Best Single Board Computer You Never Heard Of

Best Single Board Computer You Never Heard Of
Mixtile Blade 3 is a stackable high-performance single board computer based on Rockchip RK3588. Equipped with Octa-core 64-bit processor, maximum of 32GB RAM and 256GB eMMC storage, multiple peripheral interfaces including 4-lane PCIe Gen3, SATA 3.0, MIPI CSI and dual 2.5Gb Ethernet, it is ideal for ARM servers, mini PC, compact computing clusters and edge computing.
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[@tonywise198]

More of this type of content would be appreciated, please, Brian. I have to agree with others that it seems well overpricd. The various Beelink minis seem better value.

[@Britec09]

very pricey

[@petar0402]

Hate that it has 2 HDMIs and not DPs instead. HDMI is terrible, same goes for HDMI forum. DP is better in every way and it's royalty free.

[@ehsnils]

The dual network ports makes it interesting to build a firewall on, but it depends on the CPU power what performance you'll get.

[@johngoard8272]

Well Brian mate it is just amazing how much they can fit into such a small package but frankly I am not a fan of mini PC's, plus most of them seem to me to be really "well priced".

[@welshtony1]

Nice board but looking at the price its designed specifically to work as a cluster not to be used on its own.

[@Britec09]

Yeah, hence the connections

[@espertempo]

At this price they’ll never hear of me either.

[@quademasters249]

My take as well. These kinds of boards have a pretty distinct upper price limit before it's better to just use x86.

[@peterschmidt9942]

Seems a bit pricey for an ARM based chip when you can pick up new mini PCs for around the same (or less) dollars. Although I do like their cluster cases (but again, a little pricey)

[@StupidusMaximusTheFirst]

I think it's reasonably priced compared to what this board gives you. It might seem kinda pricey but that's more value for money than a RPi or maybe even a mini PC.

[@peterschmidt9942]

@@StupidusMaximusTheFirst Yes, probably better value than RPi, but not as much as some mini PCs with intels in them

[@joelee24]

Yes this is more like it, I don't like Pi to use the Tiny HDMI and lacks of internal storage, I hope to see more like this one in the market.

[@fly4fun24]

at 500$ plus NUME drive. $600.00 it is Pricey... Owesome Video

[@ronaldglider]

Can you show what can be done with the HDMI input?

[@shivachaturvedhi8840]

please show how nginx can be installed in this without apache serer and give a demo if it can be used as a nginx service provider also price details or link in amazon or similar website

[@SurvivenTerry]

What an amazing build. Its a perfect little Apocalypse PC just slap a faraday box on it and your laughing. 🍻

[@udirt]

You might want something with a SFP port for that ;-)

[@gigahzmjb2822]

I have a Rock pi 5 b and an Orange pi 5+, both are a better value (price) and the Orange Pi 5+ has more IO.

[@gabrieltunia2073]

To expensive. If this would cost below 200 dolars it might have sense.

[@catafest]

I like to have 32 Gb RAM, but the price is $439.00 for US ... expensive, maybe when will have a $250 price will be more good for me.

[@Britec09]

Yeah, its pretty pricey

[@catafest]

@@Britec09 can you tell me if you test ARM device with Fedora Linux or another Linux distro and how good is arm on linux ... ?

[@brucelytle1144]

​@@catafestare you asking if Linux runs on arms? Linux variants are just about all that does run on arm cores. I've been using Linux since 92 or 93 on i86's and preferred processor now is arm.

[@noth606]

"in situ" doesn't mean what you think it does Britec09.

[@boydpukalo8980]

You spent about 0% on software, and we all know these ARM SBC's with their device trees and poorly supported GPU's are pump and dump products from the hardware manufacturers which release a new SBC with unfinished alpha software support and never get to a production ready OS before the new shiny SBC is dumped onto the market. For $400 - no thanks but looks cool.

[@fido139]

Alum-mini-yum. LOL!

[@yllib2012]

This little board is WAY overpriced for what it is.

[@billkillernic]

Yea i bet the price is the reason nobody cares for it lol

[@mike97525]

overpriced 🙄🙄

[@moukafaslouka4796]

Buy a nice mini PC and forget about this crap!

[@josephcooter5763]

Between $230 to $430. I am in the market for a desktop but I don't want to pay that much for a single board. For about $100 I can get a raspberry pi.

[@Devvult]

Yeah imo that is not worth it. It's too expensive. Second hand desktop with a graphic cards would be the better option at that price point.

[@SomeRandomGuy407]

agree too pricy, if they came down to $150 or even $200 it would be worth it.

[@bruceyoung1343]

I would love when the day comes to have a computer that small. Tired now of the big cases. But at the $$ asking for 32gb version, I think I wait few more years to spread the love

[@newmonengineering]

For 200 to 400 is a mini pc. For my main computer I paid 3k for. I guess it depends on what you use the computer for as far as budget goes. For me, I want something that can program with 100 tabs open and do some game development on. A mini pc simply will not do this properly. But to simply browse the web it can work just fine. For a single board computer again there are use cases, a raspberry pi can work in some places but if you want more power for AI on some robot you might want more power. So I guess it's all relative to the goal of the use case to be honest

[@paulgupta2454]

I'd literally only use it as a DIY router.

[@paulwarner5395]

Nice little machine. I think I'd put the little rubber feet on the case along side the screws for easy access to get back in side.

[@dalriada842]

I was about to type the same thing. The case would be better if the indentations were not in the same place as the screws. Potentially, the rubber feet might 'wander' if not placed in them. I don't get why such a company would seek to cover the screws anyway. They must think they are competing for the same customer base as Apple!

[@codemonkey6173]

The Pine RockPro64 left me with a bad impression of rockchip regarding Linux support. Is it better now?

[@CedroCron]

If it would run PfSense it would make an awesome router

[@johnpinion8033]

Never heard of it, and never want to hear of it at that price! LOL Seriously, I trash-picked a Tronsmart Orion R28 (android TV box) which uses the similar Rockchip RK3288 - which I assume is the quad-core version of the 3588, and to be fair, it's a great processor in it's price-range. Certainly a budget processor. One of the big problems is that linux support (and other operating systems) is much more limited than it would be with a x86 processor like a cheap Celeron. But I did manage to get Ubuntu installed, and also I think armbian. I'm sure the octa-core is better. And it's a cool little package, with nice accouterments. But should be WAY cheaper.

[@danielkowalski7527]

such gr8 radiator got rmoved -,- what a downgrade ^^

[@luigiprovencher]

I didn't know that Michael Cain was into computers.

[@Yandarval]

He sounds nothing like Michael Caine.

[@luigiprovencher]

@@Yandarval Wrong but you're entitled to your opinion.

[@Yandarval]

@@luigiprovencher As are you. Its the joy of the Internet.

[@luigiprovencher]

@@Yandarval Yeah I know thanks. Mine wasn't an opinion though. It was a statement.

[@Rood67]

It’s not just the board that’s overpriced; up to $2K for a box to cluster them in; hundreds for an add-on board. They are unknown and unproven, and as Brian said, little content on these (because no one can afford them to make content). A little late to the game to be coming in at this price point and expecting to get wide acceptance from scrutinizing buyers that know their money can be better spent elsewhere.

[@sbme1147]

Had to go from Smart TV to laptop to comment. Wow your right. Does look really nice, but damn. So 4 units all the same. At least they use two 2.5 GbE ports. Seriously, it does sound like a very nice board and they have like 30 engineers in Palo Alto so it seems they really know what they are doing. But living in CA, that's actually where the $200 extra price on the 32GB RAM and 256 GB storage comes from . At least until they can hit economies of scale. Oops, I did a little digging. I'll leave what I said, even though I was wrong, everyone is at least 2-5 times a week on something like this on the internet at least :) About Us: We have designed, mass-produced and shipped more than one million PCBAs. It looks like parent company is actually from China. So Edit Above, don't know exactly where they count their engineers, probably both US and China. If made in China then it's truly very, very expensive. I thought maybe they tried to do their own and that's why it was so expensive ( obviously still sourced stuff from their..).

[@BorisZX6R]

Way overpriced. You can buy a proper mini pc with the n100 cpu for less. Like the Chuwi larkbox x mini pc for $150

[@nick92065]

I can buy a Beelink mini pc for the same amount of money that is much better than this.

[@saultube44]

Old eMMC Storage interface on a $439 computer? For that price I expect the at least UFS 2.1(latest is 4), even UFS 1, which is 2x faster than eMMC 5.1(final). Son I'm Disappoint

[@charis.a]

Can we install Windows 11 on this?

[@tetnia]

It will be extremely interesting to see the creation of a cluster and the potential of computing power along with the cost

[@大支爺]

They are stucked to sell out those outdated Rockchip soc, go get AMD 8940HS is better choice.

[@Erick_BMG]

and bob's your uncle...

[@HiltonBenchley]

How much? Blee*ing Nora, you think I'm made of money?

[@DeadMouseis]

can some one make a vid with a sbc that runs Any windows please

[@daveginboav]

Yay Brian, very good a new video without a single mention of Windows! You were right I hadn't heard of it. Sure, it would be really good to see how to overwrite Ubuntu with another LInux like Mint.

[@Britec09]

I will look into it and see if its possible

[@Iamnotheretocompete]

TOPS?

[@JP-re3bc]

No, thanks.

[@DigitalDiabloUK]

Some odd design decisions here. A button on a somewhat proprietary pcie via sata to nvme, rather than using a header. A fan header for a fan not on the CPU side. Dual 2.5 gb NIC great, but if it's doing HPC stuff, then why 2 HDMI ports? And can those CPUs even saturate a PCI Express interconnect? This is obviously to solve a specific problem, I just don't know what 😂

[@jonathanng2390]

Tiny computer, big price. I’ll pass for now. Get it down to $120 for 8GB memory and we’re talking.

[@LimbaZero]

Thinking how much hotter it will run in that case. It seems it was only one sheet of metal that then connect to case where the screw was. So that base maybe for normal desktop use without hi loads when that bare pcb+heatsink was meant to be almost constant 100% load 24/7. Basically it looked module you put on modular case that had back plane + fans.

[@giornikitop5373]

apart from being expensive, the usuall problem with all these boards is software support. is this there yet?

[@tomlake2732]

I don't like hiding the screws under the rubber feet. You'd need a new set of feet every time you open it up.

[@asknight]

Is the SATA port blocked by the NVME adapter board?

[@lse123polis]

The processor is Arm, in the describing Mini-PC? Intel N95 or N100 processors is Arm or amd64...?

[@frustratedalien666]

This is arm. It isn't N95 or N100

[@Romgenas]

NAS?

[@US_Joe]

As always 👍👍👍

[@Britec09]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@sirdee9607]