ECS has never failed to show interesting things at the COMPUTEX show floor this year, the Taiwanese company has unveiled its most recent development of its Liva mini PCs, as in the case of the Liva Z, this little machine is designed for Intel’s Apollo Lake platform and supports the new Intel Pentium and Celeron SOCs, while this machine is clearly made for commercial purposes, it still comes with a very decent hardware such as having a M.2 SSD slot, two Gigabit ethernet ports and two DDR3L slots. In addition, ECS mentions that the Liva Z has a stackable base which users can expand storage and input ports.
The Liva Pro is a high end mini PC from the company and supports 6th generation Intel processors, it uses ECS’s very own mini-STX H110S-2P motherboard that offers flexibility for customization, users can install up to 32GB of DDR4 memory and install a M2.SSD and 2.5″ HDD combo for storage, the Liva Pro also offers a number of I/O, there’s 4 x USB 3.0 ports with one of them being a USB Type-C port, Gigabit LAN, a wireless combo card, HDMI and DisplayPort. ECS has also partnered with Silverstone as well in offering a different case design for its mini-STX platform.
On the other part of its booth, ECS also showcased its latest Intel Z170 motherboards, the Z170 LightSaber motherboard is the company’s latest offering for Intel’s Skylake platform which offers great performance for gamers, sporting Killer’s E2400 ethernet controller with LAGFree+ that greatly improves network bandwidth efficiency and load balancing, the motherboard will support up to 64GB of DDR4 3200 memory with 4 DIMM slots, there’s three PCI-e x 16 slots for supporting AMD’s CrossFire, two USB 3.1 ports, six USB 3.0 ports and eight USB 2.0 ports. Moreover, the Z170 Lightsaber also has RGB illumination and Flash DiGi power, which the latter will offer a stable voltage maximizing to fulfill hard core gamers’ demand for over-clocking.
The new Liva mini PCs will be available soon in the market, while the Z170 Lightsaber motherboard should be available in local IT retailers already so do check them up.
