Re: [Asterisk-Users] mini-ITX suggestions

[Leo Ann Boon]

We just got 1 Nehemiah in the office. Performance-wise it's pretty much 
a P3-class machine, IIRC the FPU is running at full clock speed compared 
to the 800MHz version. We do have problem booting a 686 optimized kernel 
on it. Can't install White Box Enterprise Linux (community distro based 
on RedHat Advance Server 3.0) but RH 8 works fine. The box we have takes 
2 PCI cards beautifully, but no * yet. I'd * running on the 800MHz box. 
It's works fine as long as you're not using too much floating point 
(i.e. avoid compression/decompression on the box). My setup had one 
XP101 connected to one 1 DG104S MGCP gateway and one BATM MGCP gateway. 
Works pretty well without MOH (MP3=FPU). MeetMe works fine. I'd an early 
TDM400 hooked up to it for a while, but gave up because of the massive 
amount of PSU noise. YMMV.

FYI.

Patrick Cantwell wrote:

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



 

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