MeLE Quieter3Q Fanless Mini PC Review - Windows 11 Pro PC with Linux Compatibility

VIDEO INDEX:
00:00 - Intro
00:38 - Price
00:43 - Processor, RAM, Storage & Upgradeability
01:37 - Fanless
02:25 - Ports
03:53 - WiFi Speed Test
04:18 - Weight
04:55 - Web Browsing & YouTube
05:27 - Browserbench Speedometer Test
05:39 - Microsoft Office & Video / Photo Editing Advice
05:59 - Gaming & Game Streaming
07:20 - 3DMark Cloudgate & Time Spy Benchmarks
07:48 - 3DMark Stress Test
08:29 - Linux
09:15 - BIOS Options
09:43 - Plex Server Use
10:19 - Conclusion

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[TheBarbarianNerd]

Just built a plex server with it... works great. Running lubuntu 22.04. One note though the 5.15 kernel has a bug affecting loading HW transcoding software. I updated the kernel to 5.18 and bingo bango full hardware transcode. Tested with 14G, 4k HEVC file transcoding down to 480p... CPU ran between 12% to 35% usage and ran flawlessly

[kubev]

I recently replaced our old time clock computer with one of these. Due to some issues that I eventually founded to be caused by Windows 11 putting some power settings inside Settings and some conflicting power settings in the old Control Panel, I decided to put this mini PC through a lot more troubleshooting after a rocky rollout as our replacement time clock computer, including a torture test that it handled quite well at full load. Nice little PC as long as you don't need anything high-spec.

[hfric]

This would be a great box for Batocera OS, the emulation station for all consoles possible ... just flash it on a SD or a USB stick, place it on as a boot drive and your set ... all games in 1080p 60fps from Nes to C64 to Amiga to Snes to Gnesis to PS1\PS2 to Dreamcast ... etc...

[nhennessy]

Bought the Quieter 2 a few months ago. Wanted to use it as a home theater server to stream Netflix desktop app, Qobuz streaming CD quality music app through JRiver with Dirac DSP speaker correction software. Was balky, dropped and stalled, would not stream HDR 10 or even 4k Netflix (had to drop it down to 1080P), and it died after 5 weeks. So not IMHO a good idea for a home theater server.

[nhennessy]

As a postscript to my post of 6 months ago, I bought the Quieter 3Q to replace the Quieter 2, and the 3Q is much better. I have it run 4K HDR for Netflix and it does it just fine as long as I drop it down. Since most of Netflix is 23.98 FPS, that what I dropped its resolution down to, and it seems to work just fine for everything. Youtube experience around a 1 in 30 frame dropout rate when I do Stats for Nerds. Frankly, I don't even notice. Lip sync seemss fine for everything. Finally I also do a lot of aggressive DSP with all my audio (Bass mgt, 5.1 Audio, PEQ via JRiver MC 30 and Room and speaker correction via Dirac) and it handle everything in stride. It's just good enough. Runs hot to the touch, and does have those missed frames. Occasionally when I use it as a web browser, I notice it becomes unresponsive, but that may not even be its fault. It's dead quiet, which is very important in a home theater application.

Basically, I've been able, using this as a home theater processor, to do away with the dorm refrigerator sized home theater receiver and just send the audio to my multi channel usb dac (Octo Research DAC 8) and from there to my ultra high quality amps (Purifi Eval 1's). It's a better sound than any receiver could deliver, takes up less space, and costs less. And this unit only $260. Just wish it were just a little more powerful and ran a little cooler.

[jose.inestroza]

Great review as always. Very impressed with the performance versus the form-factor. I'm glad to see it is compatible with GNU/Linux. I surely don't need one now but its good to see how good are turning this kind of Fanless Mini PCs.

[RWDtech]

This is a great value for a NAS/Plex server! Glad to see the Celeron's finally cracking the 4000 Passmark barrier. Those N4100's that were in a lot of the mini PC's a couple years ago were garbage.

[WAWG]

I have been useing MeLE Quiter 2Q with my Roku TV I use for monator 2160p 4K over a wear, I am 73 Years old and am just a normal user, It worls great, Never had problem with Heat

[JohnStopman]

I own a square version of this mini pc with an active fan (The Aero 2 by Aerofara): the 5105 works flawlessly with Lubuntu 22.04.1 (also because 4k runs without any framedrops, and that's due to Lubuntu which needs much fewer recources than W11). The only thing that is not supported (for now) is the soundcard, but Aerofara included an USB audio card to compensate 🙂

The MeLE Quieter3Q will probably run 4k content without framedrops when Lubuntu is installed 😉

[TheDesertsweeper]

Now this size-form-factor with a low-power AMD APU would be KILLER...

[carlospcpro]

I was thinking for months in purchasing a mini pc, but the lack of usb c was a deal breaker. I ended buying a NUC and upgrading it. Hope this brand makes better IO next time. Thanks for sharing the review!

[frankarndt]

Hallo Lon, hab ich mir gekauft und Cubase Elements läuft da auch drauf, aber bei den Plugins fängt es an zu stottern

[manuelsalgado]

Hi there. Thanks for all you do. You’ve helped me out in a lot of my projects. I am looking at this mini pc for a plex media server. Would of be able to stream 4K hdr content while wired without hiccups? Thank you sir.

[RaffyART]

This is actually a good processor. It is faster than an i5 6200u and a bit worse than i5 7200u. This celeron is quite impressive.

[Mister-Gee-]

Have you tried to enable and get working wake on lan?

[ziggy]

not there yet with this one...maybe next generation will play 4k video properly

[silvanigra]

Can I install Windows 10 instead of the preinstalled Windows 11?

[sixdonuts]

This looks to be a very well-designed mini PC.

[johnstouchpad]

What's the price, I must have missed it?

[eedoamitay]

What are you talking about with the usb c power supply thing? You re saying it wont work with another compatible usb c charger and cable? That makes no sense...