The Custom Arm PC Era is here.

Can we finally build a midrange Arm PC? Maybe. Thanks to Micro Center for sponsoring this video!

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Links to things I mentioned in the video:

- Radxa Orion O6: https://radxa.com/products/orion/o6/
- System76 Thelio Astra video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AshDjtlV6go
- All my O6 test results: https://github.com/geerlingguy/sbc-reviews/issues/62
- O6 LLM test results: https://github.com/geerlingguy/ollama-benchmark/issues/13
- O6 HPL test results: https://github.com/geerlingguy/top500-benchmark/issues/54

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Contents:

00:00 - The Orion O6
01:04 - RSJ shopping trip
01:58 - Hardware overview
03:37 - What it can (and can't) do
05:48 - Performance and power inconsistency
07:35 - Custom Arm PC build
08:22 - Windows 11 (on Arm)
10:20 - Nvidia GPU on Windows?
11:00 - Many GPUs in Linux
13:18 - Quirks and recommendations
16:10 - Tariffs