Reddit reviews ODROID-XU4 Single Board Computer with Quad Core 2GHz A15, 2GB RAM, USB 3.0, Gigabit

> Four cores at one GHz is now low power?

yes. Welcome to moore's law. 8 cores at 2 Ghz is now High Power in the mobile ARM world.

>The fact of the matter is if it shipped with 4gb of ram then it could run Gitlab swimmingly. Its "power" is not the issue at all.

Have you looked at RAM prices lately? including 4 gb would increase the price of the Pi by a drastic amount.

>But you get to the point where you're arguing that "high powered stuff" needs to be run on high grade x86 stuff, but small hardware projects can be easily done on a esp chip.... What do you want an rpi for then anymore? You've argued it out a use case. Why do that? There's plenty of stuff which can run on a 1ghz multi core machine. It's just a lot of it wants more ram nowadays.

Then buy yourself a nice Odroid XU4. At least you'll have 2 GB of RAM and plenty of processing power to boot.

> Something like this?

Yes, but not at those prices. I would suggest the following from Ameridroid:

• Odroid XU4
  
• Case for Odroid XU4
  
• PSU for Odroid XU4
  
• eMMC Linux module for Odroid XU4 - option, you could just use an SD card
  
• eMMC adapter - optional
  
  Edit - I'm not affiliated with Ameridroid. I've never bought anything from them - I got my Odroids directly from Hardkernel (in S. Korea)

Have you come across the Odroid xu4? link quad core 2GHz, 2GB ram, USB 3.0, and Gigabit Ethernet

I actually just learned about the Odroid, a faster alternative to Raspberry Pi that proports to be 10x faster. Not sure how well supported it is but I will research it.

https://www.amazon.com/ODROID-XU4-Single-Board-Computer-Gigabit/dp/B0163GEA64/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1550017744&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=odroid&dpPl=1&dpID=51GIGaNDk1L&ref=plSrch

Something like this?

I have not purchased any hardware yet so I can certainly go this route over a Rasberry Pi.

I am new to the HA side of the automation stuff but am pretty tech savvy once I dive in. I have over 20 years in the electrical field, I'm doing a pretty major renovation on our house right now, doing pretty much a complete rewire of all electric and low voltage. Going with HA and Z-wave throughout. Switches, door/motion/water sensors, door locks, garage door, remote water main shutoff.....the list keeps growing....;-)

sweet dude you convinced me. thanks so much for your info, just want to get everything straight before i blow a bunch more money.

ok i think this is the right video board, is it?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01N4FL014/ref=ox_sc_act_image_4?smid=A1D3XK588INFI6&psc=1

also an sd card and ac adapter for the odroid.

was also planning on getting new buttons and joysticks and using 2 usb controllers. is this the preferred method or using that IDE wire harness better way to go?

also, this odroid good or is there a better one?

https://www.amazon.com/ODROID-XU4-Single-Board-Computer-Gigabit/dp/B0163GEA64/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1541774675&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=odroid+xu4&dpPl=1&dpID=51GIGaNDk1L&ref=plSrch

Thinking of maybe something more like this, so that I can get USB 3.0 speeds. https://www.amazon.com/ODROID-XU4-Single-Board-Computer-Gigabit/dp/B0163GEA64/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1543386879&sr=1-1&keywords=GA-SBCAP3350

ODROID-XU4 Amazon page say it ships to France.