ODROID-XU4 Octa-Core SBC
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- čas přidán 15. 07. 2024
- ODROID-XU4 review, setup and demo, including installation of an eMMC card, and running Linux and Android operating systems on this single board computer.
My follow-up video in which I compare the ODROID-XU4 to the Raspberry Pi 3 and Asus Tinker Board (and run some benchmarks) is here: • ODROID-XU4 vs Tinker B...
You can learn more about the ODROID-XU4 on the Hardkernel website at: www.hardkernel.com/
You can purchase the ODROID-XU4 on Amazon here: amzn.to/2yVfUCe
The ODROID-XU4 wiki (which contains operating system images for the board) is at: wiki.odroid.com/odroid-xu4/od...
Note that in the video I described the ODROID-XU4's SoC as 64 bit. This was incorrect. The memory addressing is 64 bit, but the processor cores are 32 bit. Sorry for my mistake.
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You would make a perfect 1980's children's tv presenter
Very interesting, looking forwards to see the benchmarks
Mr. Barnatt, just wanted to say that I really appreciate the succinct delivery. This is how tech videos should be made.
Many thanks. :)
this mini computer is literally miles better than the computer i had just 3 years ago.
technology never ceases to impress and amaze me.
statorworks 345 You lucky person... my first computer had an 8 bit, 3.5mhz Z80 CPU and one Kilobyte of RAM. A Sinclair ZX81, bought in 1981 or '82. A mono cassette recorder to load and save programs, plugged in to a 12 inch black and white TV. Then I had a 16K ram pack for Christmas. A massive 16K of memory, that occasionally wobbled. 😁
I found an OG :) My dad had a Tandy color 2 with a cassette recorder. I regret not playing with it when I was a kid.
I always enjoy your videos on single board computers.
i love your sbc videos. its how i stay up to date on current sbc tech
This is a very interesting SBC. I am really looking forward to that comparison video between the Raspberry Pi3 and the Asus Tinker Board.
I have made that mistake myself many times (not cutting the bag far enough)! I lost it when he said "I've not cut well enough, have I?". Love these videos! Keep it up. :-)
Awesome, thanks for the tour ! Its great seeing the hardware overview and then seeing it in action (ubuntu MATE looked quite nice). Just seeing the OS in action provides a good sense of what these devices are able to do (application start times, browser scrolling and the system monitor). Will keep a keen eye out for the benchmark tests across devices, super curious how they all stack up :) Thanks again !
Great to be back on SBC's :) Bob
More ports than the macbook
That's one cool heatsink for an SBC.
I can't wait for the benchmarks! From what I saw, it seemed quite slow for all of those cores & emmc... but that may have just been perception! Thanks again, Mr. Barnatt!
Yes, I am looking forward to running the benchmarks as you say. I too have some perception issues here.
Great video, looking forward to the Tinker board v XU4
Very nice, and straight forward little SBC, and I really like the fact it has a fan(although a dust filter might be a wise upgrade) for some cooling. seems like it would make a nice little computer to attach to the back of some monitors for cheap office computers running Linux.
Looking forward to the next video on this SBC.
Hi Christopher, I enjoy your videos very much, eMMC boot switch, RTC backup, USB 3.0 ports very nice, shame the GPIO strip is separated.
Keep up the good work, cheers.
love your SBC stuff. I think im gonna get one of these to replace my desktop
Very good quality video, keep up the great work! Greetings from Slovakia ☺
another fine video from my favorite expert. thank you my friend
Great! The android system looks good, I could see myself running the xu4 with a 7” touchscreen and a high quality DAC to supplement my car’s standard head unit, thank you for this review
Thank you very much for this! I hadn't heard of this SBC before :D
Mr. Scissors is back from a long holiday! I'm sure he's glad to be back in the workforce. LOL :)
Interesting board. Certainly tempting. I look forward to you doing the comparison with pi 3
The comparison -- with the Pi 3 and Tinker Board -- uploads next Sunday (10 December).
You are the first person that I have heard pronounce MATE properly.
I really enjoy your videos, by the way. :-)
How do you know what the correct pronunciation? What the developer calls it to their mates or what most people decide to call it?
Dave W The developers who created Maté, have told everyone how to pronounce it.
It is a Linux desktop environment.
If you want to be sure how to pronounce it, here's the URL: mate-desktop.org
Hope that helps.
I turned away from the dark side a while ago and am a Linux fan now .... Ubuntu for preference .... but the question was who decides what the "right" pronunciation is? Tomato or Tomato (see the power of a mind worm) .... eather way the purpose is to communicate so maybe they are both "right" even if only one is correct?
Dave W
It's not how you decide to pronounce it.
The word is in Spanish, not English.
You pronounce it as *Ma-téh.* It's a type of tea that comes from South America.
The plant name is _Yerba_ _Maté._
It's not like pronouncing "potayto" or "potahto".
Great video and review. Chris! Also fun that Mr. Scissors not only got a cameo he got an encore! I've been interested in the XU4 for about a year now. In your comparison video when you run it against the Pi3 and maybe the Asus board i'd be interested to see if performance per watt of current used can be calculated. Everybody on youtube seems to want to bill this thing as a "Pi3 Killer!!". But if the development doesn't stick around neither will the board. The Pi has always had a good community development support. And likely will for the foreseeable future. I REALLY Like the XU4, though, and would like to see it stick around and not get lost in the flood of single board computers that are out there because there sure are plenty of them.
Excellent video - I really like this unit.
I like it especially with it's temperature controlled fan and RTC battery attachment! I wonder if it would make a fun little device for using SDR radios remotely.
thank you, that was very helpful as to what these little SBC can do.
always good to see Mr scissors :D
:D
i feel like I've gate crashed an Early Learning Centre introduction video.
no you most certainly have not gate crushed we welcome you from the jist of your comment you need some tuition and a refresher course on manners chris is always willing to teach people who are lacking in intelligence such as yourself so feel free to stick around and learn something
Darren Hold If you're not nice to people, Mr. Scissors will cut your fingers off so you can't type any more nonsense.
Dale Strickland-Clark I know the internet has come a long way in the last few years, but I'm fairly certain Mr Scissors cannot do any damage to any of the viewers. Unless of course, Christopher snips his finger off and causes a viewer to faint, which I am sure will not happen. Mr Scissors would then be confiscated and have to be put down, causing great sadness and pain to all who know him. I would miss him terribly and Christopher would almost certainly not post videos during a period of mourning. 😉
Thanks for posting, I always learn a lot.
Reminds me on fred harris from micro live. Take that as a compliment as he is a legend. Excellent stuff...
As a fan of Mr Scissors, I endorse this video.
Excellent! :)
ExplainingComputers Will you let Me Scissors have a website and show of his own? Explaining-Snippers.com?
I'm so glad that Mr. Scissors was here for this video, it'd be a disaster otherwise. Looking forward to more content with Mr. Scissors.
Mr Scissors . . . will be back! :)
Good job Christopher
Keep on going
A very good video as always
I just can’t wait to see the comparison between odroid x4u vs raspberry and thinker board
It posts a week on Sunday (10 Dec). Still in editing -- very surprising results . . .
ExplainingComputers
Thanks
After that i would like to see an overclock and maybe different setups for the cooling system. Like you did on raspberry. Thanks again.
Nice review. Thank you.
Very interesting videos, thanks!
I really like the modular emmc!
But now that's it, for another videöôh, and I hope to talk to you again... very soon..
I always like that part. :)
Excellent! :)
ExplainingComputers always enjoy the welcome.....dot.....com bit..... Exactly the same speed..... every .....time !
digitalmediafan Yes, and also the same shirt every time. I wonder if he wears it all week? Does Mr Shirt get washed Chris? 😉
It would be neat to get a demo of the server and cluster boards from them
Super streamlined fan and heatsink design.
Agreed, but having a removable mesh dust filter on the case he showed for it would be nice so you don't have to take apart the case to clean it.
the stock heatsink is a bit minimal, and on some heavy loads the SOC still throttles back some unless a larger fan and heatsink is used. Overall I've been really happy with the XU4 for about a year now as a secondary computer to look stuff up on or just to display chip specs/pinouts on. It even does ok with watching online vids.
that clear case has that knock-out line around where the heatsink is, probably for larger fans and heatsinks. Adding a filter there would not be a difficult mod as well. I never thought about doing that, great idea. B)
Dived in lately onto building a few retro arcade bartops with raspberry pi’s I was thinking in building a third with an XU4 as the extra power can pay N64 and Dreamcast games it seems but I see it was released in 2015 so I’d rather wait for the next upgrade board.
Altogether pleasant video!!
_Brahveaux!!_
I can't wait for the follow-up video on this SBC because it looked like it was running Ubuntu Mate at snail's pace. My first impression based entirely on this video is that given the peripherals, this is just more of a mini desktop. I think it would have a difficult time practically running the "Devestator Robot". When adding all the accessories, this SBC is far from economical.
Excellent video! I’m impressed with this product! And this video is the first time I’ve seen ubuntuMATE; it looks really nice. I wonder if their Bluetooth module works with it?
Yes more of these smaller the better thx Christopher
Strongest & most stable 8 cores ARM SBC I have used so far, compared to BPi M3, Friendly Arm's Nanopi M3
Very informative!
Interesting video!
When they bring out a version with built-in wifi and BT it might be worthwhile.
Thanks for sharing 😀👍
I always see people trying to compare these devices with PCs, forget it, don't cheap out on the PC. Where the XU4 will really shine is when used as a standalone, headless appliance as I'm sure Chris' performance testing will bear out. I use these as a voip PBX for example, one of these will easily support 50 concurrent calls with plenty left in the tank. Add an SSD and this thing really flies.
Good work 👍
Please remember to do power usage tests as well since to some users that is a good factor to know when doing some battery operated projects with these SoC's :)
I have just got one of these with retropie. It’s bloody awesome. I’m not sure where it stands against x86 in comparable terms but It seems more powerful than my OG Xbox which is pentium 3 @700MHz. Really impressed with this little thing.
The XU4 is indeed a great little board.
Ya know, I'm just looking for a really small (this sized) computer to dedicate to X-Plane. You'd think that'd be easy. Really like your videos!
Ubuntu MATE in the Odroid has some lags(even it's running under eMMC) but Kitkat seems to run smoothly. A simple desktop with Android might be possible on the device.
I can tell this is a very fresh video at 11:13 because that was google only a few days ago. Ever thought of doing a how to of how you do make videos?
it might benefit some people if you produced a video explaining how to make your own tablet computer using one of these singleboard computers.
Interesting idea for a project -- noted! :)
wouldn't it be better to have him build a space ship?
WOW
ABSOLUTELY SUPERB I LOVE IT.
KEITH KUHN
Thanks Keith. :)
KEITH KUHN 01714829625.01725526661.
hey christopher barnatt you have said about eMMC card in this video please make a video about that card too.
I like that board, like to have one with two 6core CPUs, that way it can use one chip, and use two when more demanding tasks, such as gaming, and a ram 240pin slot in the side, on the back I would definitely want it with M.2, one USB3.0 and 1 HDMI output, also like to see a solar panel that can attach to it on top of it.
Your single board computer explain is best ....
Thanks.
Deathsmiles,Cotton 2 with Mame/Hyperspin are ok?
If yes,with two sticks...great.
great video.
do you have any plan to review Rock64 sbc???
Looking forward for your comparison between the pi3 and the odroid as I would like to build an arcade system that can play Nintendo 64 games without much hassle.
Hi Mr. Scissors, how do you load the OS onto a eMMC and should we add a Swap partition? I've heard that the swap memory shortens the life of the eMMC. Can you please elaborate on that, or maybe make a new video on that? I'm huge fan! Keep those good videos coming!!!
Great board! Going to consider it for my project, but the lack of bluetooth is saddening
Can/did you do a video on Android running on a non-phone computer like this? Is it useful as a general computer? Does it run common Android apps well? Or is it still a tinkerer’s thing?
Thank you for sharing! Would this also work for a RetroPi 🕹setup?
Most interesting, thanks.
These things would be viable destop replacements for general browsing and office work IF they came with more RAM, that's what really lets them down. Why can't they put a laptop memory slot on them? Send them with like 1GB as standard, and when you put a dimm into it, it uses that instead and ignores the onboard ram.
We are now finally seeing SBCs with more RAM -- like the Rock64, and ROCK Pi 4B, both with up to 4GB.
The Odroid N2 looks interesting. I'm seriously considering getting one in April.
One thing that I really really wish all SBC manufacturers learned was to put all connectors on one side of the board. This would make life so much easier
I would like to use this as a nas. Or as a pi hope for my personal add blocking needs.
Hey Christopher Barnatt , I've a revez qdroid Android TV box , how would I go about getting a new version of Android installed on this box
I just did a quick search and found a UK site selling the board for £75. Quite a difference to the $59 mentioned in the review.
You can order direct from Hardkernel. Amazon UK have the passive heatsink version for £60.
That's a quick reply. I have no axe to grind, I was just interested to find out how much it might cost in the UK. On Amazon UK I am seeing prices around £110 (from UK suppliers), the lower cost ones appear to be shipped from the USA which I guess will attract VAT and other import related charges. Still it's a lot of bang for the buck.
good work
I am looking for a single board computer that is usable with FreeCAD. FreeCAD will start up on the Pi3, but that is about it. It would be a good bench mark on your next comparison video.
It seems like there's more and more SBC on the market these days, I wonder how long will the raspberry pi stay as the dominant player in the sbc market?
Farhan The Badass Scizor This has been around for 2 years.
The Pi is designed to be a very low cost, low power and silent computer - it doesn't even need a heat sink let alone a fan. The XU4 costs twice as much; aimed at a different market. The Pi is king because of price, outstanding software/OS support, and especially the massive number of HAT add-on boards. Can't see this changing any time soon, although I agree they should consider releasing a more powerful Pi as an additional SKU to compete with the likes of XU4...
There isn't really anything that can compete with the Pi zero range yet, I mean that thing was given away FREE with a magazine!
Question, have you ever looked at pine64 products? Reason is i just noticed something called the pinebook which I came across because another laptop claiming to be most affordable was a lapdock fro 120
I dont know if im alone in this but i would like to see temps under full load. Also if it could handle 1080p stream tasks for upload.
When i see a very nice single board computer like that i always get the urge to do a gentoo stage 1 install. Not sure why.
Curiously, the OS download page (as well as this video) are silent on whether each Linux build is 64 bit, or 32. Of course, on small-memory SBCs usually 32 bit is usually a better choice, but the exist some software that is only available for 64. Would I need to do a custom OS build myself?.
Sir, Can you make a D. I. Y. Laptop from a Scratch for that Odroid-XU4 Single Board Computer?
You could, bur probably not cost effectively. You may find this SBC-based laptop interesting: www.pine64.org/?page_id=3707
Can we do the same in a laptop instead of a desktop display? Anything we need to change for the booting to start?
Seeing a "real cooling system" on this board has me really excited is there a chance you can do a comparison with latte panda and a few others and let us know what the most usable desk top/laptop substitute would be thank you for the awesome work
Thanks for this. I did one comparison video here: czcams.com/video/8qBxi6Q4XlY/video.html But not yet against a LattePanda!
what r the CPU and GPU benchmark? and is it easy to get android app store working on it?
Probably using 6 because of its exynos nature. On Cellphones it uses the four lower speed cores until they get strained, or need more power or some anomalous protocol tells it; Then it switches to the faster 4. Be interested to see if in this board all 8 are available at all times or if the four by 2 architecture is hard wired
I have a very important question : for gaming wise would it be better to get more cores less speed or fewer cores but more speed and also tinker board or this one for gaming
Tinker Board for gaming, certainly. I'll be uploading my benchmark video between the two and a Pi a week on Sunday.
In the future will you be doing a video on the UP AI Edge?
I may -- if they send me one! :)
You made no comment regarding wifi. Is it just a case of inserting the dongle? Does the os have drivers for it? I ask because I have a panda usb adapter and wondered if I would need to obtain drivers. Thank you.
Hi, Thank you so much for these useful information and for the simplicity.
Just one quick question please. Is it possible to establish a connection between several ODROID-XU4 Octa-Core building then a small cluster (say for 80 cores) ?
Many thanks again
Best,
It is indeed possible to build an XU4 cluster -- and Hardkernel even sell hardware to facilitate this: www.hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php?g_code=G150152508314
I see for the advanced setup described in the link that there are in total 128 processors can work in parallel. I would like to ask about the max processors which can be provided and price please.
I noticed Mr Scissors was struggling to cut today. Is he okay? Has he stopped eating? Will somebody think of the scissorlets!
:)
Christopher! what happened to your review of the nano-pc t4? I bought one, and it's hotter than hell. Fast ARM-64 processors need better cooling! Did you bother to install an NVME disk on the nano-pc t4? Where do you format to use the NVME storage?
Hi Karen, I've not got an Nano-PC T4 (yet). Though I have just received a RockPro64, which is based on the same SoC, and will be featured here on 12 August. :)
Do youhave slow internet or was it slow because it just booted?
So... what's the most powerful soc that you know of, i'm a bit curious and I thought you might know the community/market better than i do. Though this is still a great video, keep it up (as you can see i have a difficult time asking a question and also complimenting at the same time)
Most powerful are x86 boards like the LattePanda Alpha, UDOO Bolt (still almost an SBC), and boards like the Odyssey X86J4105. For ARM and AI, go for the higher-end Jetson boards from NVIDIA. It all depends what you want to pay. More on the x86 boards in this video: czcams.com/video/xqIHsJLDdN4/video.html
Hey Chris, have you been given any info or hardware on the ODROID-H1 or ODROID-H2?
I have a video dedicated to the HC1 and HC2 here: czcams.com/video/AtHzhtkxIc8/video.html :)
The world's favourite website, hey ?
;)