magic_sam

My strongest ARM-based BOINC crunchers are two Hardkernel Odroid-N2+ boards, one running Android 9 PIE, the other Armbian. While the Rockchip RK3399 has two ARM Cortex-A72's and four ARM Cortex-A53's, the Amlogic S922X of the Odroid-N2+ has four ARM Cortex-A73's (@2.4 GHz) and two ARM Cortex-A53's (@2.0 GHz). So more, faster, and better high-performance cores and less, but faster, efficiency cores. Both N2+ boards have a 80mm fan under the big standard heatsink and this helps to maintain a CPU temperature below 40 degrees centigrade. 

Without fan they run quite a bit hotter. Fan screws double as stand-offs.

Dear all,
 
First post here
 
I just wanted to thank you for the up-to-date image you made for the pcDuino4 Nano (a.k.a the NanoPI M1):
 
https://armbian.hosthatch.com/archive/nanopim1/archive/
 
It's much better than the stock image provided my LinkSprite, based upon Debian 8 "Jessie":
 
https://www.linksprite.com/pcduino4-nano/
 
I only had one issue so far with your image, certainly related to the default overclocking at 1368 MHz, which didn't play well with the CPU intensive, NEON optimized tasks I threw at it (BOINC)
 
I lowered the frequency to 1296 MHz and it's been running stable for a couple of hours now
 
So thanks again and keep up the good work !
 
Best regards,
 
Magic Sam from the Open Pandora / Dragonbox Pyra community
 
https://www.openpandora.org/
https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyra/

Great choice. I had one myself but somehow managed to kill it
Even made a custom fan hat for it. If you are interested reading my jabbering about this board take a look here: https://zuckerbude.org/nanopi-r4s-router-overkill/
 
Another board with RK3399 that is fairly cheap are for example the quite recently released OrangePi 4 LTS (where LTS stands for 'we had to change the network chip due to shortage and simply call it LTS for no reason like we always do').

I think the best possible SoC that is also well supported is any device featuring RK3399. Yes there are successors now, the RK35xx series but it will take years go get to the same mature level as the RK3399 is now.

Dear all,
 
First post here
 
I just wanted to thank you for the up-to-date image you made for the pcDuino4 Nano (a.k.a the NanoPI M1):
 
https://armbian.hosthatch.com/archive/nanopim1/archive/
 
It's much better than the stock image provided my LinkSprite, based upon Debian 8 "Jessie":
 
https://www.linksprite.com/pcduino4-nano/
 
I only had one issue so far with your image, certainly related to the default overclocking at 1368 MHz, which didn't play well with the CPU intensive, NEON optimized tasks I threw at it (BOINC)
 
I lowered the frequency to 1296 MHz and it's been running stable for a couple of hours now
 
So thanks again and keep up the good work !
 
Best regards,
 
Magic Sam from the Open Pandora / Dragonbox Pyra community
 
https://www.openpandora.org/
https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyra/