5 Plus 16GB LPDDR4/4x Rockchip RK3588 8-Core 64-Bit Single Board Computer with eMMC Socket, Development Board Run Orange Pi/Ubuntu/Debian/Android 12 OS (Pi 5 Plus 16G+Type-C Power Supply)

I'm writting a review 6 months later...This board is exactly what I was looking for, I even tried nvidia jetson xavier and it was a pain in the A** to work with GPIO's and with dual monitor.With orangepi5plus was very straight forward, and I booted from SSD after booting from sd card. I even created a python library to use the gpios, because it didn't existed or I wasn't able to get an existing one up and running.The dual monitors work great, the board does alot more than what I expected. My project is about video streaming. I will actually buy a bunch more.I feel I will no longer use rpi's no more.Thanks.

This little computer has it all, but configuring it is an exercise in frustration.The OS images won't boot. (Use Armbian.com instead.)The support forum says they'll send a confirmation e-mail, but they don't despite multiple attempts.Most of the mandatory tools are in the Chinese language. Guides are all over the place; difficult to find the one needed.My intent was to replace my nVidia Shield with this computer running AndroidTV, but I have been unsuccessful in getting anything to boot from SD=card, NVMe-SSD or EMMC. But, I haven't given up.SELLER: What would I have to pay for one with 32GB of RAM? Name your price.

Everything is perfect except the HDMI input failure due to EMI.

A bit finicky. Still trying to get wifi and blue thooth expecting new board today box is fast...

With Joshua Riek Ubuntu or Armbian installed it is very good platform for ARM development. CPU and NVME performance is great.

TLDR version: Cool board, poor support. Orange Pi, work with upstream so your end users can just install Fedora ARM, Ubuntu ARM, Alpine Linux etc directly from them without having to use your old hacked up kernel and firmware. That would get me to 4 stars. That plus UEFI support would get me to 5 stars.---The hardware for the money is quite impressive. It's reasonably quick ( about as fast as my old intel 2017 macbook air ) and can even run extremely high resolution and high refresh rate displays like my 4K 120hz. The dual 2.5gb Ethernet is *really* cool, and makes it feel like my NAS feel almost like a local drive.But then there are all the "quirks" to put it nicely, and serious problems with the software for this board to be frank.They're *ALL* fixable problems, for the manufacturer, probably not you, sadly.First thing is the firmware required to boot the machine is open source, sure. But it's a downstream fork of u-boot. What this means for you is that getting *any* OS to load that doesn't come from Orange Pi is going to be a headache.The next thing is that the kernel required to get the full functionality here is downstream, and old. You're pretty much stuck with Linux 5.10.x because that's the only thing that was ported to this board. This is the biggest problem for me, and if Orange Pi wants a 5 star review from me, they *NEED* to work with upstream Linux and get their hardware supported in mainline.The next major problem is their own OS images, it's fine and all I guess if they want to provide their own images, but they're just using a google drive link, which means files hit their quota and you can't even download them.The Arch Linux based image I was actually able to download from them at least worked, and let me test out a bit of the hardware, but the server it connects to for updates appears to be down. ( Additionally, sorry Orange Pi, but I don't trust any of your OS Images )So, that leads us to what upstream Linux distros are available for this. The answer is not many. There's Armbian and Joshua Riek's Ubuntu Rockchip. I'm sure there are a few others as well, but I haven't bothered to try them. Both of them work, and at the time of writing HDMI works out of the box, but when you update them HDMI stops working ( At least on my HDMI 2.1 monitor ) and I'm forced to use Display Port via the USB C. Thankfully, my high refresh rate 4K does work on display port and HDMI, but this about makes it useless for using with a TV.DSC is broken or just not implemented. While 4K 144hz *is* an option on my current monitor, I get tons of artifacts attempting to use it on the usb-c/displayport. This one I'm actually somewhat okay with, the utility of super high refresh rate 4Ks on a device like this is questionable, and it doesn't default to 144hz or anything so it's fine.Also, H264 video decoding seems to be buggy at least on Ubuntu, green boxes occasionally. I'm not sure if this is a gstreamer issue or a driver issue. At least vlc always, though I didn't check to see if it was actually using hardware acceleration.I haven't tried the av1 decoding yet, but it's cool that it's a feature.I can't comment on the m.2 slot yet, because I don't have a screw. Orange Pi, you'd get an extra star just for including that.I should also mention that there *is* some effort on mainline/upstream Linux to support the RK3588 which this is based on. It's early days though, and there are still a number of things that do not work.All in all, I'm okay with my purchase, but it's not quite what I had hoped for. It's sad that ARM single board computers like this don't have any better hardware support than they did a decade ago when I last played around with them.

Let me begin with the conclusion: I will probably never buy anything related to the Orange Pi product lines again, and I rather regret my decision to make this exploratory purchase.Usage scenario: Homelab subnet gateway node handling access control, firewall, IP forwarding and intrusion detection.At first it was just a toy I to play around with, but the performance impressed me enough and there was a need, so I incorporated it into my homelab subnet build. That happy state of affairs lasted for about 2 months, until the OS began to intermittently fail and kernel panic on bootup. Subsequent bootups with clean OS images often went immediately into kernel panic. Altogether, this now accounts for an average of 50% of the reboots, and I'm literally counting the hours between kernel panic episodes that bring it to a screeching halt when I am I able to get it to boot.The logged error traces that I have been able to recover show that severe CPU latency abnormalities are the trigger that throw the kernel into panic mode and keep it there on subsequent reboots. I'm no electrical/computer engineer, but I've been around awhile and this sounds an awful lot like a defective, failing chipset to me.For the price tag, buy an ODROID. The Rockchip CPU's have impressive spec sheets but, as I've found, spec sheets are worthless if the product fails to function reliably.

Highly recommend for IRL streaming via belabox’s software.