[Geekbuying]MK802+ Android PC, $40 shipped - Page 3

After googling around a bit I noticed that this thing is said to run a bit on the hot side, but some people have done the heatsink mod to it, i.e., drop the usual glue-on RAM heatsinks for the GFX cards on the CPU and RAM chips.

That gave me an idea (which would ofc be utterly pointless) - A SB waterblock, say Alphacool NBXS-A (which I have) with some kind of custom bracket should be able to cover about exactly the CPU and RAM chips on that thing + combine it with the cheapest/smallest pump one can find, say an Alphacool DT-LT and some arbitrary rad and one would have an watercooled ARM PC. Well ofc considering its like up to 10W or something like that the undertaking would be a bit poinless for other than e-peen, but hey - not everyone can claim to have an watercooled ARM rig.

Edit: So I thought a bit over the dimensions of that thing if watercooled. The main thing determining the size will be radiator with fittings. The dongle itself is 10x3x1.5 cm, the DT-LT pump + top is 5x5x3 cm (this pump is really small, have 2 of these in my system) and a rad, lets say Nexxos ST 30 is 16x12.5x3 cm - So - if I would put the dongle on the 16 cm long side and pump+top next to it (tube routing would be a bit of a problem prolly) then with 25mm thick fan this whole thing would be about 17x17 cm and about 6 cm high. With such a small loop I would not need a res, just would have to bleed to loop properly. Bill of materials would be about twice the cost of that ARM PC itself tho about 27 eur for the rad, about 30 for the pump + top and I already have spare fittings, tubing, fans that start as low as 5 V, etc. - I'll have to think about it some more. There is no real point to put it under water I should finish first my current build as I'm always starving for the time. We'll see - would get a nice buildlog I imagine though.
Edited by Carniflex - 10/25/12 at 12:24pm

Got mine yesterday



It seems that the PC USB port is indeed a bit on the weak side to make it boot properly but at least it was able to show me the Android screen Had a DVI to HDMI dongle in my bag from one of my GFX cards a while ago so a DVI monitor was perfectly capable of showing a picture. Will have to poke around sometime later if I get more time to see what this thing really can do. For me it was 31 eur and shipped quite fast without getting stuck in customs - probably bcos it looks such an innocent little thing

did you order the same day as the OP posted this deal? Thats pretty quick that you have received it already... Still waiting on mine.

Yeah it was faster than I expected. Usually "free" shipping from Asia takes about 20 days to reach me.

Hoping i get mine soon. How is it connecting to your monitor? via hdmi. I'm hoping it will connect just fine and play flash videos for me.

I dont have HDMI monitors, I have an TV with HDMI but I'm atm stopping another location so will take some days before I get around to trying that. Atm I have just access to 5x DELL displays I'm using in my sig rig so I tried these, however, the picture coming from the stick is strange purple like one of the color channels would be missing or something like that. Note, however, that I'm using an HDMI to DVI dongle which I dont really remember where I got it, might have been an Sapphire 5770 which had it in its box. I prefer displayport and VGA standards so have not seen yet a reason to stock up with HDMI compatible gadgets. So the purple hue might be result of that converter perhaps.









Other than the purple hue the device seems to be functional. WiFi was able to connect, a generic optical USB mouse was recognized without problems, etc. Videos seems to be playing pretty decently, at first when cliking them they did not start for some reason in youtube but cliking again on the progress bar got them playing fine.

Hmm.. All I need is a monitor,one of these and wallah I has car pc in my semi....

Small update, seems like the purple tint hue was an issue with my HDMI to DVI converter dongle as with native HDMI connector colors are ok and also sound is transferred properly over HDMI

Has anybody with a SlingBox tried the SlingPlayer app with this thing? I'm curious as to how well it works (better than buying the actual SlingPlayer for close to $200).

Not liking mine. My only intention for it is to play videos via USB. That works, mostly; there are some codec problems I could probably get around.

However, the USB and HDMI randomly cut out. Has nothing to do with videos -- it happens just sitting on the home screen.

Oh well. In the box in my closet it goes.