Radxa Orion O6 brings Arm to the midrange PC (with caveats)
Published on: 2025-07-15 13:16:05
...with caveats.
TL;DR
The Radxa Orion O6 is an Arm ITX motherboard with up to 12 cores, 64 GB of RAM, and Armv9.2 support, starting just over $200 USD
The board has a SystemReady SR-certified BIOS, which allows running Windows on Arm and many Linux arm64 ISOs unaltered
The firmware still has many quirks, enough that I wouldn't recommend it if you don't enjoy tinkering with drivers (remember how I said to temper your expectations in February?)
Prices for those in the US (like me) just tripled due to import tariffs (ordering the 32 GB model went from $400 to $1500).
The rest of this post is a version of today's video, modified to suit the blog. You can watch the video version below:
Radxa Orion O6
I pre-ordered the $300 32GB 'AI kit' the day the Orion O6 was announced. And... it never arrived. I'll discuss why at the end of the post, but you may wonder: if it never arrived, how did you review it?
Well, Radxa sent me a 16 gig version of board for testing and review. I always dis
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