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ECS LIVA Q3D Mini-PC Review

Others/All-in-one PC by stefan @ 2023-04-15

The LIVA Q3D is a very interesting offering in a small package, allowing decent 4K media playback, browsing capabilities and office work, while using the latest Windows OS from Microsoft (W11 22H2). The 128GB of eMMC offers transfer rates like entry-level SATA SSDs but the main problem is the inclusion of only 4GB RAM which in some cases causes slowdowns as soon it gets filled and swapping occurs to the included storage. The use of lightweight versions of W11 may be recommended more here, such as Tiny11, because these were designed to run on system with as low as 2GB of RAM.

The BIOS Interface Part I

The UEFI BIOS is not enabled with the mouse interaction interface, but sports the simple, legacy Aptio appearance; the Main section allows the user to change the UI language, but also adjust the system date and time:

From the Advanced area we can access a lot of sub-sections:

LAN Configuration menu allows turning the interface on or off:

From the PC Health Status menu, we can check the real-time SoC temperature, system temperature, fan speed, the CPU core voltage, the soldered RAM voltage, 3.3V voltage measurement but also the TCC activation temp:

The usual PM options are next:

From the CPU Configuration area, we can work with different processor-specific options:

USB ports can be enabled or disabled via the dedicated menu:

The SuperIO Configuration is the area to for configuring HDMI CEC:

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