Mini PC Windows 11 Pro, MeLE Mini PC Quieter3Q N5105 LPDDR4 8GB ROM 128GB M.2 SSD (Up to 2.90 GHz) Office & Home Dual HDMI2 4K 60Hz, BT5.2, Wi-Fi 6, USB3.0, Gigabit Ethernet, VESA Mou

Almost no hardware streamers on the market support Amazon Music HD and digital room correction. So, I made my own streamer with this little silent PC. After letting Windows Update do its thing for about 2 hours, I optimized the OS for audio and installed Dirac Live Standalone, Amazon Music, and Foobar2000 and connected it to my USB DAC. I control it via RDP using either my tablet or laptop. It works perfectly and sounds fantastic. When playing back audio while running Dirac DRC, CPU utilization fluctuates between 9 and 21%. Ram utilization sits right at 40%. The unit gets warm to the touch, but not hot. It works so well for this application that I will be purchasing a second one for my office.

I bought this one in an effort to replace a Raspberry Pi4b doing these things, running Ubuntu Server:
* Samba NAS incl. Timemachine
* Unify Network Controller
* High Quality Apple Airplay 2 Receiver (external dac)
* Some various Scripts for Home Automation

So far the Mele is doing all of these things much faster than the Pi with more or less same power consumption in idle (about 2-4 Watt with NVMe SSD). As it idles most of the time idle consumption is critical for me. Temperature ist very low and I can use an existing Anker USB-C Power Supply. The passive solution works much better for me than a fan would (power consumption, loudness, breaks over time).
For next Releases I’d appreciate a faster PCI-e connection as I’m currently seeing Speeds between 1.2-1.5GB/s (out of possible 3.5GB/s) and higher RAM of at least 16GB. Most important: keep Idle-Consumption as low as it is.

It’s a nice Machine for use as Low Power Server. So if it keeps running for month without reboot and issues I’ll stay happy with my purchase. Time will tell.

I have done all my computer tasks on Chromebook for the past couple years. The exception is the need for Publisher. I kept an early version of Surface Pro to handle that need ~ docked to a desk monitor using Bluetooth keyboard and mouse. Unfortunately, it began to fail. I searched all options of desktops, towers, laptops, etc. during black Friday and cyber-Monday. In the process I discovered the minicomputer! Perfect ~ gave me Windows 11, access to my OneDrive files, 365 Office subscription and for a very low investment.
I am impressed with this solution! I do wish there had been a warning that a wired mouse and keyboard would be required to get the device setup. Perhaps obvious for a computer nerd, but not for a casual/retired/octogenarian ~ it’s been years since I had those wired devices around the house.

This little thing is faster then my old laptop for accessing my images during acquisition maybe do to the nvme I added. Go for the lowest storage space and the most ram you can get them just upgrade your storage space to an nvme ssd. You might have to go through a process to use it as a bootable just watch astro Patriots video on how to do so it’s supper easy. You can use this little guy for shot of things.

Did a bit of research and this ticks all the boxes: 4K, bluetooth, fanless, low power consumption, recent CPU generation (the N5105 was released January 2021), Windows 11, tiny. Connected a monitor, keyboard and mouse, it booted up with no issues. Spent a few hours running Windows updates. Hooked it up to the TV set and wireless USB keyboard; it worked silently and flawlessly. Connected to wireless earbuds with no issue.

One flaw: it runs a little warm. Mounted it on a picture frame holder to give it maximum air surface area since the case is the heatsink.

Note: the CPU is an N5105, not a N4500 as reported above. Windows system information shows it is 2.0 GHz.

Falls es von Interresse ist, Baseus Power Bank 20000mAh Support PD3.0 Protokoll wird untersttzt.
Mit o.a. Powerbank funktioniert der PC einwandfrei. Bis jetzt 4 Stunden 50 % entladen.
Der USB C Anschlu ist PD3.0 12 Volt, nicht 5 Volt. Wrde nicht funktionieren. In der Gebrauchs-
anweisung ist es auch so beschrieben.

(Update not mentioned in the earlier review): Two of the larger USB3 A ports are actually 3.1/3.2 Gen 2, ie 10Gbs per second, not 5, with the third and the USB-C being 5Gbps! This is not mentioned on the advert, but a definate bonus!

This is a long review, party because I have noticed there is very little independent reviews on this particular version of the device on the broader internet (There are plenty for its earlier brother the Quieter 3Q, but very little for the Quieter 3C, which is the model I have). The 3C swaps one of the full size USB ports for a USB-C port ( 3.1/3.2 Gen 1 5Mbs) with DP and Power Delivery (can be powered by a PD USB power supply, power bank, or monitor/hub), and replaces one of the HMDI with a mini DP port. It can also drive three screens at the same time(HDMI, DP and USB-C) unlike the 3Q which can only drive 2 with its two HDMI ports.
Firstly, one of the very few external interviews suggest that their version of the 3C is slower than the 3Q (though they did have a pre release version). In my tests, and comparing with a friends 3Q, I didn’t see any difference in performance between the two practically (caveats later).
I purchased this device as a “second low power mini – PC” to use as an alternative to my Main Ryzen based PC, which whilst extremely powerful for gaming and productivity, uses a heap of power even when idle, or just browsing the web, and sometimes doubles up as a space heater.
I needed something small yet not a laptop for space reasons. It needed to be able to do Web browsing, watch You Tube, run office, and other “Home admin” tasks, yet still be capable enough to run some offline astronomy related analysis overnight.
Physical:
The device is small and very sleek, as can be seen from the description, its shape is a smaller than a large smartphone (such as the Note 10, or iPhone pro) and about as thick as a Tape Cassette case. Although the outer case is plastic, rather than metal (there is a steel frame inside) the “plastic seems to be made of a material that can dissipate heat well, far better than it looks on paper, though probably not as good as metal, however, the plastic does allow the internal antennae to work well. The top surface is ridged (it doesn’t have any holes, despite what it looks like in pictures) which does increase the surface area.

CPU:
The 4 core Celeron N5105 is not going to win any performance crowns, but it’s definitely more than ample for running Office, Chrome, Firefox and the usual medley of non-demanding apps, and even some less demanding games. It doesn’t feel sluggish in normal use. It’s definitely more powerful and yet more efficient overall than the J4125 usually found on these mini PCS. It handles 1080p videos extremely well. 4k can vary depending on the source, and I find most 30fps SDR streams play fine, but when you hit 60fps and HDR, some sources such as YouTube struggle, whilst many of my 4k HDR demo files in H265 seems to be fine.
Internal eMMC Storage:
Its internal eMMC is no way near as fast as an NVMe drive, and benchmarks slower than a SATA 3 SSD (more closer to a SATA2 interface I would suspect), but it is very power efficient, and in practise, with most applications its snappy enough. You CAN fit an NVMe drive into it (though bear in mind its PCIe 3, and only 2 channel, so no point putting in a super-fast super power hungry and super expensive PCIe 4 inside), and bear in mind that it will slightly increase the power usage.
Memory
It’s has 8GB Single Channel 2900 Mhz LPDDR4, soldered in and not upgradable. Not a lot, and may not benchmark highly but more than enough for its use case.
OS:
It comes with a very clean full version of Windows 11 Professional (not home), that does not have any bloatware installed just plain Windows, and surprisingly comes with a sensible OOBE experience with a lot of “default” windows phone home stuff disabled, including the requirement for a Microsoft account! It certainly does seem quite clean, with no “value added store apps”, I have checked for malware as well as any unusual network connections). I did blank and reinstall Windows as I wanted a clean H22 install, and found the “default” Microsoft experience as slightly worse in terms of the requirement for a Microsoft account, and additional MS store apps added like Microsoft Solitaire! The BIOS correctly contained the OEM license for Windows 11 Professional, and therefore the installer did not ask for the product key.

I have installed Linux MINT in a dual boot config with GRUB and it worked fine. It doesn’t default to Secure Boot (though can be enabled if desired)

BIOS:
Biggest Surprise, it’s a fully featured Bios with almost everything but the Kitchen sink in terms of settings and configuration. You could tweak this a lot, though the CPU does not offer much overclocking capabilities, and the hardware does have some protection to avoid some settings. Be very careful, as I don’t see any way of clearing the CMOS easily if a wrong setting locks up the POST.

Cooling:
This is passively cooled. As such it does get quite warm and under load can get very warm, though not too hot to touch. Under normal use (streaming, web, office). I have not seen any Thermal throttling from the CPU (using HWInfo). Under continuous sustained and heavy load the CPU package can reach 73+, which is still below the CPU thermal throttling, but the hardware may induce some power Throttling at this point as I see the CPU switch from boost 10W to 8W a little quicker (about 20 seconds) under sustained load than some other computers with the same CPU, regardless of thermals. However, I have not observed any runaway heat. I have tried placing a large finned aluminium heatsink and fan on top of the unit, and that did drop the temps significantly under heavy continuous load, but I don’t think it’s necessary for normal use cases. Also note it is possible to play around with PL1/PL2 and boost times in the BIOS, which you might want to try at your own risk as long as you have adequate cooling.

Power Usage:
Using my Macbook Pro USB C power supply, I have a USB Ccable that can tell you the current power consumption via a small LED display on the Cable. It measured 3 Watts on idle, and 13 Watts under load, very respectable figures and is perfect for my use cases This is with 2 screens and the built in eMMC drive (no NVMe installed)

Conclusion:
A surprisingly good, reliable Mini Computer that is quiet and sleek, with Windows 11 Professional and no bloatware! Not the most powerful and not the most featured, but great for many people who need a PC for web/office/streaming, to hide out of sight.
I would have given it 5 stars, but I do feel it’s a little expensive for what it is, so giving it four stars, though its really more of a 4 and a half stars.

I am a fanless pc expert and i purchased this to trial it. Just done all the updates that happen with a new computer, which took a while, hours. But, so far, brilliant. Responsive, and best of all runs on almost no electricity. I am using it with a lenovo m14T touch screen via usb C port. Perfect, i now have a low powered electronic note book. I used samsung notes as the notes app, to sync with my samsung notes. So small. so functional. Cheap. No noise. recommend so far.

Using it as media PC plugged into my TV and it works perfectly

Easy to use came with windows 11pro uninstall I fitted another ssd storage loaded the windows record image on to usb changed the script from Emmac to Ssd and windows 11 boot off the 512gb ssd storage and now I dual boot with Ubuntu 22.04 great works well. I am very please.

I’ve owned 2 of the older Quieter2 computers for awhile now and been quiet happy with them. The Quieter3Q is pretty much the exact same only with a significantly beefier processor. While not a gaming computer by any definition it does handle Minecraft surprisingly well, aside from a slightly long initial loading screen. Overall exceedingly happy with the system.

Bought this to replace an AMD A6 that broke down. This is really impressive for the sub 200 price especially with the new Celeron chip. It will handle Xbox cloud gaming and much much better than my old PC did, it’s pretty useful for retro gaming. It will handle 4K 60fps no problem in video playback and the system feels very snappy.

Only concern is that the top of system box will run hot. Great for winter as an extra heat source, not so good when it’s a hot summer’s day.

Would recommend and totally love the portable small factor which means it can be taken anywhere.

Bought this to replace an AMD A6 that broke down. This is really impressive for the sub 200 price especially with the new Celeron chip. It will handle Xbox cloud gaming and much much better than my old PC did, it’s pretty useful for retro gaming. It will handle 4K 60fps no problem in video playback and the system feels very snappy.

Only concern is that the top of system box will run hot. Great for winter as an extra heat source, not so good when it’s a hot summer’s day.

Would recommend and totally love the portable small factor which means it can be taken anywhere.

This pc is absolutely amazing. Really small so can be taken around and attached to whatever hdmi (hotel conferences etc). Also fanless so no noise whatsoever is produced, though the power supply is occasionally a bit squeaky. The upgrade from the previous model is noticeable, the CPU is more powerful and has a much better integrated graphics and the ram is faster, though still single channel.

For its size, this computer handles Microsoft office very well and executes excel algorithms very efficiently,
It,s well worth the price.

Extremely pleased with purchase. I usually wouldn’t consider a Celeron PC but I took a chance on the N5105 being one of the latest generation and after checking reviews of this box. I am more that happy with its performance. It runs just as well as any older PC I have with 7th Gen i3/i5 processor. Windows 11 ( 21H2 ) runs very smooth. The 8GB of RAM although not upgradable is sufficient. The system is barely pushed even when I tried to over test to limit. CPU & RAM performance are steady producing minimal heat from the box. There are more than enough ports with the dual monitor output thru HDMI a bonus. HD graphics are good & PC handles streaming well. Once I was happy that it wasn’t a pig in a poke I upgraded with 1TB NVMe drive & Bluetooth KB & mouse set. A tidy little PC packed with same outputs as a standard desktop yet with tiny footprint. It looks great when you do notice it sitting on the desk, as there is not a sound out of it. Excellent value, great price if you just want to upgrade to a standard Windows 11 pro workstation for basic office work internet etc.

Extremely pleased with purchase. I usually wouldn’t consider a Celeron PC but I took a chance on the N5105 being one of the latest generation and after checking reviews of this box. I am more that happy with its performance. It runs just as well as any older PC I have with 7th Gen i3/i5 processor. Windows 11 ( 21H2 ) runs very smooth. The 8GB of RAM although not upgradable is sufficient. The system is barely pushed even when I tried to over test to limit. CPU & RAM performance are steady producing minimal heat from the box. There are more than enough ports with the dual monitor output thru HDMI a bonus. HD graphics are good & PC handles streaming well. Once I was happy that it wasn’t a pig in a poke I upgraded with 1TB NVMe drive & Bluetooth KB & mouse set. A tidy little PC packed with same outputs as a standard desktop yet with tiny footprint. It looks great when you do notice it sitting on the desk, as there is not a sound out of it. Excellent value, great price if you just want to upgrade to a standard Windows 11 pro workstation for basic office work internet etc.

Bought this for silent web browsing and daw-usage. It’s not the fastest machine out there, but the silence and form factor make up for that. Memory is single channel which hurts the gpu performance so gaming is mostly out of the question. But for every day tasks it gets the job done if you don’t expect blazing fast response.

Under high load the chassis may get little warm to touch, but I haven’t seen any throttling. I actually attached it to my electric table’s metal leg which works as extra heat sink and temperatures rarely exceed 60 c.

Haven’t tested the SD card slot yet.

I spent a lot of time looking for a mini-PC that was ideal for controlling my telescope. This one seemed to fit the bill.

I’ve now been using it for a while and it works really well.

* Controls all my kit via its built-in USB ports (Mount via EQDIR, main imaging camera, filter wheel, guiding camera, auto-focusser)

* Runs at about 35 degrees C … I was worried about how hot it might get, but perfect for an outdoors telescope control computer.

* The N5105 processor combined with Windows 11 Pro makes it very snappy in general use. All my astrophotography software works very smoothly and I can do email/watch videos etc via remote desktop with no problems.

* Wifi in my back garden works well and consistently gives me more than 10MB/s using a wifi extender in my garage.

I would happily use this as a general day-to-day PC in my office, but am even happier having it as the brains of my backyard telescope 🙂

Wer den Mini PC jetzt kauft und auf Windows 11 updaten will, sollte keine Update fahren sondern Windows 11 neu installieren. Das Update dauert ca. 3,5 Stunden, das initiale Setup war dagegen schnell erledigt.
Der USB-C Anschluss ist nur eine Buchse, weder das Netzteil noch der Anschluss wissen etwas von USB-C oder USB-PD. Man kann spter kein Standard USB-C/PD Netzteil verwenden, warum hat man hier gemurkst?
Wake on Lan funktioniert bei mir nicht – Exemplar Fehler?
Die Leistung ist fr die CPU und Speicher hervorragend. Der Energieverbrauch unter Windows (idle) 3,2 Watt und unter debian 11 (idle) 2,8 Watt.
Fr debian braucht man “non-free” Firmware (firmware-linux-nonfree firmware-realtek firmware-iwlwifi) Das Setup luft aber auch erstmal ohne diese durch.

Ok, so if you like Windows this is a fine little box, however if you prefer a proper OS then grab a usb stick, download Fedora 35 live image, insert the USB stick in the USB port, fire up the machine and hit delete a couple of times. This will take you to the BIOS, in the BIOS navigate to boot options and replace windows with USB at the top of the boot order. The machine will boot from the USB device, select run Fedora Live and the little box will boot from the USB stick straight into Fedora 35. Now I dont suggest you wipe out the Windows install, so you can run Fedora straight from the USB stick or install an M2 NVME SSD, up to 2TB drives are supported. There are some nice Western Digital fast SSD M2 NVME drives available on Amazon, I went for a 500GB drive as it seemed to provide the best value for money. Once installed (there are plenty of vids on youtube to help you here) you can install Fedora straight to the M2 drive and dont forget to change your boot order in the BIOS. In terms of supported drivers everything worked fine on first boot with Fedora 35, wireless was faultless and sound worked like a dream, power management was superb as well. Everything you need for a Linux desktop. I have not tried 4K yet but I hope this helps. Its a great little system for the money.

I really like this. It’s tiny and passively cooled so well suited if you need something that can just disappear such as in a media system.

In my day job I mainly work on a Mac and have a desktop that’s usually booted into Linux so this is great to have a Windows machine on hand. That said, I generally have it booted into Ubuntu Linux. It was a bit of a pain to get it to boot but there was plenty of information online and it mainly required a couple of settings changes in the bios. I shouldn’t, but I keep this turned on permanently and in Linux it’s been perfectly stable.

It does have a USB-C connector for power but it would be nice to have a second one.

At 128GB it’s a pretty small drive but it does have a micro SD slot so that’s not such a big issue.

With the VESA mount it can also be mounted cleanly to the back of a monitor.

I was prepared to be disappointed.

I imagined this machine would be a tortuously slow, but it’s actually reasonably fast.

I’m using this box to play videos on a TV. I’m experiencing no latency and the video quality at 4K is excellent. I love the fact that it’s silent!

I think it’s perfectly good for a wide range of basic uses, such as text editing, emailing, etc. It would obviously NOT be good for more processor intensive tasks.

The case doesn’t get extremely hot, but you’ll want to put it in a place where it gets air flow. (I wouldn’t stuff it in a drawer or in a place where it gets direct sunlight.)

I am a software developer, but I wanted something everyone in the home could use so I was concerned this would be finicky to use. It stays on all the time and just works. It fits the bill perfectly.

I’ve only run this for a few days, so I can’t verify its durability. But I’ll be sure to update this review of it craps out.

When I first got this, I was really surprised by how small it was. I’m a big fan of mini PC’s and I already have two Intel NUC mini PC’s that I love. This mini PC is even smaller than my NUC’s, I mean it’s a little wider but it’s smaller in every other dimension. The metal case looks and feels great, it also works as the heatsink which means this doesn’t need and fan and is therefore completely silent. Depending on your needs you can install a speedy and larger M.2 SSD but if you’re using it as a server like me you probably won’t need it. To access my server I just remote into using RDP but I did connect it to my TV and had no issues watching videos in 4K. Performance wise it’s more than acceptable for general use, obviously gaming is a NO NO but general productivity apps are fine and you can easily watch 4K videos and therefore it would make a decent a Plex server. At the end of the day, there’s hundreds of things you could use this for, it would also be great for attaching to the back of a monitor to make your own all in one PC.

Ho acquistato questo Mini Pc in quanto fanless, che fosse grande quanto un pacchetto di sigarette non mi interessava, ma un vanto tecnologico avere un processore abbastanza potente per lavori Office in cos poco spazio (ho liberato una scrivania intera…). Mi interessava l’assenza di rumore, ed eccezionale questo mini pc, molto reattivo, silenzioso ovviamente in quanto fanless, anche se scalda un p l’involucro. Sono molto soddisfatto dell’acquisto ma non “assolutamente” soddisfatto in quanto, data la dimensione del pc, e la staffetta vesa in dotazione, pu essere installato dietro al monitor, in modo da scomparire proprio dalla scrivania, ma ho scoperto che il bios non contempla l’accensione da tastiera, sia a cavo che wireless, come mi ha confermato l’assistenza tecnica subito contattata. Questo un vero peccato in quanto, collocato dietro al monitor, staffato al muro, per accenderlo devo tirare fuori il monitor e cercare il pulsantino. Cosa abbastanza scomoda, quando altri minipc che uso, contemplano l’accensione da tastiera anche wireless. Si consiglia vivamente il produttore di provvedere al prossimo aggiornamento di Bios ed allora il pc diventa superlativo.