ECS, or EliteGroup pc systems, first have become a recognized brand earlier than AMD released the Athlon, and ECS made a few lower-priced motherboards for that platform.

It grew to grow to be the 5th-largest maker of motherboards, with manufacturing facilities in Asia and North America directed from a headquarters in Taiwan.

Nowadays ECS makes a huge diversity of devices including laptops, tablets, Motherboards, IoT products, and our overview today, mini-desktops.

Price and Availability

ECS gives three variations of the LIVA Z3 that appear a great deal identical from the outside however, internally have subtle internal differences concerning the processor, RAM, and storage alternatives.

The cheapest has the Celeron N4500 CPU, 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of eMMC SSD storage, and it sells for £252 inside the United Kingdom and $194.88 on Amazon.com. For £276, you can improve that to a Celeron N5100 processor with the same RAM and storage.

And the top specification, Z3, is the only one reviewed right here, costs £300 in the UK, and is derived with the Pentium Silver N6000 processor and 128GB of eMMC storage, however still has 4GB of RAM. We determined the exact specification on Newegg.com for $226.

Design

While Intel created the NUC specification, they left especially little elbow room for system makers to color outside the traces, and the Z3 follows the one’s pointers exactly.

Measuring just ‎11.7 x 12.8 x 3.5 cm and weighing 1.31 KG, this is a tiny laptop this is nearly as small as a television streaming box from Roku.

With the type of small device, the distance available for ports is restrained, and the front and back of the Z3 are completely utilized in this admire.

The front has 3 USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports, a single USB 3.2 Gen 2 USB-C port, a usual audio jack, and a strength button. The rear face is concerned with gigabit Ethernet, HDMI 2.0, MiniDP,  USB 2.0 Type-A ports, and the PSU connection.

The build is plastic, though the underside is metal and the frame that holds the internals is also robustly built.

Different NUC makers have selected to make silver enclosures, often from milled aluminum, but ECS alternatively when with high-gloss black plastic ignoring its affinity for dust attraction.

• CPU is Intel Jasper Lake SoC Pentium Silver N6000.
• Graphics is Intel UHD graphics.
• RAM is 4GB DDR4-2666 2x 2GB, upgrade to 16GB SSD.
• Storage space 128GB of eMMC memory, 1x M.2 2280 SSD PCIe slot.
• Ports 1 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 USB-C, 3 x USB3.2 Gen 1 Type-A, 2 x USB 2.0, 1 x HDMI, 1x MiniDP, 1 x popular audio jack.
• Connection of WLAN 802.11ax / ac wireless network adapter, Gigabit LAN adapter, Bluetooth v5.0.
• Weight:-/width 1.31 KG.
• Length:- 117 x 128 x 35 mm W x D x H.