I think the most expensive box I've seen so far was around $75-80 for RK3566 and 8/128GB config.

There are also much beefier boxes that run stock AOSP(not Android TV), which might be even better for the job. Also in plans is an external SMA connector for Wifi antenna, and maybe playing around with a clock display to show something useful (there's a driver for it, so you don't have to mess with GPIO on low level). Also added a little pigtail for UART port which is easy to attach/detach once the ugly top sticker was removed. Already modded stock cooling with 'fancy' chinese graphite tape, better heatsink, and a slim 40mm fan.

Amlogic S905x3 4GB DDR3 64GB storage and an SD card slot. Currently running headless ubuntu, but I finally found a distro with GPU acceleration which should work. I thing it sells for around $40-45 these days, but I got mine almost for free. I'm actually in the process of making something similar, but since Pi's are about as hard to find as pink unicorn's ass, I've decided to go with a decent TV box (H96 Max X3). Between naked Pi4 and Pi400 I'd go straight for Pi400, cause for some reasons it's much cheaper in most regions than a stock Pi4 and gives you many bonuses as a side effect. There are drivers for GPU and video decoding, there's quite a bit of performance under the hood, and distros are relatively stable.

Served me well for a few years, until I upgraded to Pi3. Browsing/email etc was fine, but YT or streaming was pain in the ass due to lack of opensource Mali graphics driver(even 480p was chugging badly), but had an advantage of built-in SATAII port (which was non-existent in competition). But as a secondary low-power PC (or a nettop) - it's perfectly fine.īack in a day I ran Cubietruck SBC as a secondary PC. By itself Pi4 is quite beefy, but if you are used to a full-fledged PC experience, it'll be a hard transition. RAPOO E9270P Black 5GHz wireless / HP backlit Logitech MX Anywhere 2 Laser wireless / Logitech M330 wireless Seasonic Focus Plus Gold 750W / Powerbrick Panasonic SA-PMX94 / Realtek onboard + B&O speaker system / Harman Kardon Go + Play / Logitech G533 MSI RTX 2070 Super Gaming X Trio / Intel HD620 Noctua NH-U12A 2 fans + Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Extreme + 5 case fans / Fanģ2GB DDR5 Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB 6000MHz C元6 / 8GB DDR4 HyperX CL13 Gigabyte Z690 Aorus Master / HP 83A3 (U3E1)

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