The ECS Liva Q3 Plus (starts at $332; $550 as tested) is a capable and quiet mini PC, which were two things that we couldn’t say about its predecessor, the Liva Q2, whose meager performance limited it to single-program productivity work or display duty and whose loud cooling fan never ceased. In addition to better performance and acoustics inside what is still one of the mini-est of mini-PC enclosures, the Liva Q3 Plus offers improved connectivity with the addition of a third USB port and a mini-DisplayPort connection. The system is based on an embedded AMD Ryzen V1605B chip that features four processing cores and integrated Radeon Vega 8 graphics.
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