oh well ... my turn, so, recently i did buy a FLIRC Kodi edition case which, unfortunately wasn't compatible with my Odroid C2 due to heatsink placement, so i ended getting a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ which well ... turned to be a tad disappointing, from the Pi 2 B to the Pi 3 B the feeling was good, but toward the 3 B + not as much ... okay the EMI shielded Wlan and lan was a touch better than the 3 B the SOC had a IHS and 200mhz more (tho the same SOC thus the same GPU) but ended drawing more power, i.e.: not being stable with a reliable 5V 2.4A PSU when connecting a ext HDD or a USB stick (although i only had a wireless airmouse dongle as other USB devices)
but then i did find back what the Odroid C2 was missing to be golden, a USB WiFi dongle i had kept aside but always forgot where i did put it ...
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after some testing i decided to take a case for it ...
Schroff Interscale M
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fits nicely, all Torx screws (security? well with the size of that thing ... it doesn't really matter
) vented and all opening where needed (except the uSD slot which is on a different place on a Odroid C2 but well i think about ordering a 16-32gb eMMC module from Hardkernel main site )
one slight issue ... as you can notice on that picture the Odroid C2 has no A/V 3.5 jack like the RPi, instead it has a 2.5 5V 2A jack for power supply (fortunately it can also get it from the Micro USB, but well, that would have been nice to have 5 USB 2.0 port instead of 4
if my actual 5V 2A 2.5 PSU would work with it ... )
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but, on a more positive note, i might take that opportunity to add a power switch in that spot, later.
Yep perfect.
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some things i noticed, Libreelec KODI was smoother on it (well .... thanks the 2gb RAM, stronger GPU and 100mhz more than the 3 B+ which make it 300mhz over the 3 B ) the WiFi was a touch faster (strange considering the 3 B+ had upgrade on that side and the fact that i was using a dongle ... albeit a good, cheaply priced 802.11B/G/N one from D-Link ) and the 10/100/1000 Lan is a true one (while the one on the 3 B+, which is also upgraded from a 10/100 on the 3 B top out at 300mbps~ )
and even with 2 Dongle and one USB stick on it, no power issues even using the same PSU as the RPi 3 B+ (Hardkernel do recommend 2A while RS does recommend a 2.4/5A for the RPi)
now vesus the Pi, here is the comparison versus the 3 B and Odroid C1+ and XU4 (the later featuring a Exynos Octacore big/LITTLE SOC)
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the benchs in order are: Unixbench: Dhrystone-2, Unixbench: Double-Precision Whetstone (x3), Nbench 2.2.3: Integer (x40), Nbench 2.2.3: Floating-Point (x100), mbw 100: Memory Bandwidth (MiB/s)
the C2 does everything the Pi 3 B (and on a lesser extend, the 3 B+ but only CPU side thanks to the +200mhz on that one ) better uSD reading, 2gb instead of 1gb RAM, computational capacity, 3D wise and 4K compatibility. (edit: oh, i forgot, and a integrated IR receiver ... which seemingly could be used with the Interscale M case as it has a honeycomb grid that doesn't seem to hinder it )
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the only thing that C2 lack now, is bluetooth (not that i really need it)
for 11$ more (although i paid it less than 30$ with a HiFi Shield + in the bundle, and it doesn't need an extra heatsink, as it come with a big one already fitted on it. )
oh well, my RPi 3 B+ will go for a friend who wanted a Libreelec KODI box for his living room SmartTV that wasn't Smart enough ...
)
) instead of 339chf (well even at 339 it has more value than a 8700/9700/9900K)
