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I'm looking at some CWWK, topton, and oaknode boards online for an upcoming build. I'm throwing proxmox and OPNsense on this. There's a ryzen 8845HS board I'm curious about but there's also some intel boards I could drop an i5-14600T used CPU into that could work well too. Either way I would have an intel ARC GPU in the PCI slot for media decode/encode and a coral TPU in the E-key M2 slot for frigate object recognition.

But I get conflicting info online about these boards being a waste of time and money. I see things about them burning out, or having weird BIOS bugs that never get fixed. On the other hand, NAScompares seems to like these boards. Are these something I should avoid?

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[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

ODROID might be an option

https://www.odroid.nl/Odroid-H4-Plus

They're from South Korea, so likely better quality than cwwk

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That is an interesting option but I’m not sure 4 gracemont cores could do full IPS in opnsense.

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 2 points 11 months ago

There's a 8 core version, but yea isn't ideal of all situations