kabini 5350 vs Nvidia Shield TV

Lord Alibaski

Lord Alibaski

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Currently running kodibuntu on this system

AMD Athlon 5350
Kingston HyperX Fury Blue 4GB (1x4GB)
Asus AM1I-A
120GB OCZ SSD
Strider SST-ST30SF SFX Series
Raijintek - Metis

Now I've had many issues with this system since purchasing it a while back but now it's running ok with kodibuntu installed. My main issue is with playback on some HD films sometimes it pixelates between 10/20 seconds then it's ok.

I just wondered if the nvidia shield TV be any better than the system above.
 
I have a Nvidia shield TV, I use it with kodi and a few streaming apps and I've found it to absolutely flawless. Playback is fast both when streaming from my nas as well as Netflix and the WWE network.

I've used kodi with 2 other set top boxes and the nvidia shield TV is my far the smoothest experience to date.

The gamestream features on the other hand I wasn't as impressed with to be honest, although I didn't spend a great deal of time setting them up so could probably get it running better in time.
 
The Shield Tv is my third android box and its the best one. As above, it plays everything smoothly from local drives and from networked drives.

Recommended!
 
Cheers guys with all the problems I see with HD files I don't think the kabini is actually that good of a chip.


FerretBoy said:
Try openelec on a USB stick before you spend any money.
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Been there done that m8 and openelec on the kabini is a lot worse tried several versions of openelec on USB 1st and SSD way too many problems, hence the reason I have kodibuntu installed.


Have a look here and till this date still hasn't been fixed.

I think I will be getting the shield myself.
 
you need to put a dedicated gpu in, a nvid 210 or 610 series will do 'bout 20 notes from OC

I'm using a 210 series with an old x2 64 amd, no problems been running for over a year
 
That's another problem altogether.

The Asus AM1I-A motherboard only supports x4 graphics I put a HD6670 in it and it wouldn't power it up so I purchased a 5450 it powered up but no matter what I tried it wouldn't post.
 
Lord Alibaski said:
That's another problem altogether.

The Asus AM1I-A motherboard only supports x4 graphics I put a HD6670 in it and it wouldn't power it up so I purchased a 5450 it powered up but no matter what I tried it wouldn't post.
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Mine's running a 750ti perfectly - what PSU are you using?

[edit] just seen in the OP... seems ood as there's no reason that shouldn't work!
 
Exactly m8 had this problem since week 1 of purchase.

I have just tried the HD6670 in it again it does boot up but no post, there is no option in the BIOS either to set it to the PCI-E slot, I can't try the 5450 anymore I sold it.

Are you running yours on the Asus AM1I-A micro-atx version mine is running on the mini-itx version.

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You can see it only supports x4 cards but supposedly let's you put a x16 card in but only runs @ x4....but I've tried 2 now and none work.
 
I had that board 1st dead on arrival so they changed it to this one for me.

Wish I stuck it out and just asked for a replacement of the MSI board.

There isn't much option in mini itx for fsb1 chips or I would just purchase a new board.
 
Could be completely unrelated by I had an issue with an HDMI graphics card in a Mini ITX board, would boot but no picture etc it was something to do with the motherboard not defaulting the output to the graphics card HDMI. Can you disable the onboard outputs if no setting to output to PCI-E? Worst case a CMOS reset will fix if still not output.
 
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Hmm, what sort of video files is it having problems with? I have that same chip in my HTPC and I'm running XBMC (still on Frodo I think) on Windows 7 64bit. I can play un-compressed 1080p/7.1 channel sound Blu-ray rips (~25Gig .mkv files) from my microserver across my network without any stuttering or problems.
 
Some files are HD files on kodi which are only 1080p files nothing big because most files on there are only 1.6gb in size.

Also it as problems with a few mkv files I have installed on the drive and there only small files 600mb - 1.3gb in size.

It's a strange one indeed.

I have tried several OS and each one gives me problems mainly the same problem which is kodi freezing.

Only kodibuntu has worked.
 
When I 1st started off I was using a usb stick if you check the link I put a few post up it takes you to the openelec forum where quite a few people have the same problem.

These are what I tried

openelec - 4.2.1 = froze 3 times in 1 hour
openelec - 4.97.2 = froze once in 2 hours
enelec - 6 = same problem as above
windows 10 = froze after 4 hours, but was also too buggy
windows 8.1 = froze after 76mins
Linux mint 17.1 = lasted the longest 3hrs 8mins before it froze.


I've just found something in the manual regarding the graphics somewhere where I wouldn't have even looked under regarding graphics.

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So I'm going to try it again later
 
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You know what guys

I just went in to the NB Configuration settings and there right in front of me was the option to set the IGFX video to PCIE video card instead...lol

Rebooted with the HD6670 in and we have it posting.

Can't believe I've had it all this time and never looked in the manual when I couldn't see it in the BIOS.
 
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