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Tronsmart Ara X5 Plus Windows 10 TV Box Cherry Trail Z8300 Quad Core 1.8G Gen 8 Graphics GPU 2G/32G 2.4Ghz/5Ghz LAN HDMI H.265 XBMC BT4.0 USB3.0

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Highlights

14nm Cherry Trail Z8300

As the pioneer in Mini PC market, Tronsmart is the first brand to feature Ara X5 Plus with Intel Cherry Trail CPU: Z8300. Z8300, the premier Intel Atom CPU, took the initiative to apply 14nm Soc technology, next generation micro architecture which leads the market for approximate 2 years. In the meantime, it is also equipped with 1.8G 64-bit Quad core CPU as well as Gen 8 graphics.

Pre-installed Windows 10

Tronsmart Ara X5 Plus is pre-installed with licensed Windows 10 home, so that our users are able to enjoy the advanced functions of Windows OS directly. Moreover, the built-in Cortana in Windows 10 can turn Ara X5 into a work assistant as well as life-partner. With Windows 10 OS, you can sync game display to any devices of Windows 10 OS. What an amazing scenario! When your friends are watching football matches on TV, you can play games on Xbox and display on another PC screen.

Fanless Design

With fanless design, Ara X5 Plus offers quiet but stable system performance, with embedded systems performing steady heat dissipation under industrial automation control. Ara X5 is marked by high performance dual-layer PCBA, characterizing of heat sink design. Even through fanless, it still fulfills desirable temperature control performance on CPU.

Acrylic Panel

Continuing on the inspirational design of Ara BJ19, Ara X5 Plus adopts Acrylic panel and the whole mould structure, but with far more thinner, lighter figure.

Intel 3160

Thanks to the Intel 3160 Wi-Fi module, Ara X5 Plus supports 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac  2.4Ghz/5Ghz and embedded with BT 4.0 module, it is capable of cutting down power consumption and minimizing delay by 3-milliseconds, with transfer-distance over 10 meters, apart from AES-128 coding support. It is compatible with 2.0, 2.1 and 3.0, all BT standards

2G+32G eMMC

Tronsmart Ara X5 Plus boasts 2GB DDR3 RAM, and 32GB eMMC Flash, advantageous in performance, security and reliability, ascribing to the eMMC memory, ultimately delivering a richer end-user experience.
Ara X5 Plus ultilizes eMMC5.0 technology, with read&write speed doubles that of the eMMC4.5 

Installing Openelec 17.0 on Tronsmart ara x5 plus

We got great news, Tronsmart and their developers already fixed HDMI Audio Output under Linux kernel 4.4/4.5 and released Openelec. Now we can enjoy both Windows/Linux on Ara X5 Plus.

HDMI Audio Output under Linux fixed on Tronsmart Ara X5 Plus

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Under our testing,  Audio output works great via HMDI cable and speaker jack(system->setting-system->audio output->audio output devices, choose USB Audio device)

Now Openelec can let Ara X5 Plus as great media player. We checked 10bit, 4K@H.265 ,3D ISO, Blueray ISO, AC3/DTS 5.1 pass through etc, all works amazing. And we check WiFi/Ethernet works ok, you can enjoy Add-ons from Kodi too.

Here is the Openelec download link.

Click Here to download

Following the instruction to install.

http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php/HOW-TO:Installing_OpenELEC/Writing_The_Disk_Image#tab=Windows

 Some tips with instruction of installing openelec.

1. Format a USB(should more than 2GB) to FAT 32,  then use Win32Diskimager to make booting USB.

2. After make booting USB and Insert it to USB3.0 of X5 Plus, power on and fast press F7 on keyboard, now enter into UFEI system.

3. Choose the name of your USB and press enter key on keyboard, Now you can install openelec step by step as instructions of system.

4. Tronsmart information and windows key are pre-write in BIOS chips, so you flash back to Windows system directly, and not lost BIOS, drivers, Keys.

Via:geekbuying blog