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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 II

The eMMC controller can be enabled or disabled; by disabling it, the storage part won’t be accessible anymore:

WiFi and Bluetooth functions can be disabled manually as well:

TPM 2.0 is enabled to allow installation of the latest Windows operating system:

The Chipset area allows working with three more sub-sections:

The SA Configuration area allows the user to configure the amount of memory available to the iGPU:

PCH Configuration also takes care of enabling or disabling the audio interface via HDMI:

ME Control can be enabled or disabled:

From the Tweak tab, we can enable EIST and Turbo Boost:

The Security tab allows the user to turn the Secure Boot off, but also adjust the Administrator Password:

Boot menu can be checked out next:

Finally, we have the Exit menu, where we can save, discard or load factory defaults; here we also have a save slot, “save as user defaults” or we can perform Boot Override:

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