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Title: ECS LIVA Z5 PLUS mini-PC Review: A Different Take on Raptor Lake

Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2024 08:45:00 EDT
Link: https://www.anandtech.com/show/21417/ecs-liva...

The trend towards miniaturization of desktop systems was kickstarted by the
Intel NUCs in the early 2010s. The increasing popularity of compact PCs also
led to the introduction of a variety of slightly larger form-factors. Custom
boards falling in size between the NUC's 4" x 4" ultra-compact form-factor
(UCFF) and industrial-applications oriented 3.5" SBC have also gained
traction. The ECS LIVA Z5 PLUS is one such system, designed and marketed
towards business and industrial use-cases.

Intel's Raptor Lake series of products was introduced in early 2023. It came
in both P and U versions for notebooks and ultraportables, in addition to the
usual H(X) ones for high-performance gaming notebooks. Most mini-PCs and NUCs
opted for the P varieties in their systems. The ECS LIVA Z5 PLUS represents a
different take, with a U series processor operating with a slight increase in
the configurable TDP (cTDP) over Intel's suggested 15W operating point. Read
on for a comprehensive look at the performance and features of the ECS LIVA
Z5 PLUS, including some comments on the benefits enabled by the slightly
larger form-factor.

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