In fact most often the PSUs designed for LED lighting are even cheaper and sometimes even more efficient, however they’re less well regulated. But here given that 12V is only used to feed DC-DC converters all over the place, we probably don’t care about that. I’ve bought some small ones for other projects (powering my home lab) but have not not tried feeding the O6 with it yet.
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They should work fine. And if they can output egnuth power you can hook them up to a GPU 6 or 8 pin header to power them as well
Jeff geerling made a great point, If they’re gonna create an ARM desktop motherboard why not full send it?
I believe radxa should have spent more time developing this board adding more QoL features to it that make it in line with a regular x86_64 itx desktop motherboard.
Though to be fair there is like… Almost no consumer grade ARM hardware that comes close to this, It’s either SBC or high end stuff.
Perhaps radxa could create a newer revision of this board?
Perhaps with sata ports?
Wake On Lan?
Proper power stuff?
And ideally some case fan headers…
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Agree this is really the hybrid of a devkit and a consumer level device.The next iteration has a lot to fix but would make it even more compelling than it already is.
Since they also made a Rock5ITX-Plus I wouldn’t be surprised if things around software get better they consider making an Orion-O6-Plus
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Ideally i would prefer if they didn’t rush to make new hardware and instead focus on making this board work properly first.
Most SBC vendors tend to design and sell hardware, Use basic vendor provided software and call it quits.
I’m rooting for a fully mainlined board that can be considered real ARM desktop class hardware, No need for special custom kernels to get features working just like a regular desktop.
I’m really hoping radxa goes above and beyond with this board and probably start leading in this space since as i said… Sadly nobody seems to care about mainline…
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It’s not nobody. https://libre.computer/ is an example that goes the extra mile beforehand but that upfront investment is basically the opposite of that from the innovator board vendors that enable us to have the hardware at none DevKit Business prices.
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I’d really like to see a Plus revision with this hardware issues fixed but not before we get at least 90% of software related stuff working under the mainline kernel
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