The Scottish Boinc Team

Based on recent interest in single board computers, I thought it was worth giving a brief FWIW about the android tv boxes. The advantage of these boxes is they come with everything you need to setup and run. To set them up, you connect them to your network (wired or wireless), temporarily connect to TV or monitor, plug in USB mouse, set date/time options, set network config, install Native Boinc, configure Native Boinc to allow you to connect to it from another Boinc Manager, move it to its permanent location, connect to it from your main computer Boinc Manger, start adding projects and let it crunch.

These are the boxes, not the dongles. There’s lots of different models, but the main features to be concerned with are:
CPU – three common are the RK3188, S802 and RK3288
RAM – this is just like the RAM in your PC. Get one with 2GB. Some are only 1GB, beware and skip those.
Flash storage – This is your total “disk” storage. 8GB is the most common. Like the RAM, just be sure it’s listed. As you can imagine, there’s not much room for a lot of data or WUs.

They’re all quad core systems. CPU freq varies. I don't have any official benchmarks for these systems, but here’s their relative performance compared to each other:
Odroid U3, quad core, 1.7Ghz – slower than RK3188. 293 minutes to complete a SubsetSumWU
RK3188, quad core, 1.6Ghz – slowest of the android tv boxes. 236 minutes to complete a SubsetSumWU
S802, quad core, 2.0Ghz – 60% faster than the RK188. 145 minutes to complete a SubsetSumWU
RK3288, quad core, 1.6Ghz – Twice as fast as the RK3188. 122 minutes to complete a SubsetSumWU

Here's some links to Amazon (US), with the current prices...
RK3188 ~$40 (US)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00K6BLPJ8

S802 ~$51(US)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JDCO22I

RK3288 ~$60(US) (not used this specific model)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DPT7SGC
I have a couple of these http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00P69R4JA

Anyway, they are easy to setup and get crunching. If you end up with a more than a couple, it's worth considering a better 5V PSU to power them all from. The stock PSUs are very inefficient.

Anyway, thought this might be useful for any considering the single board systems.

credit time comparisions are in the first post here single board comparision

If you have time / points for various projects on different systems to whats listed then post them up and I will update list. We have no data for the RK3288 for example ... hint, hint

Perhaps handy to mention that

• The $69 Odroid U3 -a Samsung Exynos 4412 based ARM Cortex-A9 Quad@1700MHz with Mali-400 MP4 GPU@533MHz- has been discontinued in favour of the $74 Odroid XU4 -Samsung Exynos 5422 based Octa-core (ARM Cortex-A15 Quad 2000MHz and ARM Cortex-A7 Quad 1400MHz in big.LITTLE. It has an octo-core Mali-T628 MP6 GPU). There's an Exynos 5422 in the Samsung Galaxy S5 (SM-G900H), btw.
• The Amlogic S802 is a Quad-core ARM Cortex-A9@2000MHz with a Octo-core ARM Mali-450, up to 600 MHz.
• The Rockchip R3188 is a Quad-core ARM Cortex-A9@1600MHz with a quad-core ARM Mali-400 GPU, up to 600 MHz.
• The Rockchip R3288 is a Quad-core ARM Cortex-A17@1800MHz with a quad-core ARM Mali-T760 MP4, up to 600 MHz. You can find them in Pipo P1, Pipo P8, Teclast P90HD, Tronsmart Orion R28 and FNF iFive Mini 4 devices.

The ARM Cortex-A9 is a passed station, IMHO (and it was the station after the ARM Cortex-A8...).

Perhaps worth mentioning too: There's a Tronsmart Orion R68 for sale for some $75 (Pro version, 1GB RAM/8GB Flash) or $99 (Meta version, 2GB RAM/16GB Flash), featuring a 64-bit Rockchip R3368 Octo-Core ARM Cortex-A53....