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Emphasis on the low power. It’s just a computer, but one that is cheap and yet still capable of doing work.

Host a blog. Home automation. Dedicated SNES emulator. Personal Minecraft server. DIY NAS controller. Maybe good enough to act as a TV media player. Anywhere you might want a bit of always on compute without paying a ton.



> DIY NAS controller

Needs ECC memory to compete with low-power Ryzen with ECC.


Intel N97 seems to support a so called In-Band ECC with non-ECC UDIMMs, thus there is a slight performance hit (both memory bandwidth and processing resources). I'm curious whether N100 does support it too, though considering a huge difference in a recommended price, it could support, but it would be artificially forced disabled.


Good to know, since ODROID H4 uses N97 and has 4 SATA ports + NVME with M.2 bifurcation, https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h4-plus/ & https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/m-2-4x1-card/


Yeah, that's exactly where I've learned this from. It's just the very huge price if you need this board in Europe, which stays in the way.


Are there any low-power Ryzen boards in the same price range?


There are comparable (but beefier) things made by ASRock Industrial. I’ve been trying to get my hands on them, but it’s hard.


Are there any low-power Intel boards in the same price range, since this one is sold out?


Well, there's plenty of N100 mini PCs around, but Ryzen Embedded ones (which is I assume what you mean by low power Ryzen) are a bit more scarce.



But those don't do ECC.


Depends on OEM & BIOS, e.g. SolidRun device with Ryzen 7840HS has ECC support, https://www.solid-run.com/industrial-computers/bedrock-r7000...




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