**Single Board Computer Review: Odroid M1**

As I began testing the Odroid M1 single board computer, I was excited to see how it would perform with Android on board. One of the things that struck me first was how snappy everything gets done very quickly. The unit is extremely responsive and efficient, which is great for a device that's meant to handle multiple tasks at once.

Unfortunately, one major drawback of the Odroid M1 is that it no longer supports Google Play services, which means we can't access the official Google Play Store. However, this doesn't mean we're out of luck. The board comes with the Odroid Settings, which allows us to adjust the CPU speed and governor to our liking. I've set my CPU speed at 1.99 GHz and Performance Governor on, and when it comes to the GPU, I'm stuck at 800 MHz due to the Rockchip chip. While this might be a limitation for some users, I was happy to see that the board can still handle demanding tasks.

One of the things I did test with the Odroid M1 is its ability to play 4K video. The unit has an HDMI 2.0 port and can handle 4K at 60 Hz, which is impressive for a single board computer. I used the Arcade 3568 as a benchmark device, and I was pleased to see that it performed similarly to other devices with similar specs.

Next, I decided to test out a native Android game on the Odroid M1. While the unit isn't capable of handling high-end games like GingerBreak or Impact, there are still plenty of options available for casual gaming. I loaded up Among Us, Minecraft, and Real Racing 3, and was happy to see that they all performed reasonably well.

For emulation, the Odroid M1 has its limitations. While it can handle some older games with ease, others are more challenging to emulate due to the limited capabilities of the Rockchip chip. I tested Dreamcast using Redream, which worked surprisingly well at 60 FPS. However, PS3 and PSP emulators are still out of reach for now.

In terms of performance, the Odroid M1 is a solid choice for projects that require more power than the Raspberry Pi 4. While it's not the best option for gaming, it's a great alternative for tasks like emulation, video playback, and general computing. The board also comes with plenty of storage options, including an M.2 slot, SATA port, and support for NVMe SSDs.

I'm excited to share another video soon, where I'll be installing Ubuntu on the Odroid M1 and testing its performance using benchmarking tools. With the built-in Weyland drivers for the Mali GPU, I expect to see some impressive results. If you're interested in seeing a video like this with benchmarks and Ubuntu on the M1, be sure to subscribe and turn on notifications.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on everybody it's eta prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at the all new odroid m1 from hard kernel this is their newest single board computer to hit the market and they're offering two different variants really the only thing that changes between the two is the ram amount we have four gigs of ram or eight i opted to pick up the eight gigabyte version and this is going for ninety dollars over on their website right now this little board does support an m.2 nvme ssd and you can boot directly from it right out of the box i was able to boot from that we also have the option to add an emmc module from hard kernel or we can always boot from a micro sd card taking a look at the overall layout of the board it's actually a larger single board computer when you compare it to others but we have a lot of i o to work with first up we have the m.2 slot this does support an nvme ssd it's running at pcie 3x2 speeds along with the m.2 we also have a sata port here and sata power you will have to get the sata power cable separately but they also offer a mounting system to mount a 2.5 inch drive over top of the board we've also got a micro sd card slot emmc module slot a 3.5 millimeter audio jack an ir receiver and this does have a real-time clock built in so you can use an rtc battery right here we've also got access to 40 gpio pins and a dsi connector so we can do dual displays out one over dsi one over hdmi 2.0 dsi supports 800 by 600 usb 2.0 4k 60. moving around to the back side we have our power input and this supports 12 volts i'm going to be using a 12 volt 2 amp power supply that's what they suggest we've got two usb 3.0 ports two full size usb 2.0 ports plus micro usb 2.0 full size hdmi 2.0 this will do 4k 60 out and gigabit ethernet as you can see this does have a pre-installed heatsink it's pretty massive and i haven't had to add a fan to it you could always add a fan there is a header for 5 volts out if you want to but in my test this works passively cool just fine no thermal throttling moving over to the specs for the cpu this is using the rockchip arcade 3568 it's a quad core cortex a55 cpu running at 1.99 gigahertz the gpu is a mali g52 mp2 at 800 megahertz you can pick this up with either four gigs or eight gigs of ram it's using lp ddr4 storage we've covered it but we've got an m.2 slot sd emmc and sata and right now over on their website they're offering an android 11 image and ubuntu but i'm sure we'll see a lot of stuff coming to this in the near future it's still really early for the m1 in this first look video we're going to be testing out their android 11 build and i will do another video dedicated to ubuntu when it comes to my setup i'm just going to go ahead and add an rtc battery i have a bunch of these laying around and we've got a spot for it mine as well i've got android 11 installed on that 32 gigabyte emmc module and i've also installed ubuntu on that m.2 drive we'll be doing a full video on ubuntu but i kind of wanted to get android out of the way first and once it's set up it looks something like this uh the first thing we're going to be testing here is android 11. like i mentioned it's still really early for the m1 but they do have an image available and the m1 has petite boot built in so i've got both of my drives installed and i can select which operating system or which drive i want to boot from here i'm going to go with that emmc module because that's where i have android installed i've been messing around with android for about 24 hours now and i mean it's actually really snappy everything gets done very quickly but unfortunately we don't have google play now with the older odroid boards we have the odroid settings which we could always flash something like gaps but with this i can't flash gaps right now i'm sure this will be fixed in the future so a lot of the stuff i wanted to test just isn't going to work because we don't have google play services but we can access third party app stores and i've installed app toy got a few games that i wanted to test here and a couple emulators but not everything i wanted to test is going to be available because no google play services so there are games here that i just can't test that i usually do with these single board computers when it comes to these odroid boards running android we usually get odroid settings and from here we can adjust the cpu speed and governor i'm set at 1.99 gigahertz i've got the performance governor on and when it comes to the gpu i'm obviously at performance at 800 megahertz that's as high as we can go with this rock chip cpu a couple months ago i actually tested the same chip and another single board computer is more like an android tv box single board computer and when it comes to 4k video playback with this chip it does a great job 4k 60. i usually like testing with youtube but as you saw we just can't access it so i'm going to be running this from an external drive so far so good it does have that hdmi 2.0 so we can do 4k 60 to an external monitor and like i mentioned this arcade 3568 really does a great job with 4k video playback so we're not going to have any issues there at least in android now it's time to test out a native android game and with a chip like the arcade 3568 you're not going to be doing any of the high-end stuff this isn't going to run ginge and impact but there's still a lot of games that will be playable on this unit you want to do some among us some minecraft and even real racing 3 here it does work out pretty decently from what i've found from the arcade 3568 it's around the same performance as the s905 x4 it's time to check out a little bit of emulation and when it comes to this chipset it's not going to be the best for emulation at least high-end emulation older stuff in 64 at a lower resolution and as you can see here dreamcast does work quite well at the native resolution i'm using redream here with fighting vipers2 not bad i mean we're getting 60fps with it when it comes to psp the harder to emulate games are kind of going to be out of the question unless you don't mind using frame skip god of war got midnight club kill zone but there are easier to emulate games that will work on this at the native red so i'm at 1x here with the vulcan back in using the standalone version of ppsspp it's running pretty decently with this one i've done some more testing with the m1 and android and going into this i kind of knew what kind of performance i could expect out of this chipset here if you're looking for a more powerful board i would definitely go with the odroid n2 over the m1 i wouldn't choose the m1 for gaming but we do have a lot of storage options built into this board that way we could build a nice little router or a nice little nas out of it with that m.2 slot plus we have sata here and the chipset's definitely going to handle that kind of stuff but when it comes to emulation and gaming the m1 is definitely not my first option i would go with something like the n2 if you're looking for a little more power than the raspberry pi 4. but for projects that need these extra storage options the m1 might be for you now like i mentioned i will have another video coming up i've got ubuntu installed on an nvme ssd and so far it's been working pretty decently their image does have weyland drivers built in for this mali gpu so i think we can get some pretty decent desktop performance out of this machine so if you're interested in seeing a video like that with a bunch of benchmarks and ubuntu with the m1 definitely stay tuned to the channel and it'd be really cool if you could hit that subscribe button and maybe turn notifications on so you know when i post my next one and if there's anything specific you want to see running in linux on the m1 let me know in the comments below but that's it for this one and like always thanks for watching youhey what's going on everybody it's eta prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at the all new odroid m1 from hard kernel this is their newest single board computer to hit the market and they're offering two different variants really the only thing that changes between the two is the ram amount we have four gigs of ram or eight i opted to pick up the eight gigabyte version and this is going for ninety dollars over on their website right now this little board does support an m.2 nvme ssd and you can boot directly from it right out of the box i was able to boot from that we also have the option to add an emmc module from hard kernel or we can always boot from a micro sd card taking a look at the overall layout of the board it's actually a larger single board computer when you compare it to others but we have a lot of i o to work with first up we have the m.2 slot this does support an nvme ssd it's running at pcie 3x2 speeds along with the m.2 we also have a sata port here and sata power you will have to get the sata power cable separately but they also offer a mounting system to mount a 2.5 inch drive over top of the board we've also got a micro sd card slot emmc module slot a 3.5 millimeter audio jack an ir receiver and this does have a real-time clock built in so you can use an rtc battery right here we've also got access to 40 gpio pins and a dsi connector so we can do dual displays out one over dsi one over hdmi 2.0 dsi supports 800 by 600 usb 2.0 4k 60. moving around to the back side we have our power input and this supports 12 volts i'm going to be using a 12 volt 2 amp power supply that's what they suggest we've got two usb 3.0 ports two full size usb 2.0 ports plus micro usb 2.0 full size hdmi 2.0 this will do 4k 60 out and gigabit ethernet as you can see this does have a pre-installed heatsink it's pretty massive and i haven't had to add a fan to it you could always add a fan there is a header for 5 volts out if you want to but in my test this works passively cool just fine no thermal throttling moving over to the specs for the cpu this is using the rockchip arcade 3568 it's a quad core cortex a55 cpu running at 1.99 gigahertz the gpu is a mali g52 mp2 at 800 megahertz you can pick this up with either four gigs or eight gigs of ram it's using lp ddr4 storage we've covered it but we've got an m.2 slot sd emmc and sata and right now over on their website they're offering an android 11 image and ubuntu but i'm sure we'll see a lot of stuff coming to this in the near future it's still really early for the m1 in this first look video we're going to be testing out their android 11 build and i will do another video dedicated to ubuntu when it comes to my setup i'm just going to go ahead and add an rtc battery i have a bunch of these laying around and we've got a spot for it mine as well i've got android 11 installed on that 32 gigabyte emmc module and i've also installed ubuntu on that m.2 drive we'll be doing a full video on ubuntu but i kind of wanted to get android out of the way first and once it's set up it looks something like this uh the first thing we're going to be testing here is android 11. like i mentioned it's still really early for the m1 but they do have an image available and the m1 has petite boot built in so i've got both of my drives installed and i can select which operating system or which drive i want to boot from here i'm going to go with that emmc module because that's where i have android installed i've been messing around with android for about 24 hours now and i mean it's actually really snappy everything gets done very quickly but unfortunately we don't have google play now with the older odroid boards we have the odroid settings which we could always flash something like gaps but with this i can't flash gaps right now i'm sure this will be fixed in the future so a lot of the stuff i wanted to test just isn't going to work because we don't have google play services but we can access third party app stores and i've installed app toy got a few games that i wanted to test here and a couple emulators but not everything i wanted to test is going to be available because no google play services so there are games here that i just can't test that i usually do with these single board computers when it comes to these odroid boards running android we usually get odroid settings and from here we can adjust the cpu speed and governor i'm set at 1.99 gigahertz i've got the performance governor on and when it comes to the gpu i'm obviously at performance at 800 megahertz that's as high as we can go with this rock chip cpu a couple months ago i actually tested the same chip and another single board computer is more like an android tv box single board computer and when it comes to 4k video playback with this chip it does a great job 4k 60. i usually like testing with youtube but as you saw we just can't access it so i'm going to be running this from an external drive so far so good it does have that hdmi 2.0 so we can do 4k 60 to an external monitor and like i mentioned this arcade 3568 really does a great job with 4k video playback so we're not going to have any issues there at least in android now it's time to test out a native android game and with a chip like the arcade 3568 you're not going to be doing any of the high-end stuff this isn't going to run ginge and impact but there's still a lot of games that will be playable on this unit you want to do some among us some minecraft and even real racing 3 here it does work out pretty decently from what i've found from the arcade 3568 it's around the same performance as the s905 x4 it's time to check out a little bit of emulation and when it comes to this chipset it's not going to be the best for emulation at least high-end emulation older stuff in 64 at a lower resolution and as you can see here dreamcast does work quite well at the native resolution i'm using redream here with fighting vipers2 not bad i mean we're getting 60fps with it when it comes to psp the harder to emulate games are kind of going to be out of the question unless you don't mind using frame skip god of war got midnight club kill zone but there are easier to emulate games that will work on this at the native red so i'm at 1x here with the vulcan back in using the standalone version of ppsspp it's running pretty decently with this one i've done some more testing with the m1 and android and going into this i kind of knew what kind of performance i could expect out of this chipset here if you're looking for a more powerful board i would definitely go with the odroid n2 over the m1 i wouldn't choose the m1 for gaming but we do have a lot of storage options built into this board that way we could build a nice little router or a nice little nas out of it with that m.2 slot plus we have sata here and the chipset's definitely going to handle that kind of stuff but when it comes to emulation and gaming the m1 is definitely not my first option i would go with something like the n2 if you're looking for a little more power than the raspberry pi 4. but for projects that need these extra storage options the m1 might be for you now like i mentioned i will have another video coming up i've got ubuntu installed on an nvme ssd and so far it's been working pretty decently their image does have weyland drivers built in for this mali gpu so i think we can get some pretty decent desktop performance out of this machine so if you're interested in seeing a video like that with a bunch of benchmarks and ubuntu with the m1 definitely stay tuned to the channel and it'd be really cool if you could hit that subscribe button and maybe turn notifications on so you know when i post my next one and if there's anything specific you want to see running in linux on the m1 let me know in the comments below but that's it for this one and like always thanks for watching you\n"