Arock J3455M (J3455 SoC) on Linux..

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I recently picked this up and I'm going to use it for our "guest" pc which is running cloudready from neverware. I currently have a Sempron 3850 AM1 build for that & it's REALLY slow. It's usable but slow.

Wondering how much faster this is going to be...?

If this doesn't work out I'll probably toss 3 video cards into it & make it a mining box. at 10w cpu should eat way less my i5-4570 which I'm currently using.

There is also a J3555 for $10 less but I figure going 2-4 cores is worth the extra $10.

Another option for this might be a pfsense box but in a little google a lot of people are having issues with it booting on FreeBSD 11.

 

[kirbyrj]

I doubt it would be much faster. Passmark for the Sempron is ~1700 and for the J3455 ~2300. Compared to the 4570 at ~7000. I can't imagine that the i5 draws that much power when speedstep is active. Maybe not 10W, but probably not much more than that. Might be worth swapping in the i5 for your guest PC and using the others for mining.

FWIW, I have the older mITX ASRock N3150 board and it runs like a champ for 24/7 operation.

 

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I doubt it would be much faster. Passmark for the Sempron is ~1700 and for the J3455 ~2300. Compared to the 4570 at ~7000. I can't imagine that the i5 draws that much power when speedstep is active. Maybe not 10W, but probably not much more than that. Might be worth swapping in the i5 for your guest PC and using the others for mining.

FWIW, I have the older mITX ASRock N3150 board and it runs like a champ for 24/7 operation.

The single thread looks significantly better at 512 vs 790.... or a 54% difference.

My Chromebook with Celeron 2955 feels fine when browsing and that is 786/1441...

When the board shows up I'll throw it on the kill-o-watt & see how it does. One other interesting thing is that the J3455 has H265 hardware decode. I am not sure if that works in Linux but I am hoping it does.

 

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Kill-o-watt shows 15-24w or so usage at Ubuntu 17.10 desktop. Not bad!

I was able to get h265 acceleration (under 30w from the wall) with this guide.