This all-metal box is being branded by many companies, but near as we can tell, they are all identical, and so service and price should be your deciding factors.
Luckily, the performance of this box is absolutely stellar and the price on Amazon is right in the sweet spot.
The S912 System on a Chip is the evolution of the Amlogic standard into the octo-core realm. You’re looking at about a 30% performance increase over the 905 and 905X chips and, paired with the new T820 graphics behemoth, you’ll have headroom galore for gaming, and video is a breeze. Like most S912 boxes, this one has trouble with 10-bit 4K files, but other than that it will play anything you throw at it.
The box utilizes 2gb of DDR3 RAM. It has 2 USB ports and a micro SD card slot. Running Android 6.0 makes it possible to adopt the SD card as internal storage to expand the already generous 16gb. Even heavy Kodi builds with tons of widgets run like a dream. My usual test games of Riptide GP: Renegades and Asphalt 8 run like butter with no stutters or frame drops.
Definitely download the update the box will prompt you for, as it adds root access and a more remote control friendly version of YouTube.
The only remaining glitch is that some apps from the Play Store (I’m looking at you, Spotify) will force the box into portrait mode. This is easily rectified by downloading the “set orientation” app from the Play Store and setting it to “landscape”.
You owe it to yourself to upgrade to the new generation of processors, and I can’t think of a better, more cost-effective way of doing it than the Mifanstech MXQ Plus.
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