[Device Reviews and Information] o-I-c:
Well let's add a little colour into our lives with the Q box

Amlogic S905 2/16 GB 2.5/5 GHZ WI-FI Optical, 2 x usb2 Sd card slot and AV Out.

Thanks to Geekbuying and DHL for super fast shipping to Australia

What we have here is a sharp looking Media Player

With this groovy (haters will hate) Light display around the edge.

Thinking, hope we can organise this to flash and pulse with music to be annoying.

Above without the lid for the full effect.

But alas all it does it cycle 3 colours so far, devastated not.

No Power button

Let's have a look and see what we have.

Complete Unit, Flash looking Remote, AU Power Plug (Yaa) and HDMI cable

Inside, this would have to be the most populated PCB I have seen in awhile

More on the bottom than the top or is it the other way around.

Note : Reset button behind the AV Port.

You can also see in the above picture of the Optics closer, 2 leds bit of clear solid plasticy thing, easy to remove.

Too reduce the glow a little I removing the tube, there is also a clear bezel window around the edge lets the light out.

You can also remove this to allow some air circulation as it does get warm/hot and as it's a sealed with the exception of ports etc, not many places for the heat to get out. None.

WIFI Chip

Here we have the Ram I recall using this make of ram years ok...unsure of its correct make.

I use to call it Superman Ram, not sure if it can leap building in a single bound, or faster than a speeding bullet. but it appears ok at the present.

Switch on.....

One of the most impressive Boot up logo I have seen in awhile something akin to a Spielberg Movie.

https://youtu.be/UOR7JFuDyVM

Colourful GUI different, running Android 5.1

Testing

Easy power on, setup no hassles. Connecting to WIFI, 5ghz, Google straight in few updates done and easy.

Android 5.1 interface nothing different found as yet

Downloaded the usual 10 or so regular apps I use for testing, speed good and no stalling while installing smooth

WIFI ok considering it's a sticky tape antenna about 4 meters from router good strength.

Heat

Idle 55c doing stuff up to 75c using CPU Temp Pure from Google Play

Heat seeking device is showing 10C less on the PCB than the actual software, so it's still a hotty but easy fix I feel.

A bit of thick thermal pad between heatsink on cpu and metal weight plate in the base will help the cause I believe,

and it did by 20c at idle. the distance was a little too far so i raised the Base plate closer to heatsink with some packing.

As you can see by Temperature, top middle of screen

Above was yesterday on the bench and open doing tests

Below a few minutes ok Mod done and unit sealed.

As I have been advised Holes are very expensive to buy still.

Some scores for those that like the number and looking OK

More Detail of the Geekbench score can be seen: http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/6086876

That's all the basic testing for the minute, I dare say it will compare to most of the other S905 Media Players about.

Looks are good if you need a little colour in your life it's not that distracting really, all a bit of fun.

Performance is looking good at this stage no weird stuff happening as yet, time will tell

Bit of a mod has reduce the heat by 20c and that has to be good, even tho it would be ok running as it was.

More to come with Kodi and other stuff as it happens.

Unit does not have root as it comes but will what happens with EZ root etc a little later.

Cheers

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