR (those damn trans-encodes from mpeg to streamable formats take too darn long on the 800! :) -Pat > -- > Steven Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
