Orange Pi 5 Plus 8G with 64GB eMMC Module RK3588 8 Core 64 Bit Single Board Computer, 2.4GHz Frequency Open Source Board Run Orange Pi OS,Android,Debian,Ubuntu (Pi 5 Plus 8G+64GB eMMC+TC Supply)

purchased to use as a home router to at&t internet. i have the 2gig plan so i wanted something that could do nat and firewall at 2.5gbe speeds. it turns out there are slow medium and fast cores and the slow cores (0-3) could only manage a little bit over 1gbps whereas the fastest cores (6 and 7) were able to max out the nics (speedtest.net download at 2300mbps).(in case you are wondering, i like to run open source software as my firewall).

I've been running my OPi5+ for a while now and must say this is the first non-Raspberry pi I've had good luck with. With the RK3588 gaining main line kernel support, I only expect things to get better. I'm running Home Assistant, Plex, File Server, etc on this thing and it only averages ~2-3% CPU usage. There are a good number of 3rd party OS's with great support that make this another great buy. I have not second guessed my decision to upgrade from my Raspberry Pi 4 one second. The speed increase from just the M.2 drive is incredible! Did you already buy yours? You should!

As a possible replacement for a Microsoft PC. And right now it looks real good.