Welcome viewers, today on TV box stop I bring to you a new Windows 10 mini PC stick
called the T6 Pro, featuring 6GB of LP DDR4 RAM, 128 GB of internal storage,
and running on a quad core Intel Gemini Lake J4125 CPU. There is also a 4GB 32GB model.
This is one of the few Mini PC sticks that I have seen to incorporate a
thermal controlled built-in cooling fan. So in this video we’ll take a look at its hardware
performance under Windows, then I’ll attempt to install FydeOS and see if I can convert this mini
PC stick into an Android TV stick. So stay tuned that’s up next.
So I’m back. And in the box
you have the T6 Pro mini PC stick itself. You get one HDMI female to male extension cable.
You get a 12V 2A DC power adapter. And a user manual.
Now a quick look at its design and ports. Its body is made of plastic with a
male HDMI connector to the top. At the opposite end you have a gigabit
ethernet LAN port with some cooling vents. Along the side you have two USB 3.0 ports,
a power button, the DC power input Jack, and another cooling vent.
On the opposite side you have some more cooling vents.
At the front you have some more vents, and through the mesh you can see and LED power light.
If you listen closely you can hear the thermal controlled built-in cooling fan
And to the back you just have a honeycomb mesh.
So I’ll now connect this to my 4K TV and capture card and continue.
So I’m back, and when you start for the first time you will have the complete the usual
Windows startup wizard only once, then you are taken to the Windows desktop.
On its basic system information page, it shows that the processor has a base clock speed of
2.0 GHz, it has 6 GB of RAM, it’s a 64 bit operating system, and your Windows is activated.
Under advanced system and hardware information,
it shows that you have a boost clock speed of 2.6 GHz,
it’s running on the tri-core UHD 600 GPU. The internal system disc is a SanDisk DA 4128
and this is the remainder after the Windows installation.
The Wi-Fi adapter is the Realtek 8821CU, and it also shows that it has Bluetooth support.
These specs resulted in a PC Mark 10 benchmark of 1639.
In the Geekbench 5 CPU benchmark, 451 single core and 1496 multicore.
It’s UHD 600 graphics GPU got a score of 15,161 in the ice storm extreme, 3224 in the cloud
gate a test, and 143 in the time spy test. It has a RAM copy speed of 7797 Mbps.
A read speed of 252 Mbps and a write speed of 267 on its system disc.
You have maximum bandwidth on the 5GHz Wi-Fi band and on the LAN port,
and 36% achievable on the 2.4 GHz band.
These benchmarks placed it at position number three among the mini PCs have reviewed thus far.
You can view this chart on my website using the link in the description below this video.
For entertainment you can install the Netflix and Amazon prime video apps from the Microsoft store,
or you can view them in any browser. You can also manually install the Kodi
media player via download, or you can install the latest matrix version from the Microsoft store.
You can watch YouTube in as high as 4K 2160p quality on the chrome browser.
And you can connect any a game controller,
wired or via Bluetooth and play some light windows games.
So that’s all for its Windows operating system, and as mentioned at the beginning of
the video I would now attempt to install FydeOS. In the absence of internal expandable storage,
I attempted to install FydeOS on an external SSD via USB.
The process was successful and it had to be done using a USB hub
as there aren’t enough USB ports to facilitate the installation flash-drive,
the external hard drive itself, and at the same time use a mouse and keyboard in the process.
So connecting a USB hub to one of the USB ports on the stick made this process possible.
I won’t get into the process of installing FydeOS as that was already covered in a previous video.
A link to that can be found in the description below.
When you install FydeOS using a flash drive to install to another flash drive,
or external hard drive you are faced with one limitation, and that is FydeOS will allow you
to activate the android subsystem, but it will not allow you to install Open Gapps to a USB device.
It can only be done on a SATA internal hard drive or SSD.
But this doesn’t prevent you from installing apps as usual, because all this does is
deprive you of the Google play store. So with the use of Aptoide or APKpure
you can still install all your apps as usual and run them with full permissions.
And as I’ve already covered in the FydeOS tutorial video, you can root the system if you so choose.
In the FydeOS tutorial video you will have seen
that the version was 11.4 and it was in beta version.
When I installed FydeOS on this occasion I was prompted by the system that it has been updated
to version 12.0, and to access the update you have two now pay a one-time fee of $1.59.
So I paid for the update and the system restarted and automatically installed version 12.0.
So this is the new login screen of version 12.0 and it comes with a new wallpaper which
you can change of course. In the settings area you
can now see that it says version 12.0. One of the major changes is that you can
now set the display refresh rate to 60Hz, whereas in the previous version it was limited to 30Hz.
I also noticed that my panda key mapping apps don’t crash when I attempted to open them,
but on this device, where you don’t have access to your Google play services the apps won’t activate,
even with the panda manual activator. So I’ll leave that for another device,
that has expandable internal storage. This new operating system still does
not have Dolby or DTS support, and it still cannot play 4K HDR videos.
1080p videos play just fine You do however have Vulcan support.
So I’ll now quickly browse through its benchmarks on the FydeOS.
So with FydeOS running on the T6 Pro you have a CPU clock speed of 2.7 GHz which is its boost
clock speed, you have Google wide vine level III with no HDCP protection, and as I said
you can root the system if you so choose. A major issue under FydeOS, and also under
android x86, is that you don’t have Wi-Fi support. You only have an Internet connection via the LAN
port, so take note of that if you intend to use FydeOS or android x86 on this device.
Bluetooth on the other hand works perfectly, and I was able to connect my Bluetooth gamepad.
So to close out this demonstration, I will just play some android games
to demonstrate its graphics rendering performance and to test for overheating.
So after testing just one game, I discovered
that gaming is merely impossible without your Google play services
that is required by most android games. However the graphics rendering is very
good under FydeOS and the internal cooling fan kept temperatures well within range.
So in summary, I like the performance of the T6 Pro under Windows and under FydeOS.
I like that it has an internal cooling fan to keep things cool under any activity,
and that its CPU and GPU as enough power to handle any major task.
I would have liked to show the latest Android 11 x86 but after numerous
attempts I couldn’t get any audio via HDMI. I did however get audio under TOS Anthony
Android TV OS x86 version. However that version it’s limited to 1080p.
And with that said I have come to the end of my review.
Thanks goes out the SZBOX for sending this PC stick for today’s review
and if you would like to get your hands on it at the lowest price online, it’s
available on their Amazon and AliExpress stores. See the links in the description below this video.
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