Let's discuss SBCs ITT, what we're looking at, what we have, what we use it for, etc.
Here's an incomplete list of common SBCs out there for newcomers. >arduino >banana pi >beaglebone >C.H.I.P >cubieboard >dragonboard >orange pi >ODROID >PINE >raspberry pi >VIA
I'm wanting to get a knockoff Arduino starter kit. Mainly for learning assembly, and embedded C programming.
I'm leaning towards getting the Mega because it has 256k vs 16k of flash storage. The first thing I want to make is a play pretend hardware accelerator for huffman encoding compression.
Off topic but what sensor modules are neat to play with?
Ayden Mitchell
What's the board pictured? The VGA and SATA ports are very intriguing for my project:
I have an original iMac that's sorta-broken and I want to replace the motherboard with something more interesting (but keep the CRT because why not). A proper PC wouldn't fit unless I also replace the CRT with an LCD, so something like the raspberry pi is ideal, except that HDMI output is counterproductive.
It's a VIA, x86 quad core epia. Not sure which model, but you might be better off with the VIA c4650 instead
Luke Flores
Oh dang it's x86? I could probably run a classic mac emulator on that haha (Thanks for the info!)
Benjamin Gutierrez
is there any of these really good for a homebuilt nas? can also be mini itx really but am definitely looking for something small but able to handle 4 or more drives
Isaac Scott
Is Orange Pi Plus 2 good enough to use as my main computer ? My only concern is it only has 2 GB RAM, definitely not enough for VM.
I think we should compile a list of notable SBC, alongside with price, RAM, CPU, GPU and whether it has hardware issue (like odroid)
Asher Lee
Do you know of any other boards with VGA support that don't cost $300+?
Angel Mitchell
your phone has an ARM
it's basically the best, low power, general purpose processor in history
Connor Watson
Are there any with ECC and SATA ports? I want a low-power NAS, but the options for that are limited.
Dylan Davis
Only one I know is VIA. C.H.I.P uses svideo iirc, which you can adapt to vga pretty easily I think
Levi Stewart
What's a good seedbox?
CubieBoard tends to overheat and go into coma while rtorrent is checking the checksum, requiring manual reboot.
Nicholas Bell
>CubieBoard tends to overheat Have you tried attaching a heatsink?
Austin Morris
Did you try a heatsink? Your can buy 5 for a dollar or so from China
Juan Edwards
Heatsink reduced the frequency of overheating, but it still goes into coma every week or so.
Jaxson Wright
How is that even possible?
Isaiah Cox
Maybe I got the one with shit-bin chip.
But, overheating and going into coma does seem to other people's cubieboards too if Google search results are anything to go by.
Chase Long
Which cubie? I have the 2 with rtorrent running at it never overheats.
Joshua Mitchell
Looks like it has composite built in, and they sell a VGA adapter. I think I'll go with chip!
Also could I use an orange pi as a substitute desktop on my tv with Linux?
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I have to say that doing stuff that might matter on a MicroSD card makes me nervous. Are MicroSDs actually reliable in the long term?
Hunter Gutierrez
arduino is for real programmers because you have to write low level C. anything you can just write python on, you might as well use an old phone board, because it's the same thing, but in a better form factor and more powerful
Charles Stewart
> thinking arduino is low level
Colton Wright
My phone runs on Intel Atom and x86.
Michael Walker
So whats the most powerful SBC around? (preferably x86/x64)
Kevin Howard
Are thinclients the cheapest way of acquiring an x86 SBC?
Jace Garcia
Intel Compute Sticks likely are up there.
Brody Davis
I've only had one fail on me, but that was my own fault for putting it in my coin pouch.
Intel couldn't compete at both performance and efficiency so they merged atom with another line and just gave up.
VIA c4650z athlon 5350 cpu performance and pcie slot for gpu
Cooper Moore
There's no z in that, typo sorry.
Jonathan Ramirez
>Intel couldn't compete at both performance and efficiency I have some cheap Baytrail products that say otherwise. Similarly my Zenfone 2 ran circles around 808/810/801. The 805 for some reason (Nexus 6 Shamu Note4) was a different story for some reason.
Cameron Rivera
PC Engines makes something like that, but they don't have ECC working yet.
Charles Kelly
>arduino You mean Atmel?
Nolan White
>PC Engines
You might as well just buy a proper server at that price point.
Brandon Johnson
I've been checking this out and I would buy this if I hadn't funded the novena.
My biggest complaint is they seem to have no roadmap for future upgrades. What point is the EOMA68 form factor if you are forever stuck on the same slow ass dual core arm chip. Secondly the form factor seems to only allow for a very small thermal envelope. Anything more than a few watts needs a type III form factor and heatsink which I don't think they suuport. I will only buy another low end desktop processor if it is a RISC-V or equivalent open processor. I don't need another piece of arm hardware I barely use.
Kevin Hughes
Well if you want fucking ECC then you're going to be paying a fuckload, especially for ECC on an SBC.
Nathan Martin
Anyone knows of a fast x86 SBC with dual ethernet and SATA?
Blake Wilson
Is this worth 26€? I want to make a cheap and quiet seedbox/home server
Isaac Phillips
PC Engines makes something like that. You can even get triple Ethernet.
Noah Taylor
Never heard of them. Where do I buy it? And can you point me in the direction of the one with ECC?
Even if it's pricey, it's probably not as expensive as the Avoton boards like the C2750 that are $300-400+
Henry Butler
pcengines.ch/apu2c4.htm ECC isn't working on it yet. I'm not even sure if they're making progress with it either. Mine ended up costing around 200 dollars with all the goodies I wanted.
Sebastian Robinson
What's the cheapest SBC I can use as an HTPC?
Really all I need is some basic OS that can play H.264 and VC-1 files, and 1 USB port + 1 video/audio out.
Henry Reyes
Orange pi pc should be less than $20 from aliexpress and can play h.264 4k videos iirc
Kayden King
Probably one of the android tv boxes.
There was one the kodi forums people were hyping since it had good performance.
I wouldn't bother with rpi, it will end up costing the same as a decent android tv box when you factor in all the other stuff you need.
And at the end of the day you're still stuck with 10/100 ethernet sharing the usb bus
Adrian Baker
Yes that's exactly why Intel didn't drop the atom line
Brayden Ross
This, but hevc x265 10bit, anyone?
Wyatt Smith
Why don't we have any SBCs with older but still relatively powerful components like the Heliox10 or Snapdragon 801 and 2, 3, or 4GB ram?
>139usd >no nand >no windows licence >no sata >no pcie
I feel like they might have blown too much of the budget on that Intel chip.
Was hoping to pay maybe 75-80usd for an ARM one for some web browsing and emulation.
Ayden Wright
Has anyone gotten a Creator CI40? I've got a CI20 and was wondering if I should just get another one or go for the new one.
Will I be able to run LiteBSD on my Pinguino Micro?
Sebastian Adams
Bump
Oliver Cook
what & where?
Angel Flores
Step back, plebs
The one, true singleboard computer is here
Ryan Nguyen
Probably some shit netbook or mobo on amazon.
Look at that cpu, bleh, outdated atom shit is such a pain to work with.
No one cares about the drivers and performance is slower than granny taking a shit
Leo Barnes
You can get a proper xeon server for 200$. Not this amd shit.
Colton Cook
a xeon server with unrasinable power draw
nice try jew
Justin Campbell
Why would you raisin the power draw?
Brandon Anderson
Not everybody needs to an ultra-low power server for their home server.
Evan Rodriguez
If only those were actually PCMCIA compatible, those would have a pretty damn good niche as bridge boxes for legacy systems.
Benjamin Hall
This is the detailed hardware specification of SBC that I compiled, source of the information is from Wikipedia.
Brody Collins
I have two goals I want to achieve. First is to set up a little machine for torrenting. This should be easy with Raspbian and Deluge.
Second, I want to set up a machine for connecting to the television. I know I can use OSMC.
What would be great though, that I am unsure about is can I set up one system which can accomplish both of these goals. Am I right in thinking that I can just install Kodi on Raspbian?
Landon James
Orange pi pc x2.
Alexander Bell
C.H.I.P is a piece of shit avoid all cost
Brayden Rivera
>Orange pi pc Serious question, Is this the best value option? How's performance? Smooth 720p YouTube playback?
Juan Miller
???
Adrian Richardson
> why dont you guys just get a mac mini?
>"""future-proof"""" htpc, literally, much better than what you are trying to build >only a little bit more expensive >no need for peripherals >better OS >2TB hard drive >HDMI >4k video >streaming server >ssh >can program it (write C programs to control the screen >or use built in screen sharing
Oliver Rodriguez
I'm searching for a computer + uC solution for a quadcopter (uC for real time needs and computer for computer vision), as far as I know, the BBB is the only common board that have both of those on a single board, are there other solutions out there?
Joseph Barnes
I need a dual lan board for pfsense, I can never seem to find one that isn't $200
Joseph Ortiz
Only a little more than 18 dollars for a mac mini with a 2tb hard Drive?
Matthew Stewart
just make sure its a 32 bit mcu
Charles Robinson
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John Gutierrez
>No serial port by default
Why VIA WHY?!?!?!
Isaiah Reyes
>Arduino >Low level
Unless your using Atmel studio(insert your preference here) and doing all your programing live via a programer in assembly your not doing any low level programing at all nigger.
Robert Cox
Is this the one one with coreboot support? I keep trying to find the 4 gb ECC ram version to replace my router but they don't ship to europe T_T
Easton Russell
I'm using osmc and transmission on a pi 2. Works fine
Charles Bell
HP t5740 thinclient on ebay
Jaxson Howard
I have a Raspberry Pi 2 B+ that I bought last year and I haven't even used it yet. What can I do with it? Any idea friends?
Charles Garcia
You could install an OS on it. And then do what your desktop could do anyway.
Thomas Jenkins
What would you use a serial port for? I'm not trying to imply that it's useless/unnecessary. I'm asking because the only devices that use serial ports that I've seen in the last five years are some network devices which have a console that can be accessed through RS232
Jackson Peterson
>msata pci-e
Does that slot support both msata and mpcie devices?
Parker Sanchez
With how old that is I doubt it supports mSATA on that Mini PCI Express slot.
Ryder Wilson
My Xeon 1240v2 is bretty chill lad
>passively cooled >one case fan
Chase Turner
No idea, it was meant for a wifi card But the PCIe slot is proprietary, you need an extension for it, pic related Then you can use a PCI or PCIe 4x card
Prolly has very limited usefulness (if not downright useless), but it does what it says on the tin, that is to at least expose kids with babby programming
Joseph Gomez
What do you people even do with these credit-card mini PCs? Too poor to even buy a generic desktop PC?