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MeLE has released a new and updated version of the Quieter mini PC called the Quieter3Q. Like before, it is a passive mini PC but now features the latest low-powered Intel Celeron Jasper Lake CPU and an upgraded PCIe 3.0 x2 M.2 2280 NVMe SSD slot. MeLE has kindly sent one for review and I’ve looked at performance running both Windows and Ubuntu and connecting an eGPU. MeLE Quieter3Q Hardware Overview Besides, MeLE Quitere3C supports dual-band supports WiFi 6 802.11ax, Bluetooth 5.2, and Gigabit Ethernet. Despite the small and ultra-thin design, the device has multiple I / O ports: During the stress test, the maximum temperature I recorded on the top of the device was around 54.6°C in an ambient room temperature of 12.7°C with the device not being too hot to touch. If the CPU frequency is monitored during the stress test it can be seen that the initial temperature peak is caused by the CPU running at an average of 2600 MHz for the ‘PL1’ duration after which it thermal throttles and drops to an average frequency of 2340 MHz to prevent overheating:
The MeLE Quieter3Q is physically the same as before consisting of a 131 x 81 x 18.3mm (5.16 x 3.19 x 0.72 inches) rectangular plastic case with a metal base plate. The top half of the case is finely grooved to mimic the fins of a heat spreader but is made of plastic rather than metal to allow reception to the WiFi antennas as one is directly connected to it. As a passively cooled mini PC, it uses Intel’s 10 nm Jasper Lake N5105 processor which is a quad-core 4-thread 2.00 GHz Celeron processor boosting to 2.90 GHz with Intel’s UHD Graphics.The only place where it may fall down is in the WiFi (mine came with WiFi 5) and its speed throttling even on one of the 6W Jasper Lake processors (the PN41 is fanless). However, you could upgrade to WiFi 6 with a fairly inexpensive M.2 card/replacement. Don't know about the speed throttling, I haven't found any way to disable that although for safety/reliability reasons it might be a good idea to just leave it as is (the performance for imaging and remote access seems okay). I also played variously encoded videos in Kodi all of which played up to 8K @ 30 FPS without issue and used hardware for decoding:
Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation JaserLake SPI (flash) Controller [8086:4da4] (rev 01) configuration: depth=32 driver=i915 latency=0 mode=2560x1080 resolution=2560,1080 visual=truecolor xres=2560 yres=1080 I also confirmed that the new Type-C USB port supported power delivery by connecting the MeLE Quieter3C directly to a Dell monitor without separately connecting power:WiFi 6, Bluetooth5.2, Gigabit Ethernet and Dual HDMI，supports 4K@60fps HDR videos dual-screen outputs, 4xUSB 3.0 ports。 The Quieter3Q offers a notable improvement over its predecessor. Whilst the physical appearance and external port configuration are similar, both the CPU and iGPU are more powerful and the M.2 NVMe slot is now PCIe Gen 3 rather than Gen 2 resulting in a doubling of bandwidth which is significant when you only get two lanes. Highlights
and that only the third port together with the rear Type-C USB port was ‘USB 3.0’ (USB 3.2 Gen 1×1 i.e. 5 Gbit/s): Have a couple of 3Qs, they seem like good systems. If you need the different ports on the 3C, tough to wrong with these, I’d wager. They run hot when stressing them, but I’ve never seen them throttle. When booting Ubuntu 22.04.1, there was the usual UEFI (BIOS) error being reported in the ‘dmesg’ that appears common with Jasper Lake mini PCs and whose significance of which has not been determined: Linux Quieter-3 5.15.0-33-generic #34-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 18 13:34:26 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/LinuxWhen reviewing mini PCs I typically look at their performance under both Windows and Linux (Ubuntu) and compare them against some of the more recently released mini PCs. I now review using Windows 11 version 21H2 and Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS. I test with a selection of commonly used Windows benchmarks and/or equivalents for Linux together with Thomas Kaiser’s ‘sbc-bench’ which is a small set of different CPU performance tests focusing on server performance when run on Ubuntu. On Ubuntu, I also compile the v5.15 Linux kernel using the default config as a test of performance using a real-world scenario. Full function type C could meet Power input , Data Transmit , Video Display with just one cable. PD3.0. I just received a Quieter3C mini PC and have been setting it up this afternoon. Looking at the 120V to 12V USB-C power adapter, I'm wondering if I can cut the power chord and install Anderson Power Pole connectors. This would let me use the 12V Rig Runner unit I have been using to power my existing rig with an Intel NUC. Does any one know if there are more than two active wires in the power chord? I don't know much about USB-C wiring. It would be a mess if more than the standard 2 (+12V and Ground) wires are used. and lists the USB ports as either 3.0 or 2.0 so I tested them together with the Type-C USB port using a Samsung 980 PRO PCle 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD housed in a ‘USB to M.2 NVMe adapter’ (ORICO M2PAC3-G20 M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure) which showed that the ‘blue’ USB ports were ‘USB 3.1’ (USB 3.2 Gen 2×1 i.e. 10 Gbit/s):
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