Elite ECS recently launched a new mini computer called LIVA ONE in the LIVA series. Although the volume design of this LIVA ONE is only one liter, the built-in hardware is still equipped with Intel's sixth-generation Core i3 processor with Intel H110 chipset, as well as a built-in 80GB solid-state drive, 8GB DDR3L memory and Hardware collocation such as wireless network module. What's more special is that on the fuselage of this LIVA ONE, a set of USB 3.1 Type-C transmission ports are built directly, allowing this computer to have more diverse peripheral expansion applications.

●Elite LIVA ONE mini computer unpacking and specification introduction

The newly launched LIVA ONE is packed in a carton outer box, and as can be seen from the pattern of the outer box, the body of this LIVA ONE can be placed upright.

The core hardware and peripheral expansion specifications of this LIVA ONE are also marked on the side of the outer box. It can also be known from the label of the outer box that the motherboard of this LIVA ONE is equipped with the Intel H110 chipset, and provides two DDR3L SO-DIMM memory slots, which can support up to 16GB of capacity, and the fuselage There is also installation space for a set of M.2 and 2.5-inch SATA hard drives. In addition, there is a built-in wireless network card module in the fuselage, which can support 802.11ac wireless network and Bluetooth 4.0 wireless transmission.

There is also a white inner box packaging in the package. After opening the upper cover of the inner box, you will directly see the accompanying manual and CD. The space below is the main unit of this LIVA ONE mini computer, and there are also some accompanying accessories in the space on both sides and under the fuselage.

In addition to the host computer, this LIVA ONE mini computer package also comes with quick installation instructions, user manuals, driver software CDs, screen backboards, upright racks, and USB Type-C to Type-A adapter cables. , power supply transformer, power cord and fixing screws.

One of the features of this mini computer is that it provides a set of USB Type-C ports on the fuselage. If the user does not have such a device at hand, he can also use the adapter cable in the accessory to connect the USB Type-C port on the fuselage. Convert the USB Type-C port to USB Type-A.

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Next, let's see the part of the fuselage. The size of the newly launched LIVA ONE mini computer by Elite is 173x176x33mm, and the volume is only about one liter. Its fuselage shell is made of metal material, and the upper cover part is also treated with glossy coating.

The right side of the front panel of the fuselage is equipped with a honeycomb-type air inlet to increase the heat dissipation effect, while on the left panel, in addition to the physical power button, operation indicator and Micro SD memory card reader, there are also direct internal A USB 3.1 Type-C port is built to increase the flexibility of computer peripheral expansion, but it seems that this group of USB3.1 ports only has the function of data transmission, and there is no way to output audio and video signals through this group of ports.

The main heat dissipation outlet of the fuselage is designed on the back of the fuselage, and most of the I/Os are also designed on the back of the fuselage. For the audio and video output part, this mini computer also provides audio and video transmission terminals such as HDMI, DisplayPort, D-Sub and a set of 3.5mm audio source holes. In terms of expansion specifications, in addition to the USB Type-C transmission port on the front panel and the Micro SD memory card reader, there are also 4 sets of USB3.0 transmission ports on the back of the fuselage, and the set of USB3. The 0 port can also support connecting an external DVD player with a 2.6A power specification.

As for network specifications, this LIVA ONE mini computer not only has a set of RJ-45 wired network ports on the back of the fuselage that can support Gigabit bandwidth, but also has a set of 802.11ac wireless network protocols directly installed in the fuselage. And the wireless network card of Bluetooth 4.0 transmission specification.

This mini computer can be placed in two ways: flat and upright. If it is to be placed upright, the screw holes of the fixing base are set on the side of the fuselage, but here it is actually a piece of black plastic surface directly glued Outside the screw holes, to be honest, the texture is really a bit bad. If you can use a rubber cushion to block it, or change the stand to a tenon-type design, it should improve the texture of the fuselage!

Pick up the pasted baffle to see the fixing screw holes of the stand.

There are long rubber cushions on the upper and lower sides of the bottom of the fuselage to achieve the effect of non-slip.

The actual weight of the fuselage is about 1.175 kg.

After reading the appearance design, then take off the outer cover to see the hardware configuration inside the fuselage! The top cover of this mini computer is detachable, but before disassembling, in addition to removing the four fixing screws on the back of the fuselage, you also need to remove the hexagonal studs on both sides of the D-Sub terminal. How to remove the top cover of the fuselage.

After removing the four screws on the back of the fuselage and the hexagonal studs of the D-Sub terminal, press the top and push it back to open the upper cover of the fuselage.

After opening the top cover, you can see that there is a set of 2.5-inch hard disk installation space inside, so that users in need can install hard disks themselves and increase storage capacity.

Under the 2.5-inch hard drive bay is the storage location, and the motherboard of this mini computer provides two sets of DDR3L SO-DIMM memory slots, and when the machine leaves the factory, the official standard specification sheet is provided. Judging from the shipment, it should be equipped with a set of DDR3L-1600 memory with a capacity of 4GB, and a set of memory slots will be reserved for users to expand by themselves.

Although the standard specification is to provide 4GB of memory, the machine I borrowed this time is equipped with a set of 8GB DDR3L-1600 memory launched by ADATA, so this time I will use this set of memory for testing!

The standard specification of this mini computer will be paired with a set of Intel's 530 series 80GB solid-state hard drive, which is designed to be installed next to the memory slot.

The built-in Intel 530 80GB M.2 solid state drive adopts Seagate (LSI) BF29AS41BB0 hard drive control chip with Intel's own 20nm flash memory particles.

After removing the M.2 hard drive, there is a wireless network card in the space below.

The built-in wireless network card is the AW-CB209NF wireless network card launched by AzureWave Haihua Technology, and the AD260BND-2 control chip is the RTL8824AE wireless network chip launched by Realtek, which can support 802.11ac wireless network protocol And Bluetooth 4.0 wireless transmission function.

This mini computer only has a blower fan from AVC installed on the radiator, which is mainly used to enhance the cooling effect of the processor.

The radiator mounted in the fuselage uses a copper base to directly contact the surface of the processor, and a copper heat pipe is also set to accelerate the conduction of waste heat to the extruded aluminum fins, and finally the built-in blower fan accelerates the waste heat. Pour out of the host.

The built-in processor of this mini computer is Intel Core i3-6100T of Intel's new generation of Skylake architecture, and the operating clock can reach 3.2GHz. There are two physical processing cores in this processor, and can support Hyper-Threading hyper-threading technology, which can support up to four thread operations. This Core i3-6100T processor also has integrated Intel HD Graphics 530 graphics chip, the highest operating clock can reach 950MHz, and supports Intel QuickSynoc Video high-speed conversion technology and Intel WiDi wireless image transmission and other functions.

In terms of audio specifications, the motherboard of this mini computer is equipped with the ALC662 audio chip introduced by Realtek, which supports 5.1-channel output.

●Elite LIVA ONE mini computer performance test

●Processor performance test

◆7-Zip software test

After using 7-Zip software to test the compression performance of the built-in processor, the overall rating is 9155MIPS.

◆CPU-Z software test

In the CPU-Z software performance test project, the single-core performance of this LIVA ONE processor is 1598 points, while the multi-core performance points are 3617 points.

◆CINEBENCH R15 processor project test

In the CINEBENCH R15 software test, the single-core performance test result of this mini computer is 134cb, the multi-core performance test result is 342cb, and the OpenGL display performance result is 29.41fps.

◆Nuclearus Multi Core software test

In the Nuclearus Multi Core software performance test, the processor performance test result has a total score of 17131 points.

◆SiSoftware Sandra 2016 software test

In the Processor Arithmetic project, the overall processor performance in this minicomputer is 53.76 GOPS.

In the multimedia processor (Processor Multi-Media) project, the overall evaluation result of the processor performance in this mini computer is 147.15MPixel/s.

In the encryption and decryption performance test project, the overall performance evaluation result of the processor in this mini computer is 3.43MB/s.

◆WinRAR software test

After executing the benchmark test built into the WinRAR software, the decompression performance test result of the built-in processor is 3621KB/s.

◆X264 FHD Benchmark software test

When testing the image conversion performance through the X264 FHD Benchmark software, the processor conversion performance of this mini computer was 11.8FPS.

●Memory performance test

◆AIDA64 memory performance test

When testing the memory performance items of AIDA 64 software, the memory read performance of this mini computer is 12245MB/s, the write performance is 12168MB, the copy performance is 12438MB/s, and the latency result is 71.1ns.

◆Memory bandwidth test of SiSoftware Sandra software

In the memory bandwidth test project of SiSoftware Sandra software, the integer memory bandwidth test result of this mini computer is 9GB/s, the floating point memory bandwidth test result is 8.75GB/s, and the overall memory performance test result is 10.31GB/s. s.

● Hard disk transfer performance test

From the CrystalDiskInfo software information, it can be seen that the hard disk of this mini computer is an Intel 530 series M.2 solid-state hard disk with a capacity of 80GB, the detailed model is SSDCKGW080A4, and its firmware version is DC31.

It can be seen from the file manager that after installing the Windows 10 operating system and drivers, the built-in solid-state drive has about 61GB of free space left.

◆Anvil's Storage Utilities software test

When using Anvil's Storage Utilities software to test the built-in solid state drive, the sequential read and write performances were 332.63MB/s and 88.8MB/s respectively, the 4K read and write performances were 16.36MB/s, and the write performance was 61.08MB/s, respectively. The total score is 1916.04 points.

◆AS SSD Benchmark software test

When using the AS SSD Benchmark software to test the built-in solid state drive, the sequential read and write performance test results were 407.61MB/s and 106.96MB/s respectively; the read and write test results of the 4K project were 18.42MB/s and 80.99MB/s, respectively. The total score was 397.

◆ATTO Benchmark software test

When using the ATTO Benchmark software to test the built-in SSD, the read and write performance test results can reach up to 542MB/s read and 510MB/s write.

◆CrystalDiskMark software test

In the random mode test of the CrystalDiskMark software, the sequential read and write performance test results of the built-in solid-state drive were 324.5MB/s and 94.15MB/s respectively; the read and write test results of the 4K project were 14.86MB/s and 41.37MB/s respectively. .

●Graphic chip performance test

◆3DMark software test

The minicomputer scored 2869 points, 4717 points and 30757 points in the tests of scenarios such as Sky Diver, Cloud Gate and Ice Storm.

◆Unigine Heaven software test results

In Unigine Heaven software, when the resolution of 1920x1080 is turned on, the display quality is set to "medium" and the anti-aliasing option is turned off, the average frames per second test result of the elite minicomputer is 8.4FPS, and the overall score is 212. point.

◆Unigine Valley test results

In Unigine Valley software, when the resolution of 1920x1080 is turned on, the display quality is set to "medium" and the anti-aliasing option is turned off, the average frames per second test result of the Elite minicomputer is 9.9FPS, and the overall score is 415. point.

◆Dragon Quest Game Test

When the game image was set to 1920x1080 and the image quality was set to the "standard quality" level, the Elite minicomputer scored an overall score of 3327.

◆Space Warrior 14 - Rebirth Game Test

When the game image was set to 1920x1080 and the image quality was set to "medium", the Elite minicomputer scored an overall score of 1606.

◆Space Warrior 14-HEAVENSWARD Game Test

When the game image was set to 1920x1080 and the image quality was set to "desktop standard", the Elite minicomputer scored an overall score of 1169.

◆Evil Castle 6 game test

When the game image is set to a resolution of 1920x1080, the anti-aliasing option is turned on FXAA and the "high" display effect is set, the test result of the Elite minicomputer is 953 points and the overall rating is D.

◆League of Legends game test

In the League of Legends game, when the resolution is set to 1920x1080 and each display effect level is set to "Medium-High", the average number of frames per second test result of the Elite minicomputer is 67.22FPS.

● Overall system performance test

After passing the PCMark 8 software test, the Elite's minicomputer scored a total score of 2688 in the PCMark Home project.

The total score in the PCMark Creative project is 3201 points.

The total score of the test results in the PCMark Work project is 2612 points.

●Elite LIVA ONE mini computer 4K video playback test

In fact, when using the Potplayer playback software to open the H.264 encoded HD CLUB 4K video and enable the hardware acceleration function, although the CPU usage has been significantly reduced, the playback screen is still somewhat delayed, and it will probably drop by 2~3FPS.

Then, when playing the LG APink demo film with H.265 encoding and 60fps picture, the picture delay is more obvious, and the actual FPS is less than half of the original.

●Elite LIVA ONE mini computer power consumption test

When the minicomputer is in standby, the overall system power consumption is about 12 watts.

When actually playing 4K video and turning on the hard decoding function, the power consumption is about 41 watts.

When the utilization rate of the processor and graphics chip is 100% through AIDA64 software, the overall power consumption of the system is about 46 watts.

●Test summary

Judging from the appearance design of a general desktop computer, the LIVA ONE mini computer with a volume of only one liter is indeed quite lightweight, and the built-in hardware is not only equipped with an Intel Core i3 processor, but also provides memory and a 2.5-inch hard drive. The hardware expansion flexibility, coupled with the built-in USB3.1 Type-C transmission port directly on the fuselage, is actually quite sufficient for general household needs. As for performance, although this mini-computer is not big, it is more than enough to handle normal Full HD video playback or games such as LOL League of Legends. However, it may be due to the performance of the processor. When actually playing 4K movies, the screen delay is a bit obvious.