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I have not noticed any reduction in smoothness and fluidity, even with the Kernel GPU drivers patch to fix tearing in the OE Kodi GUI on the WeTek Core. Even OE on the S805 C1 has regained its fluidity with a bit of a Mali Turbo tweak.

I have found it to be less smooth than it was previously, but it is still a huge improvement over the tearing. The reduction in fluidity is more noticeable on the stock OE (I am now using), than on your patched version with the CPU governor changed. The stock OE does not have the skip/sync issues that your patched version does though.

What does affect performance greatly is a SD card that is having R/W issues for whatever reason.
I've had so many issues with Samsung SD cards lately that I only trust Sandisk SD cards when used on AMLogic devices from now on.

Interesting, I found the complete opposite. My Sandisk Ultra card was hopeless in the Core, but I have used 3 Samsung EVO cards that are flawless.