Motherboard Anyone seen this? Udoo Bolt, a maker motherboard with Ryzen SoC

[CC Ricers]

I just found this link posted on /r/sffPC and think it might be of interest here.


It comes with a Ryzen embedded V1000 series processor (up to V1605B w/Vega 8), dual ECC DDR4 support, three m.2 slots, and I think most interesting of all is the integrated Arduino platform. The board size is pretty small at 4.7" square too, actually a tad smaller than mini STX!

This is still a Kickstarter project in development and they met their goal. Hopefully they can deliver on schedule.

 

[owliwar]

Ok this is awesome .o.
like wow

wish I had the money to back this but dang, this will be very inter sting to see latter on. its way better than most notebooks.I wasn't expecting that with the ryzen embed processors but it makes a ton of sense

 

[Therandomness]

Words cannot describe how much I'd love to have one.

 

[T_Tank]

This is pretty dope compared to the latte alpha good grief that's awesome.

 

[Hifihedgehog]

IR and metal case tier... This has AMD NUC killer written all over it. As a matter of fact, this would make a competent HTPC.

 

[chinevo]

OMG! Have become a backer. It will be a cute 0.45-0.49L build in the beginning of 2019

 

[AleksandarK]

Dream SBC! This is a potential NUC killer if lives.

 

[thewizzard1]

If only it was equipped with the 54W V1000 series.

 

[GuilleAcoustic]

Udoo always made interesting boards

 

[EdZ]

Hm... If it can grab a raw composite input rather than just attaching a capture card and getting an iffy-quality frame a few hundred ms later (not sure if the 'Arduino compatible' analog ins are fast enough for that) I might be able to use this instead of a uber-beefy FPGA. It wouldn't hit the near-line-speed that an FPGA implementation could, but ideally delay would not be beyond 1 frame / ~16.6ms (could be less if you can 'race the beam' on Vega) and I'd be able to put off learning Verilog or VHDL yet further...

 

[Hifihedgehog]

Holy cow. It is already over 200% funded only a day or two in and the viral buzz keeps growing by the hour. This will be an excellent entry in the market and for AMD should give the Intel NUC a real run for the money. What makes this so crazy good is this is basically an Intel NUC, Mac Mini, Xbox One, Raspberry Pi and Arduino all wrapped into one slick, versatile package. With any luck, other manufacturers are likely taking notice and will follow suit with their own AMD NUC clones.

As an aside, I know this is just anecdotal, but if this is reflective of AMD’s market penetration, they are in very good shape. Zen 3/Ryzen 2000 series should be a slam dunk if things continue on schedule as they have been.

 

[CC Ricers]

Still not over until July 31, too! That gives us lots of time to decide or save up to be a backer for one of these units. I would just like to get the Bolt V8 board by itself. How much power consumption can we expect from this little board? 50W in total would be a good guess of mine.

 

[Hifihedgehog]

Still not over until July 31, too! That gives us lots of time to decide or save up to be a backer for one of these units. I would just like to get the Bolt V8 board by itself. How much power consumption can we expect from this little board? 50W in total would be a good guess of mine.

Per their reply in the project comments, they are still deciding on what TDP to set the CPU at. For what it is worth, the range they have to play with is 12-25W. If you keep accessories down to a minimum, I am guessing an average total system power draw around 15-25W with heavy loads around 30-40W at most. Of course, if you add in mechanical hard drives or a vast array of attached peripherals, that will add to the total system power draw.

 

[Kmpkt]

Swap the Arduino and Grove headers with a PCIe x8 or x16 and I'm in

 

[Soul_Est]

Well damn. Just when I was going to get a Nintendo Switch. This would make for an excellent replacement to my ThinkPad X201 for productivity, content creation, and gaming.

 

[GuilleAcoustic]

Swap the Arduino and Grove headers with a PCIe x8 or x16 and I'm in

Udoo are and will always be development boards. That won't happen ;-)

 

[EdZ]

Well damn. Just when I was going to get a Nintendo Switch. This would make for an excellent replacement to my ThinkPad X201 for productivity, content creation, and gaming.

You could still get the Swich and run Linux, though you would need a Bluetooth KB & M until the USB host controller support is working.

 

[Soul_Est]

You could still get the Swich and run Linux, though you would need a Bluetooth KB & M until the USB host controller support is working.

Going to try that too as I just backed the UDOO BOLT project for a V8 + 8 GB RAM kit.

EDIT: The author linked to a better guide: https://github.com/natinusala/painless-linux

 

[T_Tank]

isn't there a m2/nvme to pice x16 slot adapter I vaguely remember that being something used in the stx psu case that was made many moons ago. Could use one of those to slap in a slightly beefier gpu.

 

[Soul_Est]

isn't there a m2/nvme to pice x16 slot adapter I vaguely remember that being something used in the stx psu case that was made many moons ago. Could use one of those to slap in a slightly beefier gpu.

Yes in Aibohphobia's STX160.0 thread! Good show reminding us of that.