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last year and one of my very early on videos I did a review on the as Rafi box and much to my delight it was in bling-bling gold it advertised support for 4k playback but I found this was really only under very very specific conditions so it was a little bit of a letdown there was a very affordable unit so I couldn't complain too much well now the B box and the little B that was declaring to the world that it's a Piercy your back and like Alf better than ever the new model is called the B box s and unlike my brand-new Porsche that I don't have the s actually stands for skylake and my unit is indeed a much more appealing black colorway this time but for those that were loving the pimp version you can still get in gold silver or white the B box S is available in two configurations one featuring a core i3 and then the one I've got here are featuring the dual core Core i5 6200 you which I'm expecting to do plenty in this cool little device there's been other notable improvements over the previous feed box and three thousand two and now supports ddr4 memory USB 3.1 HDMI 2.0 DisplayPort 1.4 there's even a pcie 3.0 x 4 m2 slot both configurations come as bare bone units and aside from the built-in CPU you'll be required to find your own supporting hardware including memory storage and of course any accompanying software aside from the unit itself in the package you get a remote control the power adapter a visa bracket and of course the standard manuals and warranty documents let's have a quick look around the device now the enclosure is a glossy black with rounded edges and at the front we find an audio jack USB 3.0 port and USB type-c port which I'm very happy to see lastly we have the infrared receiver that pairs the included little black remote control moving up to the top of the unit we find some round ended lines that break another wise plane design along with subtle power button in the front left corner that's illuminated by a blue LED at the back of the B box s we of course find the main i/o panel and here there's a DC input not one but two HDMI ports a DisplayPort output 2 USB 3 ports a Gigabit LAN port and a Kensington lock there's a little ventilation here too as well as underneath the unit where you'll also find some rubber feet and the screws that need to be to access the interior which you'll need to do to install your selector components the included core i5 6200 u processor is a dual core as mentioned running at 2.3 gigahertz with a turbo boost frequency of 2.8 gigahertz and a 3 megabyte l3 cache yes cash Americans sue me you'll also be getting the relatively unimpressive Intel HD graphics 5 20s so minesweeper at least will run flawlessly at 60fps impressively though the processor is just a 15 watt part so you can expect the total system draw the B box s to be very low as mentioned ddr4 memory is now supported and with the 2's o DIMM slots you can cram it up to 32 gigabytes if you want to though ADA 16 is probably going to be the typical config for B box users in terms of storage any two and a half inch drive can be installed and then users also have the option for connecting an nvme m2 SSD with the full 32 gigabit per second bandwidth available lastly there's an additional m2 slot though this one features a pre-installed Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0 module that supports wireless AC the B box s scored 2884 points in the PC mark 8 home test which is very respectable for a mini PC of this caliber in comparison AMD's desktop a10 7800 apu was only slightly faster with 2,933 points moving to the creative test we see that the B box S pulls further ahead of the original B box and ECS live--i X when compared to the APU the B box S was again slightly behind next up we tested the Microsoft Office performance using PC market and for this kind of productivity work the B box s is more than twice as quick as the original B box while it isn't a great deal slower than a fully fledged AMD quad-core apu the B box s and it's embedded Core i5 6200 u processor managed to outscore the AMD a10 7800 in the Cinebench r15 multi-threaded test this is surprising given the apu as a quad core and the 6200 you as a dual core with hyper-threading as you can see the 6200 you also delivered considerably stronger single thread performance finally the B box has crushed the original B box along with the ECS live X 7-zip includes a built in benchmark that measures compressing and decompressing performance in MIPS short for million instructions per second the dual core processor of the B box s isn't quite able to keep up with the a10 7800 apu but it does crush what was previously seen in the original b box and leave the X the B box s named APU trade blows in the x264 HD benchmark the little ass rock mini PC is particularly impressive here and we see a massive step forward from the original B box although not designed for gaming I know most of you will want to see some gaming performance regardless so here we have some League of Legends again that wouldn't even load on the original B box or leave it X shockingly the B box s was quite a bit faster than the a-10 7800 in this game something I wasn't expecting to find not just that but an average of 67 FPS for the B box s is particularly impressive given we're playing at 1080p using the very high quality settings those wanting to play csgo in the living room can do so on the B box s though if you play in the game at 1080p be prepared to lower the quality settings we received a 60 FPS average using the medium quality settings so that was very playable it would have been amazing if the hugely popular overwatch played well in the B box s but sadly it wasn't the case yes an average of 49 FPS can be seen here which casual gamers should find acceptable however the issue being that we had to reduce the quality settings to the lowest possible value and then lower the render scale to 50% at 1080p the game looked pretty horrible but I guess it was playable given the performance just seen the idle consumption of just 9 watts is extremely impressive in comparison the AMD a10 7800 system consumed 28 watts so that was three times more compared to the original B box we're seeing a little over twice the power consumption when stressing just the CPU with 22 watts for the B box s still that's roughly four and a half times less than the a10 7800 with the GPU and CPU under full load the B box s consumed just 39 watts a very impressive result given the performance the B box s seems like a solid step forward it makes many improvements over the original B box before it the move to implement a low voltage skylight processor has proven to be a significant upgrade in terms of performance and where the solar on end 3000 lacks punch the i5 6200 you bring some serious performance to this tiny unit another benefit of this processor is that it provides truly capable 4k playback we had no problems playing back all types of 4k content and this was really a requirement for this compact computer that many of we wanting to use as the home theater PC making it even more suited to this use was not just the inclusion of HDMI 1.4 but also hdmi 2.0 and DisplayPort enabling 4k 60 Hertz playback as well as support for dual monitors your space point one is another awesome inclusion there were only a couple of small issues I found with the device it is a little tricky to get your saddle cables to fit properly when you have a two and a half hitch drive installed and there's some definite cramming required some users will also find the glossy surface to be a bit of a fingerprint magnet but if that kind of thing doesn't bother you then there's no issue for potential buyers the real selling point of the be box s is the price you might expect ask I like you enable core i5 mini PC it cost a pretty penny especially one of this caliber a no idea which is why the current 320 US dollar asking price over at Newegg really shocked me the 6100 you model is also selling for just two hundred sixty four dollars another amazing bargain right there unfortunately for now the B box test is yet to go on sale down under so I can't quote Ozzy pricing still given what we've seen stateside there's a good chance they'll be competitively priced in ozland as well so in the end this is a really cool and really small mini PCE that would be perfect as a portable if you needed to be home theater PC for casual gaming and 4k playback what do you guys seem to be as rugby box s let me know in the comments I'm your host man as always and I'll see you guys next time youtubers like me depend on your support to continue improving the quality and content of our videos to support the channel directly consider becoming a patron to also get access to heap of cool rewards and exclusive giveaways also don't forget you can check prices and buy the products I looked at in this video through the Amazon links in the video description below thank you kindly for supporting me and the hardware own box channel 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