UDOO BOLT: Ryzen Maker Board

[Music] welcome to another video from explaining computers calm this time we're going to take a look at this the highly anticipated you do bolt which has been supplied review but by friends out you do now the bolt is a make aboard a small computer with an embedded Rison processor and onboard Vega graphics and you do haven't you sent me the board know this arrived at a very large box let me show you it's a yeah got it down here a very large box and this contains awful thoughts so that you do volt accessories peripherals and things this is the power supply I think was also various package containing exciting things as a case in here as well so we can look at the whole you do bolt ecosystem and there's also a laminate in here that lets us know that the you do bolt is now available to be ordered from Mauser dot-com so this is all very exciting so let's go and take a closer look right here we have the you do bolt and you can see it written on the end there that lovely a spot laminate effect so let's get straight inside it just opens up very easy and oh yes it looks it's great packaging I love this is take this thing out and whoa there we are that is the lead you do bulbs that come out like that at the box out the way and we just now try and get the packaging off here is it sealed it is we could easily wear it just there we are and all crinkle crinkle and wall there we are the YouTube bolt board and that looks rather nice doesn't it and as you can see it's dominated by a large cooler and fan and heatsink there which we expect on a of this power and it's worth saying there were two different versions of this board there is the v3 and the v8 and this is a v8 and to let you know the differences that's turned to this table where as you can see that v8 is based on a Verizon embedded the 1605 B whereas the of these three is based on a rice embedded v12 m2b and this means that the v8 is a quad-core system with a processor running it to 2 gigahertz base we can see 3.6 gigahertz maximum frequency rows of these three is a dual-core processor running at two points three gigahertz base frequency 3.2 gigahertz maximum frequency and as you can see on the v8 we get Radian Vega eight graphics running at up to 11 100 megahertz and on the v3 you can probably tell them a name now we get to the radian vegas three graphics running it up to a thousand megahertz and all the other specs of the board are the same aside from the price which is four hundred and eighteen dollars for the you do bolt the eight and three hundred and thirty two dollars for the you do bolt the three clearly these prices means that the you do bolt is an expensive maker board but it does offer a greater the power a great deal of connectivity in this form factor which is what twelve by twelve centimeters that's what about 4.7 by 4.7 inches and talking of the size of the board let's compare it to some other small computers such as the you do x86 advanced plus a lot a panda alpha and a Raspberry Pi and clearly the bolt is much larger than these other boards but it's also significantly smaller than the standard mini ITX motherboard if you want to put together a really small Rison based computer so let's now focus in on the specifications other than the processor and the first thing to talk about is memory there is no onboard memory on this board this is not a single board computer we have to add memory modules and as you can probably see there were two sodium's dots which we add the memory into and these take ddr4 modules DDR 2400 and we can have the total capacity of RAM up to 32 gigabytes if we turn to the front edge we find a barrel jack for power this requires 19 volts at at least 60 watts and then next to that we've got a Gigabit Ethernet socket and then next to that we've got two USB seaports and these will support DisplayPort output and the next of those with GaAs as you can see two full-sized HDMI ports HDMI 2.0 ports so we've got four ports here which could all support 4k output you can connect four independent 4k displays to a YouTube but and then finally here we've got audio output both them analog and digital virus 3.5 millimeter audio jack and talking of audio output if we rotate around to the next edge of the board we find two pre amplified speaker connectors rotating to the next edge we find a second 3.5 millimeter jack this is a headphone and a microphone input combination socket and then next to that we've got to type a USB 3 port one port and then moving along from those we've got a an IR receiver we've got a power switch and we've got a front panel connector finally rotating to our last edge we find lots of lots of exciting things not least down here we've got SATA data and power connector so we can connect a standard saturd drive and then there's lots of other things here that really show the the maker potential of the you tube bolt we start we've got three Grove connectors here and these give this a analog uot and ic2 connections and then we've got here a couple of our do we know compatible connectors and this is because the you do build has got an inbuilt 80 mega 30 to you for microcontroller and indeed we cut to a shot of the base of the board we can see that little chip right down here very useful thing to have it's connected to the main Rison processor internally for a USB connection so it's exactly like having an arduino leonardo connected to a standard PC via a USB port but here it's integrated onto the board and it gives us a whole range of connections not least as 12 analog inputs up to 23 digital inputs and outputs seven of which have got PW and so there's all kinds of possibilities to use a using bolt for things like robotics also on the underside of the board we've got a real time clock battery you can't have missed it it's nicely fastened down that's good to see and then we've also got three m dot two slots the first of these is an e key to start here this is for a wireless module because there isn't onboard Wi-Fi and bluetooth on this board but you can add in a wireless module in this slot and then we've got a B key then got to stop that's this one this will take a satyr to SSD and then we've also got an M key to stop here this will take an nvme SSD and the interface here is a PCIe x for generations three so we can add a really fast nvme SSD this all said you don't have to add storage to a new do bolt to start using it because here we've got 32 gigabytes of onboard flash storage so we can boot from that initially and other other storage that we needed so there we are that is all the specs I think of the YouTube bolt first us now turn it around the other way there it is and just be amazed at this fantastic small computer right here we have all the accessories the peripherals that you do have kindly supplied to use with my you do bolt some of these are essential some are nice to haves so let's start with the essentials clear with a space as well and the first of all let's deal with power this is clearly a power lead and in here is the power supply which is Achille it's a power supply we're used to power adapters that'll go obviously in there and this provides us 19 volts at a 60 watt adapter there isn't currently an official price for this but when that is available on the you do website I will either add it in the caption in this video if I could find out during the edit or I'll put a link in the video description the other thing we have to have is some memory and this is a nice little package of memory and there we are I've got inside and the board can take one or two sodium's so it can have either 4 gigabytes of RAM all the way up to or 32 gigabytes of RAM these are to 16 gigabytes how things I've been supply so I'm gonna have lots of RAM on my YouTube bolt let's just get us done give a knife to it that is in here get into these these are all stop first sodium module obviously handle these very carefully I am electrostatically grounded right now so let's put this down over here carefully out of the way and also the other module can rest there beside it and now let's turn to these exciting bags which contain all sorts of things this first one I think isn't HDMI link they'll be on a nicer HDMI lead and then next thing here is I think a SATA cable kit and there we are there's some cables to connect the SATA drive that data and power to the YouTube bolt I won't be using these in this video but now we're gonna be very handy to have these in the video in a few weeks time which you're gonna be testing out some SSDs nothing called user you do both of that I'll use those cables next here we've got a m dot 2 SATA SSD and there we are which using it's a protective packaging as well so let's get that out of the packaging and put it down over here this is a MDOT two twenty two sixty SATA SSD which means it's 60 millimeters long to fit on the you tube bolt and it's a transcend and TS 600 it's 128 gigabytes and it sold for $78 90 finally our last of these envelopes is this which is a wireless module and there we are and as you can see this is an end up to device this will add a Wi-Fi and bluetooth to the YouTube but and again let's put those safely out of the way and then finally I can find it somewhere here this is in some ways the most exciting thing this is the you do bolts enclosure its case again there isn't an official price for this yet but it looks like a fantastic thing from the pictures I've seen online and we're about to see it in the real world and come on doesn't want to open oh this is a serious piece of metal this is a really really serious piece of metal look at that this is a beautiful looking case this is going to give a really good protection to the news and bolt you want to use a YouTube bolt as a small PC as it may be a media playing PC what a fantastic case to putting in so I now need to put everything together I think I'll start with the memory there we are we've now got 32 gigabytes of RAM and onto the board I'm now going to fit three MDOT to peripherals and there we are the first is via wireless networking card to give us Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and there's the transcend SATA SSD and I'm also going to fit this WD black nvme SSD why do I need all these drives in this board no but I want to test the speed of all these interfaces so I needed drive fitted in this slot so there we are 3m doctor peripherals have been fitted so all I now need to do is to fit the board in the case it's a very snug fit with a very good fit which is a really really nice case so I'll just put the top on and there we are the you to vote is ready for action and as you can hopefully see the case is really good because we've got all the connectors on the front all the connections on the back you would expect those n tha's that's the front isn't it but you can also get access to all the other connectors on these panels on the side of the case and there's also some space in here if you want you can mount a 2.5 inch SSD but there we are all finished I think it's now time for us to try out the you do bolt right I've now got the you do bolt all connected up and running and specifically we're running Ubuntu which was pre-installed for me on the EMF see flash and as we can see here in the system monitor the affor CPU caused eight threads are running along perfectly happily and we've got over 30 gigabytes of free memory so obviously all the memory is working fine as you might be able to hear the fan is quite noisy the fan on the you do bolt goes between being completely on or completely off at least here in Ubuntu this might be a fan control issue although apparently you do are working on a firmware update for the BIOS to potentially give us some more fan control in the BIOS as there isn't currently any fan control in the BIOS things might be better with the fan in Windows as I'll try in a minute but here in Ubuntu is what we would do is just to bring up the terminal down here and run a few tests of a speed of O's drive we've got connected to the system and so first of all I'm going to test the speed of the nvme SSD which is the WD black drive which has got a rated speed of three thousand four hundred megabytes a second so it's just that all the fans will off that's just stuff you on that to put my password in and let's see what speed we get on this it's reading the disk very exciting what we're gonna see all look two thousand seven hundred and thirty eight megabytes a second that's not a bad speed let's just bring in the speed I've tested on that drive in different systems which as you can see rages from 2004 and 47 megabytes a second on an i7 PC to an 18 20 on lot a panda alpha and down to about 496 of 446 on far smaller single board computers so clearly we've got a well configured nvme SSD socket on there you do bolt let's just test out the other drives here we've got there the n dot 2 SATA SSD and see what that gives us again excitement they're all 518 megabytes a second I can believe that's the speed of the drive that Stockley works very well indeed and finally let's just do the speed of the emmc flush on the ball itself what we're running from right here again what's do is all going to be obviously lower than these but oh that's pretty good almost 200 megabytes a second for the internal BMOC flash so those are pretty good results and I think we'll now move on to take a look at the BIOS now here we are in the BIOS on the YouTube bolt and it's a fantastic BIOS under advanced here there's all kinds of options was it brown disk configuration utility that's that's rather nice all sorts of stuff here so you've got great control of the board if you want to set things up just as you want them if you're wondering what's down in a main thermal configuration that is to a setting for when the chip starts to throttle when the process starts to throttle suddenly not fan control you've got everything here you can control totally except for fan control chipset control the Northbridge and Southbridge normal security type things lots and lots of boot configuration options great to see who we've got lots of storage you might want to configure and on the end as you would expect you can also override the boot options and as you might have seen down here I've actually got a SanDisk USB Drive currently plugged in to the machine because I want to install Windows so I'm going to select that to boot from all O'Keefe says you do bolt and this will hopefully now allow me to set up Windows has looks rather hopeful there it is so I'm not going to get told and install Windows 10 I'll come back to you when it's finished so here I am back with Windows 10 installed on the you do vault very little or working nicely and to make door work I did go to the web and I downloaded two drivers for the v-series 1000 Radian embedded chip so I've got the writer graphics drivers here that's all running fine and so what I thought I'd now do is to run up pass mock so he can get some comparison of his PC versus other pcs so I'm going to run the pass marker benchmark now we run all the tests yes we are I will speed through most of this and also there'll be some slight breaks in recording due to changes in resolution and here we are in the first Tweedy graphics test flying some planes around the look so pretty good oh well back to having these lovely shots of these floating islands of the trees on them I I do like this too part of the test and we're getting a frame right for about 12 13 maybe even 14 frames a second and now we're back with a floating jellyfish in space test which I call it which is not doing too badly to hang about it 30 frames a second here this is not bad performance isn't for the onboard embedded graphics and in the final 3d graphics tests were off into it outer space running at about what 18 to 20 frames a second and this is this again is not bad this it's amazing what you can do these days on a small computer and there we are it's finished and we've got a final pass mark score of what three one nine two a CPU marks seven nine one five 2d graphics 60 to 120 graphics 1841 Mary bark 166 4 and a 3 240 dis Mach which is a pretty good isn't it so let's just say okay to that I won't send it online from now and here we've got the results relative to to other systems I've tested fairly recently on this channel until I think relevant systems one is the Lotte Panda alpha which is a similarly priced x86 maker board and you can see clearly that the you do bolt is significantly faster the past box score of three one nine two versus two 280 and then also I've got a comparative score here against the rising three to 200g budget PC I built earlier this year which is coming up slightly better out of three to five two versus a three one nine two and it's interesting for me that both of these systems are being tested here using their onboard Vega TechEd graphics now clearly some of you will save a - 200 G system that only comes out on top it's also cheaper than a YouTube bolt and that's certainly true but we mustn't forget you're paying a premium here to have a very small maker board with that onboard Arduino but anyway hopefully these are useful comparative results showing the performance of the YouTube bolt the you do bolt is a beautiful computer at a very powerful make of board potential applications include robotics a I digital signage media playback virtual reality and use as a small desktop PC but what would you do with a YouTube bolt please let us all know down in the comments section but now that's it for another video who've enjoy what you see here please press star 2 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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Id: 8DINmS5YBD4

Length: 21min 45sec (1305 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 11 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/Ostracus]

Still pretty pricey.

[u/tajarhina]

It does (-:

Except for the fan, that is as noisy as it looks. Cooling is less than optimal, but it is the very thing you can tweak the most, too!