Minisforum announces a "dock" for external GPUs with PCIe Gen 4 x4

The Chinese company Minisforun has announced its Minisforum DEG1a “Case“external for graphics card with a direct exchange price of about 92.5 euros (99 dollars). We put casing in quotes because it really is a kind of base with a PCI Express 4.0 x16 port but with only 4 active lines (PCIe Gen 4 x4) and a 24-pin ATX connector for power supplies in that format or SFX. Therefore, in this model We do not have integrated source.

As it is not a standard case, we have no size limit, so we can fit large format graphics cards, including AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

For connectivity with the host PC, it uses OcuLink, a port with a bandwidth of 64 Gbps that, although it may be sufficient for mid-range models, It represents a loss of performance with high-end graphics cards like the RTX 4090. These performance losses in these ranges are common, however, in external graphics cards and that is why the PCI Express port, although it is X16 in size, only has 4 active lines.

A chip with signal amplification is integrated to improve stability. At the moment, it seems that it is not available and appears out of stock on the US website. Minisforum.

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