A5X MAX Android 9.0 TV Box 4K 4GB/32GB Design, Hardware, Review (only $45.49! with coupon)

Officially, the A5X MAX is the first and cheapest Android TvBox that comes with 4gb RAM, we have acknowledged that 2gb RAM was the standard and 3gb was high end, but this news just made a breakthrough in entertainment systems, now this TvBox have the same specs like a PC for just a fraction of a barebone computer price. Yes, out of the box the storage is limited, but you can add and external drive using the fast USB connection.

Design

In order to keep a low price tag, the is made from black ABS plastic with piano finish. With sharp edges, this tvBox have all the ports you need, for one side you have access to SD card reader and USB ports (one of them is USB 3.0), in the back there’s another USB, SPDIF port, HDMI, LAN and power. At front there’s a IR sensor.

In the box you will find the A5X, power adapter, HDMI cable and a IR remote control.

Hardware

A5X comes fully loaded with a QuadCore SoC from Rockchip, RK3328 running @1.5Ghz, GPU from Mali-450mp2 with enough power to decode H.265 and VP9 up to 4K@60fps, also supports HDR videos. Then is the RAM, this lithe device sports the first 4gb RAM DDR3 in a Android TvBox, paired with 16gb eMMC of user memory.

For network, Wi-Fi b/g/N with internal antenna, Bluetooth 4.0 and LAN 100mbit/s. As connectivity we have a USB 3.0 port, 3 USB 2.0, SPDIF audio output, SD card reader, analog audio and video output and an HDMI 2.0a port that support UHD bandwidth.

Review

As we can see Rockchip with its new SoC RK3328 offers us an interesting product in the low-priced TV-Box range, a product has interesting additions such as the USB 3.0 connector it incorporates and the H.265, VP9 video support with 10bit color and HDR. Also we have the Android 7.1.1 system, as standard this year, which gives us a certain margin of life in the long term.

Also, Kodi 17.3 is preloaded, this assure a great entertainment system out of the box and the 4gb of RAM will give us peace of mind that we can squeeze this little gizmo, running lot of apps at the same time without lag or whatsoever, so you can download files, open some social media apps in the background and playing Netflix without notice any low system performance.

Conclusion

We are sure that A5X Max is the first Android TvBox with PC Grade Specs, even you can consider it as a replacement for you desktop computer, if you want to. Grab the first 4gb RAM TvBox at Geekbuying for only $48.99 (Yes, is that cheap!) just use this coupon code: BRQCVCAO to get that rockbottom price.

Update on March 8, 2019