The Custom Arm PC Era is here.

Jeff Geerling May 9, 2025
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Can we finally build a midrange Arm PC? Maybe. Thanks to Micro Center for sponsoring this video! Shop Micro Center’s Top Deals: https://micro.center/d6a529 Sign up for a FREE 128gig Flash Drive When Santa Clara Opens: https://micro.center/af854c Check out Micro Center’s GPU Trade In Program: https://micro.center/92b995 Read up on ALL Things Tech at MC News: https://micro.center/4972f0 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 Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/geerlingguy Sponsor me on GitHub: https://github.com/sponsors/geerlingguy Merch: https://www.redshirtjeff.com 2nd Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@GeerlingEngineering 3rd Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Level2Jeff 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

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