Odyssey X86 Windows & Linux SBC

[Music] welcome to another video from explaining computers comm this time we're going to take a look at this The Odyssey x86 j4 105 single board computer which has been supplied for view of my friends at seed studio as the name implies this is an x86 based SBC that can run Windows and x86 based Linux distributions and it's also got amazing connectivity so let's go and take a closer look right here we have the Odyssey x86 j4 105 in it's a rather nice box I do like the packaging here matte laminate on a very nice box all the specs there it's always good to see a board which is nicely presented by its manufacturer and before we open this thing up it's worth pointing out there was three different versions of the Odyssey x86 j4 one and five firstly there was the x86 j4 105 800 which has 8 gigabytes of RAM and no onboard storage secondly there's the x86 j4 105 864 which has 8 gigabytes of RAM and 64 gigabytes of onboard flash storage and on this board Windows 10 enterprises pre-installed but it's not activated finally the x86 j4 105 864 with Windows 10 Enterprise activated which as you would imagine as 8 gigabytes of RAM and 64 gigabytes of onboard flash storage containing an activated version of Windows 10 enterprise and I believe this is the version of the board were looking at here you do of course I'm sure also want to know the prices and here they are with the board without emmc costing one hundred eighty eight dollars and the board with emmc but without windows 10 activated costing $218 and the board with MMC and Windows 10 Enterprise activated costing two hundred and fifty eight dollars so with all of this clear let's now open up the box which i think is nice and straightforward yes it just slides like that to take the outer thing away like that and put it over there all which lovely install but I do like the attention to detail on the box and aha we've got Auto manual here we are which is I'm sure we'll look at some point there it is this is the board 110 millimeters square I think the beautiful looking thing well obviously look at that in more detail in a second quite heavy a big heat sink on the base of the board what else is in the box though we better look at all the other bits first there well sin Hill lots of things this much lift out I presume it does all come on come on it's like opening up her very complicated something there we are what's in here there's a bag rustling things lots of things in here I think it's great you get everything you need in one go there's nothing you have to buy to use this board this is let's have a look this is a cable as you can see this is got as exciting doesn't it what's in here oh this is a SATA cable which of course gives you a clue to some of the connectivity on the board there's a real time clock battery and that's an antenna Wi-Fi or Bluetooth another antenna here I think also for Wi-Fi or Bluetooth so we've got there is cables we can use with the board this I'm pretty certain therefore is the mains adapter that comes with a universal adapter I think we open this up as well get in there no need for mister scissors or Stanley the knife today there we are universal adapter and I imagine therefore here we've got so these must be two things to plug onto their tutor listen to the appropriate sir sockets there they are we've got UK and US and all the stuff I need this particular one which will go onto here on short to make it into a a UK ER actual adapter anyway there's all the different bits we get in the box but of course we really want to see is the board itself so let's bring that back up interview there's there there's the actual computer and let's take a closer look at it and one of the first things you may notice is it's actually labeled re computer alpha which apparently all of the first batch of the Odyssey x86 boards are labeled that the rest will be labeled Odyssey x86 j4 105 so let's turn to the specs of the board and to do that really we should turn it over because the processor is underneath beneath this rather large heatsink and fan and it's worth pointing out that if you get the board without emmc flash storage you don't get the fan well she's got the world William as he first Lord you get the fan and the heat sink and a beneath the heatsink and I'm not going to take it all off to show you but beneath here is the processor and the processor is an intel celeron j4 105 which is a quad core processor with a 1.5 gigahertz base frequency which bursts up to a 2.5 and it's also got Intel UHD 600 onboard graphics and my guess is that the RAM is also sitting under this a heatsink somewhere and the rammers have said before we take gigabytes it's 8 gigabytes of LP ddr4 Ram we turn the border back over the other way around this will come back to the top of it we can see various features here for start here is the emmc flash storage which is a 64 gigabyte SanDisk chip MMC version 5.1 next of his chip we found the first of two m dot two slots on the board we got one here one over there and this first n dot to connect it is a be keyed so it can take a SATA SSD you can see will fit in there or it can take a cellular module as err as you can see also written on the board I said bit more about the cellular module in a second and then the second end up to connector is a here this is M key this can take an nvme SSD and it's a PCIe x 4 so it'll be nice and fast also on the top of the board we've got the wireless module which you can see here this gives us a 802 1-1 ABG and an AC Wi-Fi and the Bluetooth 5.0 and as you can see it's also got the antenna connectors to connect on those antennas we saw earlier find them on top of the board I'll point out the connector here which is for the the real-time clock battery turning to the front edge we first find a power switch although if you want to add your own power switch there's a header for that just behind the switch and then next to that we've got a barrel jack for power for taking 12 volts from the supplied mains adapter next to that we've got to count them two gigabit ethernet port I'm sure they forget some of you very excited indeed and these have got Intel y21 180 PCIe controllers next to that we've got a vertically mounted full size HDMI socket which offers a 4k output at up to 60 frames a second and then finally on this edge we've got to type a USB 2.0 port rotating around we find a standard SATA connector vyses at us 3 and next to this we've got three ports which give a SATA power so this board is well equipped to the SATA hard drive or the SATA SSD spinning 90 again to the third edge we find a 3.5 millimeter audio jack which offers Asus Theriault had found output and the microphone input and then we've got a USB 3.1 type-c connector which also offers DisplayPort 1.2 connectivity which supports 4k output at up to 60 frames a second and if you want you could also power the board using this a USBC connector next to that was our got a type-a USB 3.1 connector and then next to that we've got a a stack of slots this is I think rather interesting because on the top here we've got a micro SD card slot but beneath it we've got a SIM card connector for cellular connectivity however do note this only works if you have an MDOT to 4G cellular module fitted in the BT 10.2 slot finally the fourth out of the board is very much for makers wear that lots of connectivity as you can see specifically we've got this 28 pin connector which is connected to an on-board Arduino ATS AMD to one g18 microcontroller and then along from this we've got a 40 pin and Raspberry Pi compatible GPIO header so if you want to do IOT robotics or similar project with this board it's very well equipped indeed and so there we have it the Odyssey x86 j4 105 a very interesting new single board computer and if you're wondering about a case seed studio have a fantastic enclosure about to hit the market for $14.90 a here on their website suddenly the state of the world right now has prevented me from getting hold of a case to show you in the flesh and the plastic as it were in this video but they are sending me a case and how they're for befitting the board in that case in the enclosure where they were project with this board in the future video right I've now got the board connected up as you can see I've connected mouse and keyboard by USB to HDMI for our video output and I thought I'd use one of Thea Ethernet connectors for getting online it seems unfair not to do that and of course the power is in that and all have also fitted the real time clock battery into the connector on the top of the board and as you can probably see I've also fitted summer standoffs I had these lining around these are 20 mil m3 standoffs which work very well just to erase this border off via off the surface here just to stop it getting damaged as we're we boot it up so let's press the switch and here we are booting up seed studio the IOT hardware enabler and going into Windows now this is not my first boot it's my second boot I've just got it and changed the screen scaling a bit so we can see things better on video but other than that this is exactly what you get if you've got a Windows 10 and 2 price pre-installed on the emmc on the board and it seems to be going to windows pretty quickly welcome it says I don't like the blurry effect having windows now anyway there we all that was a prettier wrap into boot into Windows from the on border EMC flash storage and just have a look at how much storage we've got left on that stories that's open it up and go to this PC and you'll see about half of it is used 30 1.25 gigabyte 3 out of 57 so just under half is use with the install of Windows to the enterprise if you choose to keep that look as many people I guess will install all the things on this ball that's just look at the menu just show it it's nice and responsive this is a very very responsive for those two Windows 10 this board is perfectly powerful enough to do all kinds of things many people want to do with a computer isn't it let's just launch the browser I'm going to go to Microsoft edge it's a bit bad isn't it works with the world's favorite websites as you can see we're have to add this board my list of soon the more computers won't maple go in somewhere down here if I can learn how to use a web browser and I'm sure somebody will ask and we play youtube videos of course it can play YouTube videos it's a powerful x86 board but we will just stir try it out nonetheless I would point out that right now my internet speed is horrible because uh so many people are working from home so this is not the board's 42 taking so long to buffer butter just because so many people use the internet let me find a stout for nerds where I'm like I'll get there in a second there we are stats for nerds coming up down there and it has dropped a couple of frames probably due to the buffering but you know this does not look like a board having any problem whatsoever playing playing back at HD YouTube this looks perfectly good to me so what that's what I would expect the board is working it very nicely I think I'll now move on and we'll do some more detail tests greetings Here I am back again and as you might have noticed down here Windows does want activating on this board this is clearly the version of the ball that comes without windows 10 Enterprise activated but this won't stop us running some tests and if I do keep Windows 10 on this board on the emmc I'm sure I'll use Windows 10 home Rosman vigor and enterprise license anyway let's run some tests so I've installed here a crystal disk mark and first of all I thought we'd test the speed of the internal flash storage which is a Steve drive here so let's run the tests and there they are they finished and he's a pretty respectable for internal emmc water 277 megabytes a second read and a 142 writers as the headlines here clearly not the speed of a standard SSD but not bad for internal emmc i've also when you weren't looking installed this a WD black nvme SSD onto the board so we can test the speed of that as well as to see how fast the interface is here so we'll pick them all up here which is a lot d drive the new drive is a USB Drive plugged into this machine so let's test the speed of the nvme SSD plugged into this board and there we are again we've got our results and focusing once again on just a headline maximum read and write speeds we can see these figures are impressive certainly much faster you get from a satyr drive nine 46 megabytes a second read and 884 write this said when I tested the same drive on an i7 PC awhile back I got a speeds of a three four four seven and two five three eight so clearly the interface here is not allowing the drive to reach its maximum potential but still these are good results that's also a run at Pathmark which I've got running down here and you can see pass block is a running along and it's also reporting our CPU temperature is currently about what just jumped there a 46 degrees in thing sucks current CPU temperature is 47 now and they suppose it's doing a 3d animation there and I should just point out the fan in this board is pretty quiet and it's if one of these fans that doesn't speed up and slow down it either on or it's off right now it's on you might just be able to hear it in the background possibly not but when the front is on you you can't hear very much when it runs off it obviously the whole board is front anyway let's run through there the pass mark tests will kick them off over here under press run there we are we've got all the tests and this will take a while and I should point out that the disk mark part of this test will be based on the internal emmc flash storage and here we are starting the 3d graphics tests we're getting a all about 20 something twenty one twenty two twenty second down to eighteen towards Lisa aeroplanes flying around but the water looks pretty with the sunlight reflected it doesn't it and now we're spinning around these are floating islands which are clearly going to really stress a board like this it's not designed to do this type of graphics but it's it's managing about four frames a second we've got to give it it to do it's making a pretty pictures still and now we've got to the famed floating jellyfish in space test which is a it's going along isn't it wall it's a big planet now I wonder where it is I wonder if there's people on that plant who watch it videos on YouTube oh and uh finally we're off into the the space battle it's good to see this board will run all the pass mark test so it's must have a reasonably modern and appropriate graphics for that this is pretty not a lot massively impressive result but I'm sure this board would be great for retro gaming and there we are it's finished we've got our passport result I don't think I'm a bit my baseline at this stage though online we'll just say okay to that and if we just a few our results I can never remember where you get hold of these there they are there's the results in the whole lot and you can see this computer getting a score over 1361 for its overall pass marks score and that is a little bit faster than a lot a panda dealt with a lot faster lot 800 Delta which is a similarly priced x86-based Singapore computer we're on a weather 1031 and just to give you an idea it's not as fast as you would expect it to be as a rising 3 to 200g PC with a similar amount of RAM and I'll just flick down the other benchmarks here you can see them if you wish to stop the video and have a look at those you can see there they are but overall I'm pretty impressed with how this machine has ER performed and a follow thing I want to say is that during this test a fan has been coming on and I've now decided that maybe the fan does run at a multiple speeds it seems to have a higher speed and the lower speed as well as being turned off right here I'm back again and I press the Delete key on boot to enter the BIOS and on the first screen we see all the basic information about the board including the fact that memory runs at 233 megahertz and if I move across to the next tab you'll see there's a lots and lots of options here there's even a TPM module on this board lots of things we can change and configure which is not unusual on a general computer with honor SBC it's great to have all these options available and in fact there's even this option here for configuring the GPIO pins the Raspberry Pi compatible pinned on this board I've not seen that before in a general BIOS I've also got chipset options we can for example change the onboard graphics aperture up to a half a gigabyte if we wish security options boot options as you would expect and talking about options as you can notice there I've actually installed a Linux on this machine I've actually installed Linux Mint on the nvme SSD and I've left the board to boot from Windows err by default but if we just override that now and launch Linux Mint there we are afoot you might want to see Linux running on this machine it Ferg's meant 19.2 because I had that ISO available but it shows us the board running Linux Mint perfectly well and I would point out I've taken out the Ethernet lead and we're using a Wi-Fi here to go online because I wanted to check that the Wi-Fi drivers would work with this board in Linux Mint and they do as you can see down here Wi-Fi is working fine as is a Bluetooth as well that that's called and Linux is working very nicely on this board just as a as Windows did and as a test I've installed a kdenlive I thought can we video edit on this PC in the answer is yes we can let's just open up and edit this is the edit from my PI for week video from a few videos back we're hoping there didn't kdenlive on the Raspberry Pi but we can look at it here as well on this Odyssey x86 board and it plays it perfectly well it's very very fluid we can go back and forces will be no problems at all editing on this board and once I got edited this particular video on the Odyssey x86 j4 105 it's certainly something I done as you probably gathered I'm very impressed with the Odyssey x86 j4 105 in particular I think that seed studio have managed to bring in the board at a reasonable price point for for what you get and in this context it was reflecting on the fact that any manufacturer decides to make a new x86 based single board computer has got a difficult trade-off to make between the capabilities of the board and the price of the board because the problem is the cost of a component to an x86 based SBC are significantly higher than for an arm base board like a Raspberry Pi particular the processor is going to cost lot more whether it comes from Intel or AMD and as you'll notice you've been watching this channel for a while we've seen some new x86 based boards coming to market in recent years which have been really really good board but they've cost at least twice as much as the Odyssey models and that's put them out of the the price range of many people and therefore it's great to see the Odyssey board starting at 188 dollars going up to about what two hundred and fifty ish dollars if you include Windows so it's a really good price point and even when you've added in a case and I can't wait to see the case for about $15 fairly soon you've got a board which is significantly cheaper than for example and Intel and you see in lots of the same form factor with all sorts of potential applications talking of potential applications I've been planning for some time to make a video on three nerves and I'll there for me using the Odyssey x86 J for 105 to FreeNAS board in a video fairly soon but now that's it front of the video you've enjoyed you see no police bestowed like button if you haven't subscribed please subscribe and I hope to talk to you again very soon [Music] you

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Keywords: Odyssey X86, Odyssey X86 review, Odyssey X86J4105, Odyssey X86J4105 review, Odyssey X86J4105800, Odyssey X86J4105865, Kdenlive, Windows 10 SBC, Windows SBC, X86 SBC, Best Windows SBC, Seeed Studio, Seed SBC, Seed X86 SBC, Christopher Barnatt, Celeron SBC, NVMe SBC, two Ethernet SBC, dual Ethernet, Odyssey X86 demo, Odyssey X86 Linux Mint, Odyssey X86 BIOS

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Length: 21min 50sec (1310 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 05 2020

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[u/NerdyApex]

Very curious about pfsense performance.