I own both the H96 Max X3 and the X96 Air (wow, the naming of these boxes is just ridiculous …). Bother work fine, however both suffer from the same increased temp issue. However, with a couple of holes drilled into the case and a 4-5 mm thick, 5x5 cm thermal pad the temp can be managed to a ~50 deg C level. All really easy to do, please see the thermal mod thread for inspiration (btw, I think some of the huge heat sinks and fans are too much, but who am I to judge ).
Fully agree that you get what you pay for, if you go cheap on the box you need to do some heat engineering.
I am considering the Tanix TX3. The 4gb/32 is just under £30 and has 2.4g/5g WiFi and Bluetooth, but the biggest draw for me is the case size and ventilation as i think it will make modification easier. There is a thread here with some info on this box and i appears to run CoreElec ok.
Also a review here showing the box opened and the space inside to upgrade the heatsinks.
A95X F3 currently does not have a bluetooth driver, but AdamG is on it.
I just ran a test. In my completely uncontrolled environment, at full cpu load it hit 70C, so with some gpu loading, it will certainly throttle.
I’ll crack it open and see how bad the heatsink is. I’ll post results in the thermal mods thread.
If you don’t mind the look, on the X96 Max Plus you can easily cut out all the drilled areas at the bottom and make some holes on the top in the heatsink area, so a fairly efficient natural air circulation will form and not you will have problems with overheating. Probably on the X96 Air, but I don’t know what the case looks like except from the pictures, I didn’t have this box in my hand.
If you do not want to affect the case, a 10 cm and 12V fan powered by a USB port, fastened with elastic. I use it like this and the temperature doesn’t even reach 50 degrees.
Since the DRAM and eMMC signals are all brought out through the package, performance should be the same as if they were in separate packages and the PCB can be smaller
Members can shop where they like for what they like.
If you need a recommendation from where a member got a box you put up
Private Message them. @linuxlou You might want to check such suspect low prices on FleaBay.
The Guy selling those has only 8 seller feedback reviews @100%
Now look at the buyers and see their feedback scores.
First 5 that gave him feedback have 0 feedback scores.
The other 3 have 1 feedback received.
Yeah tongue is firmly in cheek. Can you imagine being asked to produce and ship a media player with recent chipset half way around the world for £12 .Where would you start cutting corners,I would be looking for £12 just to draw a picture of one
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