I recently showed off the Z66X Android TV box in a previous video
it was my "Awesome tech gadgets for under $30", but I really wanted to show off what this box can actually do because
Under $30 it's pretty impressive
So, stick around to find out more. It's TechWizTime
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In this video I'm gonna go into a little bit more depth with the Z66 X Android TV box
So you can see there's the box itself
But what else is inside? You get a remote control of course, the HDMI cable and a 5 volt 2 amp power supply
Ah, you also get a user manual as well, but I don't know who uses those anymore
Just plug and play and forget about it
Ok so let's talk about specs. We've got a quad-core 1.5. Gigahertz CPU inside with a Mali 450 GPU
There's 2 gigabytes of RAM and 16 gigabytes of storage the RAM is only a DDR3 speed though
There's no Bluetooth onboard so if that's a must-have then that's a killer for this one
Wi-Fi comes in at 2.4 Gigahertz
And the Ethernet is at 100 megabit
Interestingly though, this box is rooted, and it's running Android 7.1
And the other interesting thing is that this box actually comes in at under $30
So let's have a look at the actual ports on this itself
So on this side here we've got the micro SD Card slot and two USB 2.0 ports
The other side has nothing the front has nothing as well
But on the rear we've got an SPDIF port a LAN port a three and a half mil headphone jack port
HDMI and five volt power, so with specs and ports at of let's have a look at some benchmarks
In a1SDBench
We're looking at internal read speeds
Of 42 megabytes per second and internal write speeds of 12 megabytes per second so no winners there
The micro SD card read speed comes in at 17 megabytes per second and the SD card write speed comes in at
13 megabytes per second
The RAM speed only comes in at 1504 megabytes per second though
So not that impressive on in terms of the actual write and read speeds there, but
Still, it's capable
Next up I test the Wi-Fi and the LAN speeds using Speedtest
So the Wi-Fi
Download speed is of 31 megabits per second whereas the upload speed is 30 megabits per second
When it comes to testing the LAN though we see we get a 90 megabit per second download rate and
And an upload rate of 37 megabits per second, so not too bad if you're connected to a wired network
Next up I test the n22 benchmark tool
And we get an overall score
Of 3491 with a 3d score of 1488, a UX score of 11778, a CPU score of 12769
And a RAM score of 4456
Next up with Geekbench we get a single core score of 401
And a multi-core score of 1090
So looking over at 3dMark now the Slingshot test wouldn't work at all due to the GPU that it's got on board, so, we tested out some Ice Storm
And the basic Ice Storm score came in at 3880, whereas Ice Storm extreme came in at 2410
So again nothing really impressive there
Under streaming and media now, so, out of the box Netflix did work
And YouTube was maxed out at a 4k file at 720p resolution
Next up we look at Kodi and we do the Big Buck Bunny test
The 30 frames per second file worked perfectly fine, which is not too bad
But the 60 frames per second file didn't have a chance
Again we test out the jelly-fish file and these files come in at 55, 140, 200 and 400 megabits per second and the only one that would play, unfortunately, was the 55 megabits per second file
So the CPU just can't handle that unfortunately
All right so we're streaming in all that out of the way next up we test out some gaming, now
Generally, Android gaming is going to be fine
But I like to have a look at emulation and see what emulators actually work on this
So the first one up is the PSP emulator PPSSPP
And we can see Power Stone is only getting between 25 and 35 frames per second, so, not that great overall
And same with God of War, we're only getting 5 to 10 frames per second here, so
PSP gaming is probably out
Up next though is the Dreamcast emulator Raycast
And testing out Sonic Adventure 2
We see we're only getting 25 to 30 frames per second out of a max of 60 frames per second, so
A little bit slow
But next up we test out Shenmue and we're only getting 20 to 30 frames per second here, so
Still playable, but there are gonna be slowdowns
And lastly we've got the fighting game Soul Calibur and again here we're only getting 30 to 35 frames for second, so
It's not getting to that full 60 Frames-per-second
And lastly I test our PlayStation emulation with FPS I
Now this is where it gets interesting, it'll play Final Fantasy 7 at the full 60 frames per second
So by the looks of it this will play PlayStation 1 and lower
Probably not N64 though because that struggles on even the higher end devices
Metal Gear Solid though comes in at 50 to 60 frames per second so again completely playable
And even more impressive, Tekken 3, which struggles on some devices. We're seeing here 45 to 55 frames per second
Which is in the full 60 frames per second, but still
Quite playable
So after all that for a box that is less than $30
I'm pretty impressed, like if you're just looking at some low-end emulation
It's gonna be cheaper than a Raspberry Pi
And it's gonna be all in one with a remote
So you can enjoy all those classics on the PlayStation, Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, the Megadrive
Anything you can throw at it, that's less than a Playstation should work on this machine
So who is this device really for, well it's not really for the high-end tech gadget lover like the Nvidia shield TV box
Gets my big stamp of approval
And I would recommend that to anyone that can afford 199 dollars
But who this is for it's for that person that's, you know, it doesn't have a lot of money, they want to get into, say, retro gaming and so forth
Or it's for your mom or dad who doesn't, you know, doesn't understand technology that much, but
Wants to have something to upgrade their normal TV to a little bit more of a smarter TV
Plus it comes with the benefit of having Android 7, so
Win-win
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