Genuine Intel Atom x5-Z8350 quad core with 2M Cache. Runs up to 1.92GHz with a 480MHz GPU. Eats RPi for dessert. Beats some desktops. Loaded with memory: 2GB DDR3L-1600, 16GB eMMC, SD slot for adding more - up to 256GB Full HDMI port with Intel HD Graphics & primary audio out USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 ports Fast dual band WiFI b/g/n/ac 2.4 & 5GHz WiFi RT5572 IPX connectors on board Bluetooth 4.0 CR8510 Gigabit hardwired RJ45 Ethernet RTL8111G 9-axis inertial navigation sensor with compass BNO055 Secondary XMOS audio output with class-D power amp. TTL serial debug and expansion serial ports up to 3.6Mbps Real time clock & battery JST style connectors on top and a 26-pin header for power & GPIO below. Runs on 5V. Typically 4-15 watts. Legitimate licensed BIOS boots from SD, USB, or Ethernet. Linux comes preloaded... Yes, it'll run Win10 32 or 64. Large full breakout shield available with screw terminals for easy wiring, or order just the CPU and provide your own wiring.
Anyone have one or have any experience with them? I'm super excited to get one.
Forgot to mention it's only $35. Rasberry Pi's are now officially obsolete.
Xavier Peterson
good luck finding one, they are sold out everywhere.
Cool little board though.
Jonathan Peterson
only downside I seen is that it's 15w and requires a power brick, so you'll need to take that into consideration.
Caleb Morris
They have them on the website right now, but the breakout boards for the GPI/O power connector are sold out. ETA Prime has a good setup that just uses a 5 volt adapter converted to a two pin header that hooks right into the board.
I have seen it used with a 5 volt 4 amp adapter with no issues.
Michael Clark
>Intel So it's full of vulnerabilities that require performance gimping patches?
Connor Wilson
No VGA output. At this point I might as well build an atom computer to use for my emulation box.
Unless it actually has an automic clock inside of it, fuckin garbage
Jace Perez
5 rupies have been deposited into your accounr
Lucas Wright
Why do you need VGA in 2019? You can buy a box to convert HDMI to pretty much any other signal type anyways.
I'm not a big fan of Intel in recent years myself, bit that is a still a really cool little piece of tech. You can't deny that its enticing especially at that price. Pilets on suicide watch.
Brayden Harris
RGB output to a CRT TV. Right now the Wii is by far the best way to do this, but the Wii isn't powerful enough for N64 or PS1. It's also not good for media. Why watch 480i anime like Azumanga on my 4K TV when I can watch it on a CRT TV?
I can understand that (I have a lot of 480p stuff archived too) but they have breakout boxes that convert USB 3.0 to VGA for less than $20 US on Amazon. Pretty novel approach for connecting a secondary display. That would actually be really bad ass for even Dreamcast emulation, SCUMMVM, and DOSbox games too.
Isaac Reed
Those almost certainly can't do 240p, which is important for vidya. Converting an output to an input, and then back into an output also will add some kind of latency no matter what. VGA can easily be worked into RGBS for CRT TVs, which is why it's usually the preferred method.
Enjoy it for the 12-18 months it'll work before the clockgens just fuck out on you and then one day it just won't power back on after a powercycle. That's why these things are so cheap, Intel still has millions of these SoCs sitting around because everything ditched them after Gladden.
Thomas Bailey
>Beats some desktops. as in beats a 2003 desktop because the single core performance is AthlonXP tier not to mention emmc which is slower than dog shit.
Luke Russell
Only if you want unreliably hardware that will inevitably stop booting after 12-18 months, sure. This isn't something that might happen - this is something that WILL happen.
All listen to the king of the tards, latency is important for playing super mario!
Hunter Parker
Are you trying to say it doesn't?
Jace Campbell
Seems extremely neat.
>latency is important for playing super mario! Well, it is. It's important for anything dependent on user reactions, really. Congratulations on being a moron, I guess.
Christopher James
>be intel >pic related stockpiling because no one is buying this shit >break them open >ADD MORE RAM >copy the raspberry pi form factor >call it a new product
I stumbled on this page by chance just as I was looking into doing a retropie on 3 B+ system for the living room earlier today. Even had shit carted up. Is this a better option? It looks like it's not super newbie tard friendly compared to the rpi.
Dylan Rogers
>only 24 gpio pins
Kevin Ward
see:
Bentley Murphy
> Bay Trail, Braswell affected and even then only some series > Errata document doesn't even mention Cherry Trail even though it was published in late 2018 I'll call it FUD until you show me it affecting the chip on that thing.
Adrian Lewis
can it seed torrents at 1gbit?
Julian Morris
>no m.2 intothetrashitgoes.jpg
Julian Jones
This.
Yes. The only things he knows is marketing and basic specs but if you don't own one. "legitimately licensed bios" lol
It's all that processor can actually support according to Intel ark
Charles Gray
desperate
Thomas Murphy
>Only ships to the US Into the trash
Julian Murphy
This kills a lot of the high end arm boards but not the raspberry pi due size and power consumption.
Dylan Phillips
I have a /csg/ tablet with that CPU, it's slow but usable even in win10. It all depends on how fast that eMMC is.
Colton Adams
GPIO extenders are dime a dozen.
Lucas Baker
That's what you should do anyways and not Atom, but a APU machine with onboard VGA connector. Most people use that. It can even drive 15kHz RGB-H/V.
This little thing has many other qualities for other uses. Even the Pi will still have it's uses.
Gabriel Fisher
2gb is usless for virtualization why the fuck are they limiting ram
Adam Reyes
Because they are mostly for single purpose, not several things at once.
Leo Green
I am all for the lowest price for best performance and lowest power requirements. This does hold some interest. As someone who works in IT with many different systems I can tell you anything with m.2/NVMe into the trash it goes.
Logan Williams
Fucking hell I need to get one of these before a certain emulation youtuber gets one and says how good it is.
It should come with complete Windows 98SE drivers. Pre-y2k PC gaems running off 10 watts on a palm sized sbc. Why doesn't any manufacturer capitalize on the nostalgia?
Why the fuck would you want virtualization on an ultra-cheap computer the size of a palm?
Xavier Wilson
98SE can't handle 2GB of RAM.
Dominic Robinson
The effort required to write Win98 drivers for all of the hardware isn't worth it because running old games is already possible via emulation. Even those shitty Atoms support VT-x, so you can run 95/98 in VirtualBox without a huge performance penalty. For even older games, there's DosBox that runs on x86 and even on ARM SBCs (though significantly slower).
Wew lad, I thought it was smaller. That thing absolutely dwarfs RasPi.
How the fuck are they able to afford all that including CPU, memory, controllers, eMMC and a huge-ass heatsink at $35?
Ryan Thomas
why the fuck not? in 2008 that would be more than enough, nothing really changed
Bentley Harris
It's a dual core CPU with shit single-thread performance and Intel's shitty insecure hyper-threading, and you're asking why it's a bad idea to split it into virtual machines?
Again, are you quite fucking serious?
Brody Parker
The stuff to be virtualized has changed. You probably aren't going to run a 12-year-old distro or W2K3 in a VM nowadays.
And the 2GB limitation is due to the shitty tablet CPU, so even if they weren't going for the lowest price point, they couldn't have put 4GB there.
Liam Ortiz
Ackchually it's a quad core CPU with no hyper-threading.
>>awesome specs >>atom Yeah it is awesome compared to a top shelf RBP. Also, for all the faggots crying "b-b-but spectre and m-m-meltdown" its a $35 SBC: it's for projects, not storing sensative data, and the likelyhood of it being exploited are next to nothing.
Angel Lee
>I have seen it used with a 5 volt 4 amp adapter with no issues. and how many wats is that you melanin enriched individual of substandard mental faculties?
Cooper Flores
Nope. It's around the single core performance of a pre-2010 Core 2 CPU.
Xavier Morris
I have one of those chink mini PC's with the same cpu, I use it for some services that the RPi can't handle well.
It's not the same Atom that you had in netbooks 10 years ago, different microarchitecture.
Christopher Nguyen
>intel why even bother OP
Colton Smith
CRT tv's use YPbPr, not RGB. You are on the technology board. There were a few 1024x768 televisions with VGA input, and damn they looked good.
Nicholas Clark
VGA is the superior video standard
Robert Richardson
>It requires 15 Watts of power though >well yeah I've seen it run off a 20W supply, check mate >being this retarded
Elijah James
>CRT tv's use YPbPr, not RGB. You're an idiot.
Daniel Perez
>Intel Yeah stopped right there...
Angel Peterson
This is the only reason why I wouldn't buy this, I'd rather stick to a slower Rock64 that requires less blobs than proprietary Intel crap I would get one that was AMD based More importantly this Atom's are a ridiculous mess, they got hit really hard by Intel gimping validation
