Welcome viewers to another TV box stop presentation.
Today I'm featuring a new mini PC, which is also classified as a 4K movie home theater,
slash TV box; This box, is the Beelink AP42, windows 10 mini PC and 4K TV box.
Usually, I only feature Android TV boxes on my site, so in today's video, I'll demonstrate
how this windows mini PC can also be used as a TV box.
This video is also for hardware enthusiasts who love to do benchmarks on various mobile
devices.
This video may surprise you, because there's an Intel Pentium CPU inside.
So sit tight, I'll be back in a moment.
Welcome back.
So here we have this blue box that the device comes in; as you can see on each side of the
box there's an intel sticker placed on every side.
If we look here, you can see that the model is the AP42.
The CPU, is an Intel Pentium N4200 CPU, running up to 1.1GHz.
The GPU, is the Intel HD graphics 505 GPU, It has 4GB of DDR3 RAM, and a 57.5GB of internal
storage; It has Ethernet LAN connection with a speed of 1000 Mbps.
It has 802.11 dual band 2.4 plus 5.8GHz WiFi, and Bluetooth 4.0.
It uses a 12 Volts 1.5 amp power adapter, and it runs on windows 10 operating system.
So it's time to unpack the contents of this box.
So in the box, here we have the unit itself.
You get two HDMI cables.
A mounting bracket and screws.
A power adapter,
And a users guide.
Let's examine the box.
To the back, you have 1 HDMI port, a USB 3.0 Port, you have 1 RJ45 Ethernet LAN port, there's
1 earphone jack, a power button, and a reset button.
To the side, you have 2 more USB 3.0 ports, an an SD card slot.
To the other side, you have an external antenna.
To the front, there's an LED power light indicator.
At the bottom, you have four rubber studs, and there are ventilation holes at the bottom
and sides.
The box is made of solid metal with the Beelink logo clearly displayed at the top.
The box doesn't come with a remote control as it is not a TV box, but actually a mini
PC, so you can use just about any regular keyboard and mouse to navigate this box, or
even a Bluetooth air mouse will work.
So I'm using a wireless air mouse and a touch-pad keyboard for this demonstration.
So I'll now connect this box to my TV, an when I return, we'll look at some system an
hardware information, then run some bench marks to see how it scores.
So I'm back, and I've connected all my peripherals, and it's now time to power-up this box.
As I startup the box, it shows the Beelink animation and logo as it loads, and then you
are presented with this set up screen.
On this screen, here you're required to enter your country and language, an your windows
registration code, However, you don't have to enter any key in the provided field, so
just click skip this step.
then you're required to accept the license agreement, and fill out the other required
information.
You're then presented with a clean windows 10 operating system with no programs installed
whatsoever.
So prior to this video, I installed some system and benchmarking programs, and a video game
to test this boxes performance.
I don't think there's the need to explain to anyone about how to use windows, so I'll
just go straight into some system and hardware information.
For this I'm running the AIDA64 system and hardware information program.
If we look under the system section, here it shows that the Manufacturer is Bee link,
and the product name is the AP42. and below here it shows the total internal storage capacity,
and the remaining free internal storage.
Under the CPU section, it shows that the CPU model is the Intel Pentium N4200, code name
Apollo lake, running up to 1.1GHz.
Below here it shows that the CPU has 4 logical processor cores running on a 64Bit instruction
set.
Under the display section, it shows that the GPU is the Intel HD graphics GPU with 128GB
of DDR3 RAM, and it has 2GB of shared system memory.
Under the network section, here it shows that I'm connected to my 5.8GHz WiFi band, and
below here it shows the signal strength, data rate speed, and the encryption type.
Under the windows section, it shows that you're running on windows 10 operating system, and
below here it shows the Kernel Architecture is 64bit X86.
And that's it for hardware and system information.
First, I'll test some memory read and write speeds.
And the results show that this box has a RAM copy speed of 5834 Mbps.
However, during the test, the internal storage test ended prematurely, because the readings
was over the maximum range of the software, so it got a read speed of 588 Mbps and over,
and a write speed of 184 Mbps and over.
I have seen other boxes clock over 9000 Mbps on DDR4 memory, like in the recent Yundoo
TV box that I recently reviewed on my channel.
However, the internal memory read and write speeds on this mini PC, are the highest scores
I've ever seen on a TV box device.
And that's it for the memory test.
I'll now perform a speed test on both the 2.4 an 5.8 WiFi bands.
After a total of 6 tests on each band, these are the results.
As you can see I got some good download and upload speeds on my 30MB internet connection.
I now turn to the Antutu benchmark.
I always like to explain a little bit about these benchmarks for those new to TV boxes,
so that everyone would have some sort of idea about what is happening in these various tests.
The Antutu benchmark, is a software that performs a comprehensive test on a Windows device.
It performs a test on your 3D graphics, memory performance, CPU multi treading and multitasking
capability, and it also performs a test on user experience performance.
Upon completion, the Beelink AP42 got an Antutu score of 132004.
Well then, I think the Beelink AP42 just hit every Android TV box Antutu score out of the
park.
If this is the case, remember I told you that there is an Intel CPU inside, so I wonder
how it will do in the Geek binch 4 score.
This software performs a test on the boxes CPU, it puts the boxes CPU to task by running
a series of timed processes.
The box then gets a score based on how long it takes to complete each task.
When all tests were completed, the Beelink AP42 got a Geek bench 4 score of 1525 single-core,
and 3951 multi core.
Again, these scores are way above what I'm accustom to.
Well, that leaves only one more benchmark, which is a GPU test.
For this test, I'm running the Ice storm extreme GPU benchmarking software, part of the 3D
mark GPU benchmarking package.
This app focuses on your device's GPU performance, if you don't understand what that is, its
simply the hardware responsible for your 3D graphics, your 4K display, and your beautiful
colors on the box.
The app measures GPU performance while processing lots of pixels and vertices, and it also performs
a physics test that measures high graphics detail rendering performance.
When this test was completed, the Beelink AP42 got an ice storm extreme score of 17191.
In this Advanced 3D mark software package there are various benchmarks to suit the power
of your device, so I chose to use the Ice storm extreme benchmark, because it was the
closest benchmark to compare to Android TV boxes to show the difference in scores.
So with all these great benchmark scores let's put it to the test and run some 4K videos.
From what I saw I'm really impressed with the 4K playback, and yes I know, the jellyfish
video didn't play as I thought it would, but it came pretty darn close didn't it.
So I gave it one more try using the windows movie and TV player.
It played a little better, but not 100% smooth.
And that's all for kodi.
For my final demonstration, I'm running a couple of games I installed from the windows
store, So let's take in a few minutes of game-play.
Well then, so those games ran pretty well without any issues.
and the graphics were of a high quality.
Keep in mind that this is a mini PC and not a full fledge desktop gaming PC, so it will
have its limits in which PC games it can play, as windows games demand way more resources
than Android games.
So in conclusion, the box out scores most Android TV boxes double time, and you can
look forward for more mini PCs in the future.
However, despite its outstanding scores it does have its issues, one of which is heat.
During game-play, I noticed that the box got really hot; so adequate ventilation is needed.
Another downside, is that the CPU speed is set at 1.1GHz which I find is a bit low, so
I researched this CPU, and I found that it can go as high as 2.5GHz, but I don't thing
this box can handle the heat at that frequency.
And the thing that I didn't like the most was that they should have included an air
mouse in the purchase.
There was so much more I could have shown in this video but for the sake of time, I
had to select only the key points of interest for my viewers.
So I have come to the end of my review of the Beelink AP42, windows 10 mini PC and 4K
TV box.
So if you are interested in this device, a link was placed in the description area below
this video, and links can also be found on the website, so be sure to check that out.
And be sure to check for discount coupons related to this device.
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