peter green wrote:
Tim Fletcher wrote:The cubox pro, 2gb of ram and esata. From here:http://www.newit.co.uk/shop/proddetail.php?prod=CuBoxProSeems very weak on the CPUThe other option is the mirabox which is only 1gb of ram but has real mini pcie slots. Available here: http://www.newit.co.uk/shop/proddetail.php?prod=Mirabox1GB of ram is simply unacceptable for an autobuilder nowadays.After the bad stuff i'm reading about the arndaleboard (apparently problems even at 1.4 GHz despite the advertised speed being 1.8 GHz) i'm thinking the 2GB nitrogen6x is the best option right now.Has anyone here hammered on a nitrogen6x or similar board? is it stable at the advertised 1GHz with all cores loaded?
Ok to fill in on some developments.I got a 2GB nitrogen6x and have been testing it. It crashed a couple of times with the first kernel I was using (the one that was included in an image I got from armhf) but I then upgraded the kernel and it's been stable since. I also added a heatsink just before I upgraded the kernel but I don't think that made any difference (it crashed while building eglibc just before I put the heatsink on, crashed while building eglibc after I put the heatsink on but before I upgraded the kernel and built eglibc successfully after upgrading the kernel).
However just as I was becoming reasonablly happy with the nitrogen6x's stability I happened to notice on twitter that wandboard,org have released a board with the same basic hardware for about twice the price. So now I need to get one of those and check it out too...........