Post by Admin on Oct 22, 2016 14:33:31 GMT
Tronsmart Ara X5 Review
I got My Tronsmart Ara X5 from Geekbuying.com It arrived in 4 days via DHL from china to the uk
Tronsmart Ara X5 with Intel Cherry Trail CPU Z8300
The x5 the one of the first windows cherry Trail Tv box's to hit the seen And boy is it impressive Love the desine of it With the two front facing usb ports & another USB port on the rear witch is a USB3 port
The Tronsmart x5 is 64-bit CPUs, Quad cores up to 1.8Ghz frequency, and powered of Gen 8 graphics.
Tronsmart Ara x5 comes with 2GB RAM, and 32GB eMMC, built in dual-band wi-fi module and usb 3.0 support.
Highlights
14nm Cherry Trail Z8300
As the pioneer in Mini PC market, Tronsmart is the first brand to feature Ara X5 with Intel Cherry Trail CPU: Z8300. Z8300, the premier Intel Atom CPU, took the initiative to apply 14nm Soc technology, next generation micro architecture which leads the market for approximate 2 years. In the meantime, it is also equipped with 1.8G 64-bit Quad core CPU as well as Gen 8 graphics.
Pre-installed Windows 10
Tronsmart Ara X5 is pre-installed with licensed Windows 10 home, so that our users are able to enjoy the advanced functions of Windows OS directly. Moreover, the built-in Cortana in Windows 10 can turn Ara X5 into a work assistant as well as life-partner. With Windows 10 OS, you can sync game display to any devices of Windows 10 OS. What an amazing scenario! When your friends are watching football matches on TV, you can play games on Xbox and display on another PC screen.
Fanless Design
With fanless design, Ara X5 offers quiet but stable system performance, with embedded systems performing steady heat dissipation under industrial automation control. Ara X5 is marked by high performance dual-layer PCBA, characterizing of heat sink design. Even through fanless, it still fulfills desirable temperature control performance on CPU.
Acrylic Panel
Continuing on the inspirational design of Ara BJ19, Ara X5 adopts Acrylic panel and the whole mould structure, but with far more thinner, lighter figure.
AP6330
Thanks to the Broadcomm AP6330 Wi-Fi module, Ara X5 supports 802.11 a/b/g/n 2.4Ghz/5Ghz and embedded with BT 4.0 module, it is capable of cutting down power consumption and minimizing delay by 3-milliseconds, with transfer-distance over 10 meters, apart from AES-128 coding support. It is compatible with 2.0, 2.1 and 3.0, all BT standards
2G+32G eMMC
Tronsmart Ara X5 boasts 2GB DDR3 RAM, and 32GB eMMC Flash, advantageous in performance, security and reliability, ascribing to the eMMC memory, ultimately delivering a richer end-user experience.
At a Glance
The Tronsmart Ara X5 is pre-installed with licensed 64 bit Windows 10 home so no fiddling around trying to install windows 10.The UI is nice quick & is much better to find your way around that win 8 it does look like it been upgraded from windows 8 to win 10 as there was a windows.old folder but that folder was empty so dont worry about it taking up space.
The x5 looks & is very well constructed, The top of the case has a black mirror-finish with the Tronsmart logo and the power LED
The boot time on my x5 is around 30/40 seconds to complete from the button being pressed compared to my Ainol seems quite slow as my Ainol will boot in just over 12 seconds
On the front of the X5 there is two full sized USB2 ports, the power button & the audio output,On the rear we have DC in,HDMI, USB3 port,Ethernet & a micro sd card slot.
On the under side of the x5 there is plenty of ventilation holes to help with the cooling Iv had this about a week now & iv had no problem at all with over heating.
Iv found the wifi on the x5 to be strong & i have played 1080 HD video over my network with out fault, Bluetooth also works very well.
Gaming on the x5 is also very good tested beach buggy racing as i always do set the graphics to high & the game play was perfect i used my tronsmart Mars G01 game pad which connected fine first time no installing drivers ect ect,I also test Ashphalt 8 that also played fine so gaming on the x5 does look good.
Overall i would say where the x5 shines is video play back iv watched 3 films back to back with out fault,lag of stutter & no over heating on the x5 it does get warm but not hot i would say the internal heat sink is doing its job very well (so no heat sink mods required on this device)
The x5 Was supplied with a 5 volt 3amp UK ac adapter mine shows its more like 6v than 5v though reading 5.7 volts constant when tested with a multi meter.
When you first set up the x5 i would advise you get all of the windows updates out the way, This can take a wile with a few system restarts as it get updated,For some reason mine says that cortana isnt supported in the region & language iv selected so a little tweaking needed here
Edit Fixed this by installing the English voice language pack
Tronsmart Ara X5 Technical Specifications
Chipset: Intel Cherry Trail processor with Intel HD graphics (Z8300)
RAM: 2 GB DDR3
Storage: 32GB eMMC + microSD slot
Video & Audio Output: HDMI, 3.5mm Audio
Connectivity: dual band 802.1 b/g/n Wi-Fi, 10/100 Ethernet
USB: 2x USB 2.0 port, 1x USB 3.0 port
OS: Windows 10 Home (64-bit)
Tech Stuff
And for a lot more info & other user opinion's Take a look Here
Whats in the box
1x Tronsmart Ara X5 Windows PC
1x Power adapter
1x HDMI cable
1x English instruction manual
View My Basic Unboxing Video Here
I got My Tronsmart Ara X5 from Geekbuying.com It arrived in 4 days via DHL from china to the uk
Tronsmart Ara X5 with Intel Cherry Trail CPU Z8300
The x5 the one of the first windows cherry Trail Tv box's to hit the seen And boy is it impressive Love the desine of it With the two front facing usb ports & another USB port on the rear witch is a USB3 port
The Tronsmart x5 is 64-bit CPUs, Quad cores up to 1.8Ghz frequency, and powered of Gen 8 graphics.
Tronsmart Ara x5 comes with 2GB RAM, and 32GB eMMC, built in dual-band wi-fi module and usb 3.0 support.
Highlights
14nm Cherry Trail Z8300
As the pioneer in Mini PC market, Tronsmart is the first brand to feature Ara X5 with Intel Cherry Trail CPU: Z8300. Z8300, the premier Intel Atom CPU, took the initiative to apply 14nm Soc technology, next generation micro architecture which leads the market for approximate 2 years. In the meantime, it is also equipped with 1.8G 64-bit Quad core CPU as well as Gen 8 graphics.
Pre-installed Windows 10
Tronsmart Ara X5 is pre-installed with licensed Windows 10 home, so that our users are able to enjoy the advanced functions of Windows OS directly. Moreover, the built-in Cortana in Windows 10 can turn Ara X5 into a work assistant as well as life-partner. With Windows 10 OS, you can sync game display to any devices of Windows 10 OS. What an amazing scenario! When your friends are watching football matches on TV, you can play games on Xbox and display on another PC screen.
Fanless Design
With fanless design, Ara X5 offers quiet but stable system performance, with embedded systems performing steady heat dissipation under industrial automation control. Ara X5 is marked by high performance dual-layer PCBA, characterizing of heat sink design. Even through fanless, it still fulfills desirable temperature control performance on CPU.
Acrylic Panel
Continuing on the inspirational design of Ara BJ19, Ara X5 adopts Acrylic panel and the whole mould structure, but with far more thinner, lighter figure.
AP6330
Thanks to the Broadcomm AP6330 Wi-Fi module, Ara X5 supports 802.11 a/b/g/n 2.4Ghz/5Ghz and embedded with BT 4.0 module, it is capable of cutting down power consumption and minimizing delay by 3-milliseconds, with transfer-distance over 10 meters, apart from AES-128 coding support. It is compatible with 2.0, 2.1 and 3.0, all BT standards
2G+32G eMMC
Tronsmart Ara X5 boasts 2GB DDR3 RAM, and 32GB eMMC Flash, advantageous in performance, security and reliability, ascribing to the eMMC memory, ultimately delivering a richer end-user experience.
At a Glance
The Tronsmart Ara X5 is pre-installed with licensed 64 bit Windows 10 home so no fiddling around trying to install windows 10.The UI is nice quick & is much better to find your way around that win 8 it does look like it been upgraded from windows 8 to win 10 as there was a windows.old folder but that folder was empty so dont worry about it taking up space.
The x5 looks & is very well constructed, The top of the case has a black mirror-finish with the Tronsmart logo and the power LED
The boot time on my x5 is around 30/40 seconds to complete from the button being pressed compared to my Ainol seems quite slow as my Ainol will boot in just over 12 seconds
On the front of the X5 there is two full sized USB2 ports, the power button & the audio output,On the rear we have DC in,HDMI, USB3 port,Ethernet & a micro sd card slot.
On the under side of the x5 there is plenty of ventilation holes to help with the cooling Iv had this about a week now & iv had no problem at all with over heating.
Iv found the wifi on the x5 to be strong & i have played 1080 HD video over my network with out fault, Bluetooth also works very well.
Gaming on the x5 is also very good tested beach buggy racing as i always do set the graphics to high & the game play was perfect i used my tronsmart Mars G01 game pad which connected fine first time no installing drivers ect ect,I also test Ashphalt 8 that also played fine so gaming on the x5 does look good.
Overall i would say where the x5 shines is video play back iv watched 3 films back to back with out fault,lag of stutter & no over heating on the x5 it does get warm but not hot i would say the internal heat sink is doing its job very well (so no heat sink mods required on this device)
The x5 Was supplied with a 5 volt 3amp UK ac adapter mine shows its more like 6v than 5v though reading 5.7 volts constant when tested with a multi meter.
When you first set up the x5 i would advise you get all of the windows updates out the way, This can take a wile with a few system restarts as it get updated,For some reason mine says that cortana isnt supported in the region & language iv selected so a little tweaking needed here
Edit Fixed this by installing the English voice language pack
Tronsmart Ara X5 Technical Specifications
Chipset: Intel Cherry Trail processor with Intel HD graphics (Z8300)
RAM: 2 GB DDR3
Storage: 32GB eMMC + microSD slot
Video & Audio Output: HDMI, 3.5mm Audio
Connectivity: dual band 802.1 b/g/n Wi-Fi, 10/100 Ethernet
USB: 2x USB 2.0 port, 1x USB 3.0 port
OS: Windows 10 Home (64-bit)
Tech Stuff
And for a lot more info & other user opinion's Take a look Here
Whats in the box
1x Tronsmart Ara X5 Windows PC
1x Power adapter
1x HDMI cable
1x English instruction manual
View My Basic Unboxing Video Here