Can Anyone recommend a android box?

[moyne4]

Hi I have a gbox q and it's great! I want to buy additional android boxes but gbox is a bit pricy now. Any powerful lower cost ones out there?

 

[psycon]

the M8 is decent and cheap. Amazon fire TV box or stick also work well if you want more of a premium box.. The AVOV boxes also work well.

 

[moyne4]

Thanks I will look at those, a lot of reviews I read suggest anything less than 2gb RAM will struggle. Would you agree ? Or is 1gb sufficient for streaming ?

 

[Lowteck]

Look at the M8S box, it has a fast processor and 8g of Ram.

 

[sat-junkie]

Look at the M8S box, it has a fast processor and 8g of Ram.

That box has an 8gig flash not 8 gigs of ram lol..check out the MXIII box has a quad core cpu @ 2GHZ and an 8 core gpu with 2 gigs of ram..the MXIII is the fastest box i messed with this year and Amazon has em for 50 bucks...it runs kodi with a full build no problems...don't listen to anyone pushing fire sticks or anything with less than 2 gigs of ram

 

[ltrain]

M8s is running a s812 processor while the mxIII is using a s802. M8s>MXIII as far as processor power and speed. I personally used to use MX4 boxes (instabox Phantom brand name) but have switched to M8s and they run Isengard real well. I agree with Sat-Junkie about the Firesticks, too limiting with not enough power nor memory

 

[psycon]

MXIII iis same thing as the M8 basically... (both do have octo core GPUs and quad core CPUs).. some box, different shell..
I would say get either the M8 or MXIII over the M8S, which only has 1gb of ram

 

[ltrain]

Hey psycon, my M8s has 2gb of ram, depends which one you buy from the vendor. Yes i would only recommend 2gb of ram but there are several units that have 1gb and run Kodi fine like an Ouya box for example. the M8 and MXIII are a step down as far as processor goes, there are things the s812 can do that a s802 and s805 cannot. I do like the s812 processors for Kodi so whether you get a M8s or MX4 my recommendations are s812 processor and 2gb of ram.

 

[moyne4]

Thanks all for the replies. 2G RAM and good processor will steer me clear of poor boxes thanks again!. Would it be worth getting ones with dual wifi 2.4/5ghz in case 3 devices stress out my broadband ?

 

[theone]

I purchased 2 M8S from the site sponsors for friends and work pretty good so I would suggest M8S from our site sponsor.

 

[Marley]

i set one up for friend nice box

 

[bigdummy]

mxIII 2g/8g , most come with a lot of stuff already installed . and has built in wireless( mine is dual band) get yourself one of those wireless mini keyboard with a mouse pad built in , make using the box way easier.(they are $20 ish) and work great.
try to get one with a power button on it , as from what ive seen , most or all do not.

for a few more $$ there are 2g/16b boxes now , don't know if the 16b will give you a long buffer time as that's the rom , so maybe more apps can be put in/on.