MINISFORUM DEG1 External GPU Dock Station, Mini eGPU Enclosure for RTX 4090, AMD RX 7900 XTX, Support ATX/SFX Standard Power Supplies, PCIe4.0 x4 Expansion Interface Oculink Graphics Dock Station

When looking for an upgrade, like going from slow thunderbolt/usb 4 to much faster oculink, you'd expect to pay more. Like I think I paid 150 for my tb dock. This was less. And it was easy. And it just works. Plugged in the cable after using my sfx power supply and the little arm thing for the card stand, and blammo. I didn't even have to go into the bios. Better, it worked with Linux. And I legit didn't have to do anything but connect everything up. I'm still on that first boot. Having your card in a dock is a luxury. It runs cooler, and you can get at it if you want to swap it out, upgrade it, or it locks up. I like to run a cable for the external card, and one for the internal in the pc so I can swap between them. On Linux it means I don't have to reboot if the 7900XT has issues. I can fall back to onboard graphics, fix it, then resume. That's very convenient. It also means I can swap out my system/card at will. Oculink is awesome if you game at 60fps. You won't see much performance falloff unless you are doing insane fps 1080p gaming. Great product minisforum.

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Love this Dock. I have paired a rx 7800xt with my mini pc and it works great. With a minisforum mini pc I just turn on the pc and the dock will self start as long as your power supply is on.

Great for saving power and keeping things cooler. I put guitar pickup foam in the corners to keep sound vibrations off the slots, and kept the card secure with the mounting bracket. It’s great I’ll be able to upgrade the card or mini pc independently too. I can turn this all off and use dedicated soundcards in music studio or use the oculink port for high speed hard disk. It introduced minimal/zero latency it’s basically no different from the sata cable connecting gpus to board anyway. It will run max settings in most games.

I’ve had the MINISFORUM DEG1 External GPU Dock Station connected to a MINISFORUM MS-A1 Workstation (Ryzen 9 9950x) for over a month. I’m using an ASUS Tuff RTX 5070 Ti with an ASRock 1000w power supply. Setting up the dock was straightforward with no issues. The dock boots when the computer power switch is pressed, easy to live with. Is it worth it? Well-ll, probably not. The system works well, but I get faster GPU processing speeds with the 5070 Ti in a desktop case via the PCIe slot on the motherboard. Part of the problem is the MINISFORUM mini 9950x system; its lack of adequate cooling throttles the Ryzen 9950x CPU. And it’s hard to review the docking station without considering the MINISFORUM computer to go with it. The total cost for this system priced out at $2200. As a price comparison, Amazon in the last month sold an HP 45L gaming desktop with an Intel 7 265K and a Nvidia RTX 5070 for $1399. Despite having a lesser CPU and GPU, the HP handily out does the MINISFORUM computer and dock with the 5070 Ti combination. In the end, the MINISFORUM dock satisfied my nerd curiosity. Yes, it works with no problems. However, unless a person already has the MINISFORUM computer, I think one can do better for the price, then purchase the docking station and GPU and power supply.